Cloudberry Ventures

Profile

Cloudberry Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm founded by Mahir Sahin, a former senior executive at Google who advised Alphabet's Moonshot X Factory. The team includes Mahir Sahin as General Partner and advisors such as Ehsanul Islam from Qualcomm, Scott Beaumont from Google, and several others with diverse expertise in deep tech and global markets. Their unique focus on deeptech, backed by significant industry expertise makes them distinctive among venture capitalists.

Cloudberry Ventures invests in deeptech startups at the Seed to Series A stages, focusing on industrial, compute, and financial infrastructure. With checks ranging from €1M to €2M, they cover geographies globally with a particular focus on European sourcing. The new €50M fund, DeepTech Fund, follows a predecessor vehicle with an 86% gross IRR. They have strategic backing from LPs including top individuals from Google and Qualcomm.

Notable investments under Cloudberry Ventures include Quantum Brilliance, specializing in quantum computing, Xavveo, known for its work in photonics radar for robotics, and others such as Syntiant Corp., Belfort, and Fisent Technologies. These investments reflect their three-pillar strategy focusing on foundational technologies in infrastructure.