Top 20 Hardware Startup Investors in Greece in November 2024
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hardware startups based in Greece. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Greece. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Hardware Startup Investors in Greece in November 2024
Investor | Hardware Greece investments |
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Marathon Venture Capital | 6 |
Uni.Fund | 6 |
LAUNCHub Ventures | 5 |
Openfund | 4 |
Metavallon VC | 2 |
HCVC | 2 |
Christos Makiyama | 1 |
Pymwymic | 1 |
Velocity.Partners | 1 |
Dimitrios Kourtesis | 1 |
EIT Urban Mobility | 1 |
John Tsioris | 1 |
CNH Industrial | 1 |
Edvard Engesæth | 1 |
Alan Rutledge | 1 |
Panos Papadopoulos | 1 |
Eleven Ventures | 1 |
VentureFriends | 1 |
Runa Capital | 1 |
Laurel Bowden | 1 |
Marathon Venture Capital is a seed-stage fund, helping ambitious Greek founders build world-class technology companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Greece, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SMPnet — Revolutionising power grid management with cutting-edge solutions. Join us to shape a sustainable and efficient energy landscape.
- DataForm Lab — DataForm Lab is automating offsite construction. Our platform enables offsite manufacturers to automatically configure projects, instantly translate designs into production information, and optimise factory operations.
- PolyModels Hub — PolyModels Hub is a team of pharma R&D and manufacturing specialists committed to accelerating the adoption of digital technologies in pharma process development. The company empowers scientists with AI to model, simulate, and access insights across all steps and protocols followed to turn chemical compounds into safe drug products.
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Big Data, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Greece, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Moveo.AI — Moveo.AI is a conversational AI platform that enhances customer support through automation and self-learning capabilities. It serves sales teams by streamlining routine tasks and optimizing communication across various industries.
- Morphoses — Morphoses is an edtech company that is changing the way kids learn and develop their employability skills. Our innovative end-to-end solution engages and educates learners aged 6-17 in a fun and efficient manner through weekly 1hr live sessions in collaborative groups led by top-notch tutors specialized in soft skills.The offering is currentlyavailable to medium-large companies as a way to provide a valuable benefit to parent employees, as well as through educational institutions to expand their range of tutoring and offerings.
- Biological Lattice Industries — Discover BLI's cutting-edge 3D Biofabrication tools like BioLoom and Loominus. Empowering scientists and innovators with AI-driven technology for breakthroughs in regenerative medicine and biotechnology.
LAUNCHUB is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
- Dataworks Research SRL — Soleadify provides business data enrichment with unprecedented coverage of SMBs, accurate classification and in-depth insights based on real-time updates.Always driven by the complexity of AI and Machine Learning, we build more efficient ways of getting more data and get more out of it. Urged on reliability and complete-ness, our datasets haveyet to be beaten in terms of accuracy and classification by industry mammoths.
- Kubeark — Kubeark powers scalable, rapid, and compliant SaaSification and software lifecycle management.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Travel, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Langaware — Our use of language and speech can provide a window into our brain's health. When we speak, complex neural networks work together to form our thoughts and ideas. Utilizing our patented system and proprietary biomarkers.
- Trucksters — We are a transportation company that focuses on providing long distance FTL trucking service through an innovative relay system based on artificial intelligence. We achieve transit times similar to air transport while reducing the costs of traditional road transportation.
- Feel Therapeutics — Feel develops Biomarkers and Digital Therapeutics to bring objective data and measurement in the way we diagnose, manage and care for Mental Health.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cowboy — Meet Cowboy, the connected electric bike for urban riders. With an intuitive motor to sense your pedaling force and a companion app in the cockpit to guide your ride, tune into a newfound freedom in the city.
- atmio — atmio helps natural gas operations to find, fix and report methane emissions easily.
- Surge — PreCyte integrates high-resolution immune system exploration with predictive information to develop preventive strategies, treatments, medical devices.
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.
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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.
Founded in 1994, Pymwymic is the “Put Your Money Where Your Meaning Is Community”, a co-owned organisation of European wealth holders who take a frontrunner role in the transition towards investing with care for people and planet. A community that consists of over 150 individuals, families, entrepreneurs and angel investors of differentbackgrounds, ages and nationalities. We currently invest through the Pymwymic Healthy Ecosystems Impact Fund, a venture capital fund for companies that seek to conserve and restore our ecosystems, with a specific focus on sustainable food systems. By combining our knowledge, passion and money, we bring credibility to the impact investing industry and continuously push for higher standards until investing with care for people and planet is is the new norm.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- The Netherlands, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Aura Imaging — Aura Imaging is proud to lead the aura photography industry. Learn all about aura photography & find top of the line equipment. Click here to start your journey
- Trapview — Trapview is an integrated pest management decision support tool providing real-time insights about pest population dynamics from your fields.
- OneThird — Blockchain, Food Loss, Food Waste, Food Tech, Supply Chain, Big Data, Ag Tech, Digitization, AI, Shelf Life Prediction, Quality Assessment, Fresh Produce, Dynamic Routing, UN SDG 12.3, Spectroscopy, Mobile App, and NIR Spectroscopy
Our mission is to fuel Greek entrepreneurs around the globe build world-class technology companies
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Automotive
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Khyria — We created Khyria to offer every woman her own unique health toolkit, building the next generation of menopause solutions to improve women’s experience and outcomes in midlife and beyond. We’re set on closing the data gap on female health and aging and improve long-term chronic disease outcomes. By leveraging cutting-edge science, empathy, anddata insights, Khyria aims to enhance female potential, improve women’s lives, and their impact across the world.
- Finloup — Finloup is a buy now, pay later FinTech that increases consumer purchasing power and uses Open Banking to ensure responsible spending.
- Chronicles Health — Chronicles is a seed-stage company developing a digital solution that utilizes unobtrusive remote monitoring tools and decision support to enable improved care for people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Dimitrios Kourtsis is the External Expert (Technical Consultant), Joint Research Centre at European Commission. Attended The University of Sheffield.
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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.
EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
Europe’s leading community for impact-driven start-ups and scale-ups in urban mobilityWe want to move cities toward a more sustainable future by partnering up with start-ups and scale-ups like yours. Our Impact Venturesdivision gives you access to funding and support channels to deliver financial, environmental and social impact on the urban landscapes around us. Our tools are: Funding through grants and equity investments, Knowledge and training through partner-led programmes, networking and introductions through dedicated support to our equity portfolio companiesOur investments provide you with a boost on your growth journey, and our network connects you with the right stakeholders in the public policy sector — on a regional, national and European-wide scale — to put your company on the map and bring your urban mobility services to the people who need it the most.If you’re like us and have a drive to shape the cities of our future, join our community of engaged and esteemed impactful ventures by applying for one of the many different programs we offer.
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Investment focus
- Software, Transportation, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Spain, Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
- Smart Point — We are entering the age of convenience and immediacy. A Smart Point automates the reception of any product you shop online, and any service available in your city, from pharmaceuticals, to flowers and dry cleaning. All delivered in 1 hour and available to pick up at your convenience.
- Parabol — As Parabol, we use our innovative power for smart mobility systems and traffic safety all over the world.
- Fastlane — Discover seamless logistics control with our cutting-edge transport management software. Streamline operations, optimize routes, and enhance efficiency effortlessly. Try our solution for comprehensive control today!
John Tsioris is the CEO at InstaShop.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Internet, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Greece, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Kriptomat — Buying, trading, and investing in cryptocurrencies has never been easier! Register in seconds, and start trading crypto in minutes on Kriptomat.
- Pandas — We are Green Panda and our mission is to give consumers the most value out of their smartphone with zero hassle, by empowering them to sell/trade it in the fastest, safest, and easiest way possible. 1Bn (with a B!) smartphones stop being used, every year after you upgrade to the latest and greatest. But there is a solution as simple astrading them in and getting paid while participating in the circular economy. So, why aren’t people selling their old phones, we wondered? This is where Green Panda comes in. Inspired by humans and powered by tech, we make sure that the frustrating experience of selling your smartphone is now as quick and easy as using a kiosk near you. Our patented A.I. technology in the Green Panda kiosks allows us to evaluate a smartphone’s condition, from the smallest nick to serious technical issues, with unprecedented accuracy. Oh, and we pay users on the spot, straight to their bank account/credit card.
- Welcome Pickups — Book a trusted local driver to pick you up and introduce you to your next destination, pre-order travel essentials.
CNH Industrial is a capital goods company that provides a wide range of industrial products.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Farming
- Series A, Seed, Corporate Round
- United States, Brazil, Greece
Portfolio highlights
- BEMAGRO — BEMAGRO offers imaging solutions through artificial intelligence to promote productive and sustainable agriculture.
- Opifex — By Builders For Builders REDEFINING EQUIPMENT RENTAL Lets talk ABOUT US About us Opifex is the premier solution for equipment rental, and job site supplies. You can count on us to provide you with the equipment and supplies you need to build. Lets talk Opifex Delivers Value
- Stout Industrial Technology — Smart Cultivator works great as an in-row weeder for a variety of vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, and so much more. Let us help you automate your farming today!
Founder at Nurx
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Investment focus
- SaaS, B2B, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Greece, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
- Breyta — Gather all your qualitative data and our AI assistant transcribes, analyses and delivers you accurate product insights and patterns at scale in seconds.
- Journey Clinical — Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
- FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
- SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Greece, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ezhome — At ezhome we've transformed the ease with which customers care for their gardens with our subscription based lawn care service. We believe in providing homeowners with clear pricing, continuous communication, on demand availability, and amazing service and support.
- Pandas — We are Green Panda and our mission is to give consumers the most value out of their smartphone with zero hassle, by empowering them to sell/trade it in the fastest, safest, and easiest way possible. 1Bn (with a B!) smartphones stop being used, every year after you upgrade to the latest and greatest. But there is a solution as simple astrading them in and getting paid while participating in the circular economy. So, why aren’t people selling their old phones, we wondered? This is where Green Panda comes in. Inspired by humans and powered by tech, we make sure that the frustrating experience of selling your smartphone is now as quick and easy as using a kiosk near you. Our patented A.I. technology in the Green Panda kiosks allows us to evaluate a smartphone’s condition, from the smallest nick to serious technical issues, with unprecedented accuracy. Oh, and we pay users on the spot, straight to their bank account/credit card.
- Planetary Resources — Planetary Resources is bringing the natural resources of space within humanity’s economic sphere of influence, propelling us into the 21st century and beyond…today.Asteroids will play a key role in the development of a space economy and be the main driver in allowing humanity to become a flourishing multi-planetary species. Water from asteroidswill fuel the in-space economy and habitation, by creating rocket fuel and consumable water from space, for space.
We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Eilla AI — AI Platform to Power the M&A, VC and PE Deal Workflow.
- Cognitiwe — Our AI for retail and manufacturing products offers solutions in stock management, retail shrinkage, quality and health & safety monitoring.
- Native Teams — Native Teams is a platform that offers payments and employment tools for freelancers, remote workers, and clients. Native Teams was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London.
Backing ambitious early-stage founders across Europe and MENA
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Investment focus
- FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
- Edgee — Edgee is a full-stack edge platform that aims to alter how workloads and data are processed on the internet. A variety of services are offered by the Edgee platform for edge-based applications.
- Simpler — Offer a fast & simple checkout with Simpler. Integrate all major payment options, save on fees & sell more. Get it now!
Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- Sismo.io — Sismo enables users to aggregate their identity and selectively disclose personal data to apps with Sismo Connect - the crypto-native SSO using ZKPs.
- Keep — The open-source alerts management and automation platform. Imagine you had GitHub Actions for any part of your observability stack.
- SeeChange Technologies — Enhance your retail operations with Computer Vision AI, optimising inventory, improving customer insights, and elevating in-store experiences.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Series C, Series B, Series D
- United Kingdom, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- Huuva — We believe today’s food delivery market is broken and aim to fix this for all value chain stakeholders by making virtual food courts the new industry standard.Huuva develops a plug-n-play solution for restaurateurs to scale their brands to new markets with healthy unit economics. For consumers, Huuva creates unique virtual food court experiencesdirectly into food delivery applications.
- SellerX — We buy and build Amazon businesses, helping entrepreneurs realise the next stage of their businesses, and their lives.
- Pandas — We are Green Panda and our mission is to give consumers the most value out of their smartphone with zero hassle, by empowering them to sell/trade it in the fastest, safest, and easiest way possible. 1Bn (with a B!) smartphones stop being used, every year after you upgrade to the latest and greatest. But there is a solution as simple astrading them in and getting paid while participating in the circular economy. So, why aren’t people selling their old phones, we wondered? This is where Green Panda comes in. Inspired by humans and powered by tech, we make sure that the frustrating experience of selling your smartphone is now as quick and easy as using a kiosk near you. Our patented A.I. technology in the Green Panda kiosks allows us to evaluate a smartphone’s condition, from the smallest nick to serious technical issues, with unprecedented accuracy. Oh, and we pay users on the spot, straight to their bank account/credit card.
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