Luc de Leyritz

We built the first wave of European tech. We know what it takes to back the next. With offices in Berlin, London, and Stockholm, Cherry Ventures is Europes leading early-stage venture firm championing founders who are poised to solve the most critical issues in society, environment and business. Cherrys portfolio of European founders changes customer behaviour, enables enterprises and SMEs, drives impact and sustainability, and empowers developers and creators, having previously led the early-stage rounds of companies like FlixBus, Auto1, Forto, Tacto, Qualifyze, Juni, Moss, Carbo Culture, and more.

We built the first wave of European tech. We know what it takes to back the next. With offices in Berlin, London, and Stockholm, Cherry Ventures is Europes leading early-stage venture firm championing founders who are poised to solve the most critical issues in society, environment and business. Cherrys portfolio of European founders changes customer behaviour, enables enterprises and SMEs, drives impact and sustainability, and empowers developers and creators, having previously led the early-stage rounds of companies like FlixBus, Auto1, Forto, Tacto, Qualifyze, Juni, Moss, Carbo Culture, and more.

Project A is a leading European early-stage investor with €1.2b AUM, championing ambitious tech founders from idea to scale. We provide pre-seed and seed capital to firms shaping Europes future across key themes including Fintech, European Resilience, Global Supply Chains, and the Future of Autonomous Work. Our portfolio features category leaders such as Trade Republic, Sennder, Zepz, and Quantum Systems. In addition, our founder-led Studio actively partners with ventures like 11x, ARX Robotics, and Enapi to shape and validate bold ideas from day zero.

The CEA is the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission ("Commissariat à lénergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives"​). It is a public body established in October 1945 by General de Gaulle. A leader in research, development and innovation, the CEA mission statement has two main objectives: To become the leading technological research organization in Europe and to ensure that the nuclear deterrent remains effective in the future. The CEA is active in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. In each of these fields, the CEA maintains a cross-disciplinary culture of engineers and researchers, building on the synergies between fundamental and technological research. The civilian programs of the CEA received 49% of their funding from the French government, and 30% from external sources (partner companies and the European Union). The CEA had a budget of 4,3 billion euros. The CEA is based in ten research centers in France, each specializing in specific fields. The laboratories are located in the Paris region, the Rhône-Alpes, the Rhône valley, the Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur region, Aquitaine, Central France and Burgundy. The CEA benefits from the strong regional identities of these laboratories and the partnerships forged with other research centers, local authorities and universities.