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January 20, 2022

Flink and SellerX backer Cherry Ventures launches €300m seed fund for European startups

With 14 new companies added to the Cherry portfolio last year, we’ve rounded up the funds ‘soonicorns.'


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Berlin-based VC firm Cherry Ventures, best known for backing companies like Auto1 and Flaschenpost, and newer unicorns such as Flink and Seller X, has just launched a €300m seed fund for European startups.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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