Lunar Ventures is a European pre-seed deep-tech venture fund that backs software and computer-science startups across machine learning, cryptography, cloud infrastructure, and next-generation databases. Lunar Ventures's Twitter Score is 5.5 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #169,929 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Lunar Ventures was co-founded by Dr. Elad Verbin, Mick Halsband, and Luis Shemtov. The fund closed its debut vehicle at €40 million in October 2021, with backing from Isomer Capital, European Investment Fund, Multiple Capital, Aldea Ventures, and Compagnia di San Paolo. At launch, the fund indicated it would deploy up to €1 million per early-stage company.
Lunar Ventures's stated focus areas span privacy-enhancing technologies, AI infrastructure, data infrastructure, tech bio, science plus machine learning, robotics, and new space. The fund has described itself as an early backer of Zama, a homomorphic-encryption company building technology for AI and blockchain applications, and has also invested in Molecule, a decentralized-science project built on the Ethereum blockchain.
Lunar Ventures's fund portfolio includes Molecule and Samudai. Lunar Ventures has published 1,273 posts on the platform. Lunar Ventures has been mentioned by 15 accounts, totaling 23 mentions.
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The accounts that follow Lunar Ventures include 32 founders, 10 angel investors, 7 influencers and 3 VCs. Among them are Matthew Graham, Michael Bentley, Outlier Ventures, Maya Zehavi, Zama and Paul Kohlhaas Bioacc.