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Morris Clay

Partner at Lunar Ventures

Berlin, Berlin

Overview 

Morris Clay is a Partner at Lunar Ventures, a Deep Tech VC firm specializing in pre-seed and seed investments in software infrastructure, cloud-native, AI/ML, data infra, and developer tools. Prior to his role in VC, Morris has excelled as an entrepreneur, CTO, venture builder, and analyst, showcasing a strong background in innovation management and entrepreneurship. Highlights of Morris Clay's career include his transition from entrepreneur and CTO to becoming a successful Partner at Lunar Ventures, where he focuses on investing in cutting-edge technologies such as DeepTech and developer tools, demonstrating his expertise in identifying and nurturing high-potential startups.

Work Experience 

  • Partner, Data Platform Lead

    2022 - Current

    Backing teams working on ml, developer-tools, cloud infrastructure, open-source & hard computer science problems. Developing and running our data driven vc stack.

  • Investor, Lead Engineer

    2021 - 2022

  • Investor

    2022

Serverless cloud hosting for multiplayer games

Raised $7,600,000.00 from Acequia Capital (AceCap), Liquid 2 Ventures, Lunar Ventures, Founders Fund, Upfront Ventures and Brandi House.

  • Investor

    2022

  • Investor

    2024

A modern data pipelining library focused on composability, portability, and performance.

  • Investor

    2022

The Best LLM on Every Prompt

Raised $8,000,000.00 from Orange Collective, J12, Duro Ventures, Capitalize VC, Firestreak Ventures, Christopher Golda, Essence VC, Capital X, A.Capital Ventures and Samsung NEXT.

  • Investor

    2023

  • Investor

    2022

  • Investor

    2023

  • Investor

    2022

Flipt is a provider of an open source feature flag solution.

  • Research Sabbatical

    2020 - 2021

    Para-academic research at the intersection of technology, ecology and risk management practices.

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