Top 5 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Greece

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Greece. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Greece. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Greece

Investor	Artificial intelligence Greece investments
Christos Makiyama	1
Dimitrios Kourtesis	1
Daniel Kan	1
Jason Manolopoulos	1
Argyris Zymnis	1

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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.

Investment focus

Semiconductor, Computer Vision, Internet of Things
Seed
Greece

Portfolio highlights

Think Silicon — Think Silicon offers a range of graphics IP semiconductor modules and display processors for the Internet of Things, wearable, and broader display devices markets.The company also offers drivers and API software, SDKs including easy-to-use GUI design tools, evaluation and development kits, FPGA-based implementations, and more.Think Silicon wasfounded in 2007 and is based in Patras Science Park, Greece.

Dimitrios Kourtsis is the External Expert (Technical Consultant), Joint Research Centre at European Commission. Attended The University of Sheffield.

Investment focus

Video, Software, Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed
Greece

Portfolio highlights

Loceye — Online Eye Tracking platform for Advertisers, Marketeers, Designers and Researchers.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Consumer Goods, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Greece, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

JustPaid — Stay in control of your business with payments, AI-powered automation, benchmarking, contract tracking, opportunity alerts, and more, all in one platform.
Lambda Automata — Building the digital backbone for the age of autonomous warfare.
Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.

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.