Top 10 Retail Startup Investors in Greece in October 2023

Making early-stage founders successful globally. A coaching and angel investment platform for early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Greece, United States, United Kingdom

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Swaplanet — Save up to 90% on children's clothes, by exchanging unused clothes stored in your house. The clothing sector produces 10% of global CO2 emissions (vs. 6% for plastics!!) Help us reduce this and help our planet! Save Money, Save Space, Save The Planet!
Progressive Robotics — Making Robots Smarter
Mood: Music of our desire — Data-driven solutions and innovative products for the music industry.

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Travel, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Greece, United Kingdom, United States

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Goodvidio — Goodvidio is a software service that turns the power of product videos into a conversion optimization tool. It helps ecommerce stores optimize their product pages for conversions by adding curated product videos from social media, to engage shoppers and drive purchases.
100mentors — Your people empowered by GenAI. Ask better questions. Build better prompts.
Welcome Pickups — Book a trusted local driver to pick you up and introduce you to your next destination, pre-order travel essentials.

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

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askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
Metergrid — Metergrid is a developer of SaaS products for specific problems in decentralized energy systems. They offer a market-leading automated cloud solution for the profitable realization, management, and billing of tenant power projects and charging infrastructure.
Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.

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Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

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Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.

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Alexander Rittweger is a Board Member & Lead Investo at ALOHA. He attended University of Mannheim.

Investment focus

SaaS, Snack Food, Business Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Greece, Germany

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GoZayaan — Welcome to GoZayaan, the ultimate online platform for next generation traveling! We aim to put you in charge of your travel plan. Your dream trip is just a few clicks away, with GoZayaan!
ALOHA — Healthy plant-based foods, snacks & meal replacements. Best organic plant based protein bars, shakes and powders. Nothing artificial. Welcome to ALOHA!
Frequenz — Frequenz empowers developers with innovative tools to orchestrate Decentralized Energy Resources (DERs) efficiently. Join us revolutionizing the way the world manages power.

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We are an early stage investor investing in Seed and Series A startups.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Greece, United Kingdom, United States

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Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
Embla — Embla provides an online medical weight loss treatment using prescription drugs and coaching. The company provides patients with evidence-based treatments, digital tools, medication, and coaching to facilitate sustainable weight loss. Embla was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Measurlabs — We provide testing services for any material, product, or chemical, helping product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.

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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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

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Deplike — Everyone can make music!
UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!

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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!

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Grocery
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Estonia, France

Portfolio highlights

Bairro — Produtos em minutos
Conduit.app — No-code data analytics for Digital Marketeers in DTC/ E-commerce/ SaaS businesses
Pop Market — Pop Market delivers thousands of grocery and convenience products in less than 15 minutes.The company operates a vertically-integrated model, sourcing products directly from suppliers and distributing them from its own network of delivery-only "dark stores”. By having more control of its supply chain, it has the ability to limit food wasteand offer ultra-fast delivery times. Pop Market is backed by leading global investors and its team brings together deep industry experience.

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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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

Giza — Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
Utorg — Utorg is a fintech company that offers а modern on/off-ramp and web3 consumer infrastructure to deliver а top-notch user experience. The company is EU-based and holds a license for providing a virtual currency service, in particular exchanging a virtual currency against fiat currency, virtual currency wallet service, and exchanging virtualcurrency against a virtual currency.Utorg was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.

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