Cherry Ventures

Early-stage European startup investor
Last updated:
January 5, 2026
Company details
HQ
London, UK
HEADCOUNT
25-99
ORG TYPE
Corporate
SECTOR
Finance
About the company
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in European startups, often as a first institutional investor. Cherry Ventures backs founders from seed onwards and supports portfolio companies beyond capital through recruiting and operational help. Cherry Ventures invests across sectors, with a broad “industry-curious” approach. Cherry Ventures was founded in 2012 and operates as a pan-European firm.
Locations and presence
Cherry Ventures has teams and offices in Berlin, London, and Stockholm. Cherry Ventures hiring is office-led for many roles, including explicitly on-site roles in Berlin, alongside regular in-person expectations for investment internships based in Berlin.
Palpable Score
57.3
/ 100
Cherry Ventures offers a real, practical entry point through investment internships, but early-career access is limited by the small team size and a job mix that skews experienced. Cherry Ventures has some structured hiring elements like screening tests and case studies, yet public candidate feedback includes ghosting and long silences after time-consuming steps. The score is capped by thin, public outcome evidence on conversion, promotion, and retention for early-career hires.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

13.3
/ 20
  • The company has recruited investment team interns in Berlin for a January 2026 start with a minimum 3-month duration, which is a genuine early-career entry point into the core investing function.
  • Cherry Ventures primarily advertises experienced roles on the firm’s own job board, and even “Analyst” investment roles are framed around prior experience rather than first-job entry.
  • The company’s public hiring footprint also channels many candidates toward portfolio-company roles via the Cherry talent board, which is useful for graduates but does not increase direct entry-level volume into Cherry Ventures itself.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

10.5
/ 20
  • The company has candidate-reported hiring steps that include CV screening, a TestGorilla assessment, and a case study, which signals a repeatable structure rather than a single informal chat.
  • Cherry Ventures has public interview reports that describe candidates not hearing back after interviews or after submitting a case study, which is a direct negative signal on follow-through and candidate respect.
  • The company includes equal-opportunity language and GDPR data-handling statements in the Greenhouse application flow, but Cherry Ventures does not publish a clear candidate-facing hiring timeline or feedback standard, so expectations stay uncertain.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

13.0
/ 20
  • The company scopes the investment internship around real work, including researching companies, supporting diligence, drafting investment memos, and contributing to internal investment discussions.
  • Cherry Ventures has intern review feedback describing a steep learning curve and flexibility in tasks, which fits a small-team environment where juniors can pick up a wide range quickly.
  • The company does not publish a consistent onboarding, mentorship, or training model for interns or junior hires, so learning support likely depends heavily on who the intern works with.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

9.5
/ 20
  • The company’s own job adverts commonly use “competitive compensation and benefits” language without salary ranges, which limits pay transparency for early-career candidates trying to benchmark offers.
  • Cherry Ventures runs hiring through Greenhouse with standardised application terms and compliance language, but the public job adverts for Cherry Ventures roles do not spell out benefits in a consistent, candidate-comparable way.
  • The company’s small size limits publicly available compensation signals, and there is not enough reliable public data to judge whether early-career pay is market-aligned across roles.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

11.0
/ 20
  • The company has a small set of employee and intern reviews that are positive on learning and team environment, suggesting some early-career hires leave with stronger skills and a stronger network.
  • Cherry Ventures explicitly hires for “high-performance” environments and “high expectations for quality, ownership, and speed” in internal roles, which can accelerate growth but can also make early-career sustainability more role-dependent.
  • The company does not publish early-career outcomes like internship-to-offer conversion rates, time-to-promotion, or retention by cohort, and the limited volume of public reviews makes outcomes hard to validate at scale.

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