Christian Meermann

Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures · Joined 2012

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Biography

Christian Meermann is a Founding Partner of Cherry Ventures, the Berlin seed firm he co-founded in 2012 with Filip Dames. Before Cherry he was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group and then Chief Marketing Officer at Zalando, where his firm bio says he helped grow the company to more than 2 billion euros in revenue at IPO with 250 million euros of annual marketing spend across 15 European markets. He studied in Germany, the United States and Brazil, invests in B2B software and consumer companies, and his Cherry bio names Flix, Forto, Tacto, Qualifyze, dash0, Manual, Numa and flaschenpost among his investments. He entered the Forbes Midas List Europe at number 24 in 2023 and is a guest lecturer at WHU and CDTM Munich.

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

dash0TactoflaschenpostFlixFortoQualifyzeManualNumaJulienne Bruno

Career Timeline

2012
Co-founded Cherry Ventures in Berlin with Filip Dames, starting first as an angel fund.
2022
Was quoted as founding partner on Cherry Ventures' lead investment in Tacto's 5.3 million euro round.
2023
Made his debut on the Forbes Midas List Europe at number 24.
2025
Was quoted as the Cherry Ventures partner on Dash0's $35 million Series A, which Cherry co-led with Accel.

Sources & References

Cherry Ventures - Christian Meermann ↗Cherry Ventures - Our team ↗Cherry Ventures - About ↗Forbes - Christian Meermann profile ↗Dash0 - Dash0 Raises $35 Million Series A ↗Tech.eu - Munich-based Tacto procures EUR 5.3 million ↗