George Tziralis
Partner @ Openfund
Athens, Greece
George Tziralis is a seed investor at Openfund in Athens focused on Software and Information Technology. Back in 2007, I was trying to turn my PhD research into a startup and wondered if there were other like-minded people in my home country.I decided to look for them by staging a small event for entrepreneurs. A dozen founders showed up. It became a monthly thing. Over time it attracted dozens and then hundreds, an entrepreneurial community wasborn.We had the numbers but no matter how hard we worked, how timely our ideas were, they failed. Mine failed as well, I know how it feels.I took a step back and tried to work out why. The reasons that emerged were twofold: a profound lack of capital and relevant advice.True founders build; they start from a deep belief, focus on what they have and try to make the best out of it.My intuition told me that my community peers could do great things. There were makers, builders, tech enthusiasts. It was my deeply-held belief that they could build successful companies. I had to do whatever it took to make this happen.In my first fund, we proved that a $10m technology company could be built in Greece. In my second, we raised that bar to $100m and it will be cleared. For the third fund we will aim higher again.My journey feels too short to have been told this many times that something “cannot be done.”There are many good reasons for this to be the case. “It has never happened here before” is not one of them.I like being early and starting small. You help things take shape.I also like working with people who want things as much as I do. You can usually tell straightaway if the desire is there. If it is, it will sustain you.Venture is beautiful. Amid rejections and failures, you get to watch the best perform. Someone’s life’s work unfolds in front of you, getting them a bit further makes the journey worth it.We live in exciting times, unconfined by the accident of where we were born. A random guy from an unlikely place can make an impact by enabling his peers to pursue their dreams.
- Total investments:
- 47
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 32%
Last updated:
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Industries George Tziralis invests in
Stages George Tziralis invests in
Countries George Tziralis invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (11%)
- Information Technology 5 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (11%)
- Analytics 4 (9%)
- Machine Learning 4 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 25 (53%)
- Series A 6 (13%)
- Series B 2 (4%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (2%)
- Funding Round 1 (2%)
Country
- Greece 12 (26%)
- United Kingdom 7 (15%)
- United States 3 (6%)
- Cyprus 2 (4%)
- Germany 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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DataForm Lab
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DataForm Lab specializes in mitigating risks associated with the adoption of automation in offsite construction. By leveraging cutting-edge data analysis and innovative technologies, DataForm Lab offers tailored solutions to address the challenges and uncertainties that often accompany the integration of automation processes in constructionprojects. | $1.4M / Seed / Jun 06, 2024 | |
Bota Systems
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Bota Systems' vision is to make robots feel and manipulate the physical world as easily as humans do. Bota Systems is a developer of force torque sensors, load cells, torque sensors, and robotic grippers. It aims to contribute to the increasing demand for automation technology by providing high quality and cost effective robotic components. | $2.5M / Seed / Oct 03, 2023 | |
Causaly
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Causaly develops a biomedical research discovery tool designed to find and unlock key hidden evidence in biomedicine. It amplifies human cognitive abilities to expand the boundaries of discovery toward making the best decisions in biomedicine. | $60M / Series B / Jul 13, 2023 | |
Ariadne
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Ariadne Maps is a high technology company that provides detailed customer analytics with its cutting edge artificial intelligence approach. Ariadne enables indoor and outdoor localization and tracking in publicly accessible areas such as train stations, malls as well as shops and airports. They make use of advanced artificial intelligencealgorithms for precise and anonymous tracking of passengers and customers to help businesses to optimize their infrastructure for minimizing congestion hence dwell time, advertising and marketing while maximizing satisfaction and experience of consumers. | $7M / Series A / May 23, 2023 | |
Velos Rotors
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Velos Rotors offers and develops UAV, helicopters, and drones. | $2M / Seed / Apr 06, 2023 | |
Hack The Box
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Hack The Box is a provider of an ethical hacking community and cybersecurity training platform based in the United Kingdom. It enables users to test their penetration testing skills, exchange ideas and methodologies with the community. The platform contains several challenges that are constantly updated. Some of them simulating real-world scenariosand some of them leaning more towards a CTF style of challenge.The company was founded in 2017 by Aris Zikopoulos and Haris Pylarinos. | $55M / Series B / Jan 11, 2023 | |
Cube RM
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Cube RM empowers enterprises to accelerate revenue growth and be more productive in the process by offering a Revenue Management & Optimization SaaS Suite including an intuitive CPQ (Configure Price Quote) system and integrated price guidance through sophisticated machine learning models and software automation, which helps companies toefficiently manage sales quotes, create and evaluate tender proposals, and identify optimum pricing. | $8M / Series A / Dec 14, 2021 | |
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Hack The Box
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Hack The Box is a provider of an ethical hacking community and cybersecurity training platform based in the United Kingdom. It enables users to test their penetration testing skills, exchange ideas and methodologies with the community. The platform contains several challenges that are constantly updated. Some of them simulating real-world scenariosand some of them leaning more towards a CTF style of challenge.The company was founded in 2017 by Aris Zikopoulos and Haris Pylarinos. | $10.6M / Series A / Apr 12, 2021 | |
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Causaly
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Causaly develops a biomedical research discovery tool designed to find and unlock key hidden evidence in biomedicine. It amplifies human cognitive abilities to expand the boundaries of discovery toward making the best decisions in biomedicine. | $4.8M / Series A / Nov 20, 2019 | |
Augmenta
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Augmenta started its operations at the start of 2017, in Athens, Greece, by George Varvarelis and Dimitris Evangelopoulos, both farmers and embedded systems engineers and offers an Artificial Intelligence based solution comprised of a hardware device and a web platform, to any farmer, anywhere in the world that wants to have the best possibleefficiency for every inch of his land and ultimately increase his seasonal net income. Augmenta’s “Field Analyzer”, is a plug and play device that can be attached to any tractor and can determine the amount of fertilizers, fungicides and pesticides that every inch of the farm needs to reach to its full potential, all in real-time. Furthermore, Field Analyzer is capable of controlling agricultural machinery (e.g. fertilizer spreaders) also in real-time, applying the optimal amount of chemicals into every inch of the farm completely automatically and without the farmer lifting a finger. Finally, the farmer can use Augmenta’s field-viewer, the company’s easy to use web platform, to observe the progression of his field through visual data analytics which help him keep track of the results of Augmenta’s real time operation but also assist him on making data-driven, customized decisions for the future, in a farm level scale and not in a generic geographical (county or even state/country) level scale which is the norm today. Augmenta has completed successfully 2 years of pilots, in 24 fields having staggering results and is currently conducting data-based pilots with food companies like Barilla and partnered with NVIDIA for the development of its cutting edge deep learning device. | $2.4M / Seed / Oct 08, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
About Openfund
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.
Openfund Contacts
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Constantine Pateras
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Nicholas Frangos
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Aristos Doxiadis
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George Tziralis
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Georgios Kasselakis
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FAQ
What does George Tziralis invest in?
George Tziralis invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Greece. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did George Tziralis last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for George Tziralis closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 47 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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