Sophia Bendz is a Partner (also titled General Partner) at Cherry Ventures. See portfolio, sector focus and contact routes.
Sophia Bendz is a Partner (also titled General Partner) at Cherry Ventures, where she leverages her background as Spotify’s first Global Marketing Director and her experience creating the Angel Programme at Atomico to support early-stage founders. Her investment thesis focuses on seed-stage to Series A startups across the Nordics and Europe, with particular sector emphasis on Consumer Internet, ClimateTech/CleanTech, MarketingTech, and Femtech. Bendz is known as a natural seed-stage investor who frequently acts as a lead partner, having led 50 deals and made over 50 angel investments personally. Notable portfolio companies include the fintech Juni, carbon removal startup Carbo Culture, energy storage firm Polarium, and the play-to-earn football developer GOALS, alongside her angel investments in Oura, Manual, and Clue. She is a distinctive voice for diversity in venture capital, co-founding the non-profit AllBright to create a more diverse business sector and ranking as Business Insider’s top seed investor in Europe in 2022. Her public perspective often emphasizes that investing is a “marathon, not a sprint,” urging founders to prioritize rech
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