# Top 50 Startup Investors in Greece in May 2026 ## VentureFriends - Type: VC Fund - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 28 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce We are an early stage investor investing in Seed and Series A startups. ## Openfund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 27 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Travel, E-Commerce Openfund is a new seed capital venture, focusing on start-ups around software, mobile and the web. Based in Athens, Greece, the Openfund brings together an exceptional team of executives, an extensive list of advisors and a number of passionate investors to provide everything a team of entrepreneurs needs to turn ideas into products and success. ## Uni.Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 19 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Analytics, Big Data, SaaS MAKE IT HAPPEN ## Metavallon VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care Metavallon VC focuses on early stage (Pre-Seed and Seed) investments across sectors in Greece and Europe. With an affinity for B2B models, deep technology, and strong ties with Greece, we back pioneering teams and work alongside ambitious entrepreneurs operating at the forefront of business and technology innovation. ## Velocity.Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Automotive Our mission is to fuel Greek entrepreneurs around the globe build world-class technology companies ## Genesis Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence Making early-stage founders successful globally. A coaching and angel investment platform for early-stage startups. ## Marathon Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning Marathon Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund on a mission to help the most ambitious Greek founders build world-class technology companies. Marathon caters to those who are willing to go after the seemingly impossible. Those who persevere in the face of adversity. The ones who will ultimately get to redefine entire industries.Marathon's team has built communities and companies from the ground up, and loves to collaborate with like-minded people taking on big challenges. Marathon partners’ track record includes Bugsense, Taxibeat, Workable and Resin.io, among others.Marathon is leading seed rounds (typically with €1m - €1.5m for 15-20% of equity) and judges its performance on the basis of top investors joining to follow up.Marathon stands for limitless ambition, uncompromising integrity, radical openness and giving back to the community. Marathon is a long-term venture that is just getting started. ## LAUNCHub Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software LAUNCHUB is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe. ## TECS Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Thessaloníki, Thessaloniki, Greece - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Analytics, Energy A Venture Capital Fund investing in early stage in companies with industry 4.0 technologies ## Melih Odemis - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally. ## Zeno Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce Focusing on socially impactful projects in Greece that are striving towards Zero Waste and Zero Emissions. ## Apostolos Apostolakis - Type: Angel - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps Apostolos is a serial entrepreneur turned investor. He started his career at Boston Consulting Group where he spent 2 years consulting businesses. On his entrepreneurial path, he has co-founded e-shop.gr, Openfund, e-food, doctoranytime and was a key investor in Taxibeat. Since 2010 he has invested and supported a large number of startups with afocus on e-marketplaces and SaaS. He studied civil engineering at NTUA and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School. ## Simanta Das - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Apps, Education Simanta Das is a Managing Partner at Stalhmarg and Founder of Rising Stars Ventures. ## Eleven Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe. ## Mathias Kamprad - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace Mathias Kamprad ## 468 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology 468 Capital is a Berlin and San Francisco based technology investment firm. We support leading software, AI and internet growth companies across multiple investment stages. ## Market One Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce Market One Capital | Seed fund empowering marketplaces and network effects platforms across Europe ## Dimitrios Kourtesis - Type: Angel - Location: Thessaloníki, Thessaloniki, Greece - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Video, Software, Marketing Dimitrios Kourtsis is the External Expert (Technical Consultant), Joint Research Centre at European Commission. Attended The University of Sheffield. ## FJ Labs - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups. ## HCVC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events. ## Bashar Hamood - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges. ## Global Founders Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel. ## Sophia Bendz - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Apps Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures ## Jason Manolopoulos - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Rental, Internet, Automotive Jason has over 24 years of investing experience with a focus on emerging markets, both in investment banks and fund managers. Jason co-founded the fund management company Dromeus Capital in April 2008 and served as Chief Investment Officer and member of its Executive and Investment Committees. He is an active mentor of the start-up community,advising many Greek start-ups. His start-up investment activity began in 2010. ## Hesham Zreik - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish. Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups. During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded: - co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components. - invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content. - invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization - invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered. - invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer - invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators. - invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV - He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS. ## John Tsioris - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Travel, Internet, Blockchain John Tsioris is the CEO at InstaShop. ## ETF Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations, and family offices. The firm creates value by investing in and supporting great European companies that deliver Sustainability Through Innovation. ## Panos Papadopoulos - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things Panos is a technology and product focused entrepreneur who loves to build things solve real problems. He is also an active investor & advisor in startups in USA, UK and Greece in the fields of Mobile, IoT, Identity and FinTech. ## SeedBlink - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS SeedBlink is a platform for startup investments. Invest in startups by having the benefits of crowdfunding, the flexibility of angel investors, and the VC structure. ## Big Pi - Type: VC Fund - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Analytics Big Pi Ventures is a seed-stage technology fund bringing deep connections with the local talent pool and access to prominent businesses. They invest in innovative technology companies starting from Greece, aiming to be leaders in international markets. They also support teams that have developed proprietary technology in software, artificialintelligence, automation, life sciences, or other high-potential science-based fields.Big Pi Ventures was founded in 2017 and is based in Athens, Attiki, Greece. ## Philipp BRINKMANN - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Logistics, Child Care, E-Commerce Philipp Brinkmann is the Consultant to the Management at Ferryscanner. ## Sente Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Technology Sente is a Chicago-based startup investment and innovation platform. Sente searches the world for the most high-potential startups and helps them scale through unprecedented guidance, support, and connections. ## Angel Investment Network - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Angel Investment Network is a London-based investment company founded in 2004 whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs and investors. Today they have 35+ angel networks worldwide covering over 80 countries. They have over 150,000 investor members and over 600,000 entrepreneurs have signed up to use their services. ## Flashpoint - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software Flashpoint is an international technology investment firm that manages venture capital, secondary buy-out and venture debt funds. ## TA Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet TA Ventures is globally-minded and network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Europe and North America shaping the industries of tomorrow. Our ticket size starts from $100k up to $1M. We offer speed of execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. Drawing upon our network, we support our portfoliocompanies by proactively soliciting large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. We utilize our industry knowledge and network to give portfolio companies and partner VCs access to the highly skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing teams in Central and Eastern Europe. ## Neogen Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Targu-mures, Mures, Romania - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, B2C We're a venture studio specialised in marketplaces. We build, fund or buy tech companies with impact. ## Placeholder - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology Placeholder is a venture capital firm that invests in decentralized networks and web services. ## George Moundreas - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: SaaS, Banking, FinTech George Moundreas ## Protocol Labs - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency Protocol Labs is building the next generation of the internet. ## Orasis - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: SaaS, Banking, FinTech Fund ## Charge Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Our mission is to partner with exceptional founders at the very inception of their entrepreneurial journey. When others wait, we Charge. ## Alexander Rittweger - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: SaaS, Snack Food, Business Intelligence Alexander Rittweger is a Board Member & Lead Investo at ALOHA. He attended University of Mannheim. ## Insta Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Grocery Insta Ventures is a venture capital firm that has been investing in different IT technology sectors since 2019. Currently, we are looking for tech startups that are in the early stages of development of their products. Our investment team consists of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds in the IT sphere. Our goal is to help ambitiousteams create innovative products, spread them globally, and maintain fast-growing companies.Typically, we invest $100K-500K during a growing stage of a company's lifecycle (seed / late seed / pre-round A), and then help to develop its marketing and sales, as well as prepare the company for the next investment phase.We appreciate co-investments. Let's invest together! ## Hummingbird Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't. ## theDOCK - Type: VC Fund - Location: Haifa, Hefa, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Supply Chain Management, Shipping, Software theDOCK is a Maritime-Tech venture capital firm investing in startups developing technologies for Ports, Shipping and Logistics sectors. ## Mavericks Founders - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Retail, Fitness Mavericks Founders is an Angel syndicate from Berlin, made up of experienced founders. We support entrepreneurs; their great minds and visions. ## Alexandros Chatzieleftheriou - Type: Angel - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Real Estate, Property Management Alex Chatzieleftheriou is the Co-Founder and CEO at Blueground. ## Acasia Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages. ## Metaplanet Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning an early-stage investment firm making long-term bets on contrarians and leveraging the knowledge and network across sectors. We back mission-driven founders working on positively disruptive deep technologies. ## Lars Rasmussen - Type: Angel - Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Apps, Video Lars Rasmussen is a co-founder and 'Chief Espresso Officer' at Weav Music, Inc in Brooklyn, New York. Formerly, he was a director of engineer at Facebook London where he headed up the Facebook Workplace team. Formerly, he was a member of Google's technical staff, based in the Sydney office, and with his brother the # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co