Cloudberry VC — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($400K–$1.0M Checks)
Cloudberry VC is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Helsinki, Finland investing in Deep Tech, AI / ML, Security. The firm typically writes $400K–$1.0M checks and has 13 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $400K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 13 companies on record
- Partners
- 6 listed
- AUM
- $2B
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Deep Tech, AI / ML, Security, Fintech
- HQ
- Helsinki, Finland
Last verified: 2026-10-26
Pre-Seed, Seed
$400K – $1.0M
$2.0B
13+ companies
6 partners
Investment Thesis
Dedicated early-stage fund backing semiconductors, photonics, and advanced materials. The fund targets foundational deep tech companies and explicitly invests at pre-seed and seed in areas that map closely to materials discovery and failure detection.
How Cloudberry VC invests
Cloudberry VC is a vc firm based in Helsinki, Finland. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Deep Tech, AI / ML, Security, Fintech.
Cloudberry VC typically writes checks of $400K–$1.0M per investment, backed by approximately $2B in assets under management. Our records include 3 funds raised by the firm.
Cloudberry VC has backed 13 companies in our records, including Proteins.1, PROUD, Last Mile Semiconductor.
Partners & Team
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GP
René Kromhof
Founding Partner
Before Cloudberry, René served on the leadership team at Heptagon, a global leader in optical sensors, scaling the company from a handful of employees into a global powerhouse. His tenure culminated in Heptagon's acquisition by ams AG in 2017. He began his career in engineering and product management at ASML.
Veera Pietikäinen
Founding Partner
Veera has nearly a decade of experience supporting early-stage teams and deep tech companies. Since 2019, she has been involved in the deep tech space across investments, portfolio support, legal and fund administration. She has also advised companies as a fractional CFO.
Lawrence Lundy-Bryan
General Partner & Head of Research
Always early to a market opportunity: crypto in 2015 and Deep Tech in 2020. Lawrence believes the greatest opportunity in the next decade is semiconductors. He writes speculative fiction at State of the Future.
Tuomas Hollman
Venture Partner
VP and Head of the Business Area Optics at Bosch Sensortec. 25+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry across IC design, system engineering, product management and full business unit ownership. Previously held senior roles at Texas Instruments and MaxLinear.
Lukas Steinmann
Venture Partner
Based in Zurich and active across Egon Zehnder's Industrial and Technology & AI practice groups. Previously ams Osram AG's SVP and Head of modules and solutions, and VP & Head of Strategy at Heptagon in Singapore.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Funds
Fund III
Fund II
Fund I
Recent Activity
Raised Fund III ($450M)
2023 · fund records
Raised Fund II ($300M)
2021 · fund records
Raised Fund I ($150M)
2019 · fund records
Portfolio Companies (13)
Other
Proteins.1
Proteins.1 is developing a physics-based, enzyme-free multiomics platform to enable single-molecule investigations for health, life, and beyond.
PROUD
PROUD deposits diamond at 400°C, putting the world's best heat conductor right on top of the transistors to break through the thermal wall in advanced chips.
Last Mile Semiconductor
Last Mile Semiconductor is building the first single-chip DECT NR+ radio, a fingernail-sized chip that gives any device 5G-family connectivity with no SIM, no base stations, and years of battery life.
Sofab Inks
Develops specialty chemical inks for perovskite solar cells.
Quantum Dice
Builds a scalable Probabilistic Processing Unit for hard computational problems.
Xavveo
Develops photonic radar and AI perception systems for autonomous vehicles and infrastructure.
Peak Quantum
Develops error-protected superconducting quantum processors.
Rootcause
Provides an autonomous causal intelligence platform for enterprise data.
Belfort Labs
Builds a fully homomorphic encryption accelerator.
Matoha
Makes handheld near-infrared spectrometers with AI for material identification and recycling.
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