Filip Dames

Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures

Berlin Metropolitan Area

Overview

Filip Dames is an accomplished entrepreneur and the Founding Partner of Cherry Ventures, a venture capital firm in the Berlin Metropolitan Area. With a background that includes co-founding Zalando SE and investing in successful startups like Morressier and HOLOGATE, Filip has a proven track record in business development, e-commerce, and strategic partnerships.

Work Experience

Cherry Ventures

Founding Partner
2013 - Current
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund founded and led by former entrepreneurs and focusing on European seed-stage companies in B2B and B2C. Cherry invests at pre-seed- and seed-stage with initial tickets between €500k and €5M. Cherry’s partners have been involved in building companies like Zalando and Spotify and the fund has previously been among the first backers of Auto1, Flixbus, Flaschenpost, Infarm, Forto, Rekki, AMBOSS, Flink, SellerX and many others. -> More on http://www.cherry.vc

Zalando SE

C-Level / Co-Founder
2009 - 2014
Leading the company's business development including internationalization and new ventures. Led Zalando's product strategy incl. apps/mobile.
Founder & CEO
2009 - 2012
Founder / CEO of Zalando-Lounge