# Top 40 Angel Investors in Greece in June 2026 ## Melih Odemis - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - 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. ## Apostolos Apostolakis - Type: Angel - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Beauty, Rental Diane leads the bank's credit department, providing guidance and leadership to help maintain the quality of the loan portfolio through credit information and loan policies and procedures. ## 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. ## John Tsioris - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Travel, Farming, Internet John Tsioris is based out of Dubai and is the Founder and CEO of Re18. John previously worked at InstaShop as a Founder and CEO. John Tsioris attended the Technical University of Crete. ## Alistair Owen - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Beauty 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. ## Mathias Kamprad - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Venture - Series Unknown - Focus: Energy, Sports, Internet Mathias Kamprad ## Bashar Hamood - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University. ## 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. ## Lars Rasmussen - Type: Angel - Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Apps, Video Google Maps Co-Founder / Defiance Capital Co-Founder / Angel Investor / Panathēnea Co-Founder / Kite Surfing Coffee Enthusiast ## 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. ## Hesham Zreik - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster. ## Panos Papadopoulos - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile 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. ## Sophia Bendz - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures ## Jason Manolopoulos - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Rental, Internet, Software 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. ## Christos Makiyama - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Semiconductor, Computer Vision, Internet of Things Christos is the President of Silicon Planet, a venture development firm he founded in February 2001. Silicon Planet's scope is to work with technology innovators and support to identify and evaluate market opportunities and develop a sustainable and high-value business model around their technologies.During the last 20 years, Christos hasengaged and supported the venture development initiatives of various corporations such as NTT, Oki Electric, Paltek, ImageOne as well many technology startups with innovative technologies in the areas of networking and communication, semiconductors, video communications, computer vision, IoT and AI.In 2004, he joined Helic, a startup company that had developed innovative electromagnetic analysis solutions and IP for wireless and high-speed communication ICs design. Christos led the company's Japanese market development activities and, until February 2019, had closed many high-value business deals with companies in semiconductors design such as SONY, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Panasonic, SHARP, AKM, Samsung, Denso, and many others. In 2008, Christos also helped to secure a strategic investment from Fujitsu and Magma Design. Ansys, the world market leader in engineering simulation solutions, acquired Helic in February 2019. Christos had been an angel investor and Director of the Board of Think Silicon, based in Patra, Greece. Christos's journey with the company started in late 2014. He actively involved in various aspects of the strategy and business development for its innovative ultra-low power GPU and Display controller technology. Applied Materials, the world leader in the semiconductor and display engineering solutions, acquired Think Silicon in April 2020.Christos is an investor in Fieldscale and since May 2020 act as the Chief Innovation Officer, leading its business strategy and product development.Christos is a co-founder of Loctio, an IoT related technology company, and is on the advisory board of InAccel. He is a mentor with Reload Greece, a UK based non-profit organization, which aims to educate and support young entrepreneurs. ## Daniel Kan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods Daniel Kan is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Cruise. He was formerly head of business development at customer-service startup UserVoice and will be running hiring and operations at Exec. ## Louis Pfitzner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, Software, Marketplace Co-CEO at CleanHub, Entrepreneur (Salonmeister, Treatwell, CAYA, Lieferheld/Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about building companies (marketplaces & SaaS), especially in the SMB space. ## Gert Jan van der Hoeven - Type: Angel - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Personalization Gert Jan has founded H2 in 1991 together with his long time friend Age Hollander. Gert Jan had graduated from his studies at the Delft University of Technology and the Rotterdam School of Management. After his graduations Gert Jan joined McKinsey & Company to work in The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. At McKinsey Gert Jan managed theworld wide company diagnostic approach.Gert Jan has built-up the H2 team and has introduced the firm's strong focus on operational value add, including several of the firm's approaches. He is Chairman of the Investment Committee of H2. Gert Jan's passion is to indeed build better companies. The areas of his knowledge include consumer goods (Lunch Garden), manufacturing (Eska Graphic Board and Meijn), wholesale and distribution (Smartwares).Gert Jan likes to spend time with his family. ## Bhavik Bajaj - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech Bhavik Bajaj ## Patrick Odier - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace Patrick Odier ## Edvard Engesæth - Type: Angel - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, B2B, CMS Edvard Engesæth is the Co-Founder at Nurx and a Venture Partner at Sondo Capital. ## Alan Rutledge - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Alan Rutledge ## Roman Smolevskiy - Type: Angel - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Software, Artificial Intelligence Roman Smolevskiy is currently the co-founder at BuildTech VC. He was also the founder of Akvapoint. He attended the University of California. ## Chrysanthos Chrysanthou - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, B2B, SaaS Chrysanthos Chrysanthou is a Partner at Kindred Capital since Sep 2018. Chrys joined Kindred from Notion Capital where he was a partner since 2015. Prior to that he was at Accel Partners as Vice President on the investment team focusing primarily on B2B opportunities, within infrastructure software, cloud computing, IoT/M2M and Big Datatechnologies. Prior to Accel Partners Chrys was at Amazon Web Services where he led Business Development efforts of the startup ecosystem, across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before Amazon Web Services Chrys was Chief Operating Officer of Living PlanIT, a B2B startup technology company in the IoT/M2M space, enabling the development of intelligent and sustainable urban-scale environments. Previously, Chrys worked at Cisco for approximately 10 years where he led Services-related investments and acquisitions worldwide. At Cisco Chrys also worked in the IT and Operations departments leading teams across large scale business process re-engineering and enterprise software migration projects. Chrys has lived and worked in Silicon Valley, the UK, Portugal and India and led projects in the Middle East, South Africa, China and Singapore. Chrys holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego and an MBA from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University. ## Ahu Serter - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Transportation Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University. ## Oliver Cameron - Type: Angel - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Oliver Cameron is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Odyssey. He previously worked at Cruise as a Vice President, Product. Oliver Cameron attended Y Combinator. ## Argyris Kaninis - Type: Angel - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Real Estate Argyris Kaninis is the Chief Operating Officer of Softomotive. He has over 20 years of experience in the field of in IT and Telecommunications and has amassed a great deal of experience in leading Enterprise Software companies. He is a results-oriented, self-driven, and highly motivated executive with a successful track record in growing businessand exceeding business objectives. His experience includes worldwide business expansion through building high performing sales teams, establishing strategic alliances and building solid partner networks. He received his ΜSc in Information Systems Engineering from the University of Manchester. ## Juan Benet - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Grant - Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Juan Benet is the Founder, CEO, and Engineer at Protocol Labs. He is a former CTO at Loki Studios. He attended Stanford University. ## Alejandro Artacho - Type: Angel - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Travel, Education, Communities Alejandro is CEO and co-founder of Spotahome. He studied Law and Business in Madrid. He speaks English, Chinese and Spanish. He has always been obsessed with making the world smaller by simplifying every possible difficulty cross border.To that end, right after University, he moved to China for 3 years where he set up 2 companies: an exportingbusiness and a travel agency. After that experience, he moved into tech companies and launched a Startup related with job mobility worldwide that got selected in competitions in Portugal and Spain and incubated in the IE Venture Lab in Madrid. After a lot of learning, he moved and worked in Lisbon and London in the Real Estate industry where he saw a massive opportunity to change the real estate industry forever so then launched Spotahome in 2014. ## 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. ## Laurel Bowden - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C, Series B, Series D - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Laurel is a General Partner at 83North (formerly Greylock IL), which she joined in 2008. Her areas of focus include: software, internet and fintech. Laurel has led investments in many leading European companies, including Just Eat (LSE: JE), Qliktech (NASDAQ: QLIK) and Hybris (acquired by SAP).Her current company boards and investmentsinclude Workable, Mirakl, NotontheHighStreet, Wonga, Wandera, iZettle, BlueVine, Ebury and Investec PLC & Ltd.Laurel was previously at GE and JVP. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from INSEAD. ## Daniel Bornstein - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Events, Mobile Daniel Bornstein ## Alexander Rittweger - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: iOS, Apps, SaaS Alexander Rittweger is a Board Member & Lead Investo at ALOHA. He attended University of Mannheim. ## Eleftherios Diakomichalis - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Information Services, Information Technology Previously VP Data Science & Engineering at SoundCloud, currently building OScoin. ## Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Eric Wahlforss is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dance. He co-Founded SoundCloud Limited in 2007 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Eric Wahlforss has been working with the web since 1995 and served as the Interaction Designer for Gate5 (acquired by Nokia in 2007). Under the artist name Forss, he has released electronic music on Berlin basedlabel Sonar Kollektiv and toured across the world. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Industrial Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has studied three years at the Stockholm School of Economics. ## Sina Afra - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster. ## George Moundreas - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: SaaS, Banking, FinTech George Moundreas ## Argyris Zymnis - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, Information Technology, News Argyris Zymnis - Founder @ AdGrok ## Emilios Markou - Type: Angel - Location: Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Insurance, iOS, Mobile Emilios Markou isCo-Founder and Executive Directorat Hellas Direct. ## Alexandre Vilgrain - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace Alexandre Vilgrain