# VentureFriends

> VentureFriends is a VC fund in Athens backing FinTech and Software. See 144 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Greece
- Total investments: 144
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 43%
- Fund size: $110M
- Last fund: Dec 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/venturefriends/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/VentureF_VC
- Website: http://venturefriends.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/venturefriends/

VentureFriends is a venture capital fund that invests in tech-enabled companies. VentureFriends (VF) is a venture capital fund specialising in seed stage startups. VF seeks to invest in tech-enabled B2C and B2B startups that can develop a sustainable moat over time and have a sweet spot for PropTech, FinTech, Marketplaces, and SaaS. The fundtypically invests between €0.3M - €2.5M and can follow on up to a total of €5 - 10M. VentureFriends invests predominantly in Europe and is founded by ex-entrepreneurs and angel investors, thus having an entrepreneurial and founder-friendly philosophy.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$6.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $219k–$3.4M |
| Series A | $2.6M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 12 | 8% |
| Software | 12 | 8% |
| E-Commerce | 12 | 8% |
| Internet | 10 | 7% |
| Financial Services | 9 | 6% |

102 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 47 | 33% |
| Series A | 20 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 6% |
| Series B | 6 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Greece | 16 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 13 | 9% |
| United States | 11 | 8% |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 3% |
| Finland | 3 | 2% |

18 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| George Dimopoulos | Partner and co-founder | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-dimopoulos |
| Lily Joo | Venture Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lily-joo |
| Alistair Owen | Principal; Principal | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alistair-owen |
| Apostolos Apostolakis | Partner and co-founder | 41 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apostolos-apostolakis |
| George Karabelas | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-karabelas |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NeuralTrust | NeuralTrust is the leading security platform for generative AI, offering a unified command center for real-time defense and offense. Its open source AI gateway delivers the fastest performance in the market for managing LLM traffic, while its automated red teaming engine proactively uncovers vulnerabilities, ensuring robust protection for your AIsystems. | $19.9M | Seed | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Kodesage | Kodesage is an enterprise-ready solution for helping engineering teams quickly understand complex software projects and modernize legacy systems. | $6.6M | Seed | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Embat | Embat develops cloud-based treasury management software designed to help finance teams manage cash flow, banking operations, and financial forecasting in real time. The company provides a platform that connects bank accounts, enterprise resource planning systems, and payment systems to centralize visibility of cash positions across multipleentities and currencies. Its software supports automated reconciliation, payment execution, liquidity forecasting, and financial reporting through a unified interface. The platform also includes AI-driven features that assist with transaction matching, anomaly detection, and cash flow prediction to reduce manual finance operations. Embat works with mid-sized and large enterprises to streamline treasury workflows, improve liquidity management, and support financial decision-making. The company integrates with a wide network of financial institutions and enterprise systems to enable continuous financial data synchronization and operational control.The platform uses automation and AI features to reduce manual treasury tasks, including transaction matching, accounting entries, and financial reporting workflows. It integrates with a wide range of banking systems and corporate ERPs to synchronize financial data continuously. Embat also enables centralized payment management, allowing finance teams to initiate, approve, and track transactions across multiple banking relationships. Its tools support cash visibility, debt monitoring, and financial scenario planning for operational decision-making. | $35.3M | Series B | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Sybilion | Sybilion is an artificial intelligence-powered platform that provides a decision layer for companies analyzing information for supply chain management, marketing, and planning purposes. | $4.2M | Seed | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Capalo AI | Capalo AI offers a state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence platform for the energy industry. | $13M | Series A | Feb 06, 2026 |  |
| Valeria HR | Valeria HR is a digitized workforce management platform driven by AI. | $2M | Seed | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| Altan | Altan is an AI-driven team that autonomously transforms ideas into fully-functional digital products using its innovative Collective AGI (CAGI) multi-agent framework. Altan handles end-to-end software development—from frontend to backend, including infrastructure, testing, and iteration—allowing users to focus solely on their vision.Founded withthe mission of empowering everyone with a superhuman AI team available 24/7, Altan uniquely combines frictionless infrastructure and a transparent, no-code interface for easy modification and control of AI-generated outputs.Altan primarily serves entrepreneurs, operational leaders, digital agencies, and freelancers, enabling rapid prototyping, launching, and scaling of digital solutions without traditional development teams. Headquartered in Barcelona, Altan emphasizes community engagement (#BuildInPublic), rapid innovation, and continuous improvement, supported by an attractive Employee Stock Option Pool (ESOP).Altan aims to redefine industry standards with benchmarks for end-to-end software creation and targets significant market milestones, including autonomous SaaS growth and substantial recurring revenue. | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Sep 12, 2025 |  |
| Retab | Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships. | $3.4M | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Huspy | Huspy is a proptech based in Dubai redefining the home financing process through a user friendly digital experience that puts the buyer first. | $59M | Series B | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| Unosecur | Unosecur is an agentless identity security platform that overlays existing cloud, SaaS, identity provider, and on-prem infrastructure, complementing your existing identity stack. Unosecur’s Unified Identity Fabric is a live data model that brings every identity into a single operational view, including ownership, permissions, activity, and accesspaths.Tenant provisioning takes 15 minutes, integrations are agentless, and findings start appearing at runtime. The Unosecur platform runs working capabilities across discovery, posture, access governance, threat detection, AI agent security, and identity compliance. | $5M | Seed | Apr 09, 2025 |  |

10 of 144 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
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- [4Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4founders-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does VentureFriends invest in?

VentureFriends invests primarily in FinTech, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 144 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Greece. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is VentureFriends's check size?

VentureFriends typically joins rounds of $500k–$6.6M at Seed, $219k–$3.4M at Pre-Seed and $2.6M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds VentureFriends participates in.

### How do I contact VentureFriends?

Public channels for VentureFriends include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at VentureFriends?

The team at VentureFriends includes George Dimopoulos (Partner and co-founder), Lily Joo (Venture Partner) and Alistair Owen (Principal; Principal), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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