Filip Dames

Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures

Filip is a Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures, a Berlin-based Venture Capital Fund focussing on seed and early-stage technology companies. Before Cherry, Filip founded his first startup in 2008, an online auction site for antiques and collectibles. He then joined the founding team of Zalando as CEO of the group’s shopping-club. Up until 2014, Filip has led Zalando's business development activities including the international expansion as well as the overall product/mobile strategy for all online shops until the IPO. Filip is also an active supporter of the "Ashoka" network, helping founders to start social businesses around the world. He holds a Diploma (MSc.) from WHU-Beisheim School of Management. Filip loves to spend his time around product-focussed companies and has a particular focus on Digital Health, AI, Fintech and "next-gen" retail technology.