Top 10 Retail Startup Investors in Greece in September 2025
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Greece. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Greece. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Retail Startup Investors in Greece in September 2025
Investor | Retail Greece investments |
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Global Founders Capital | 2 |
468 Capital | 2 |
Openfund | 2 |
Genesis Ventures | 2 |
Insta Ventures | 1 |
TA Ventures | 1 |
Melih Odemis | 1 |
Alexander Rittweger | 1 |
Mavericks Founders | 1 |
VentureFriends | 1 |
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Orasio — Orasio turns video feeds into easily actionable information for cities, homeland security forces, and businesses.
- Genie — Genie is a provider of a Shopify inventory management solution for fast-growing merchants.
- Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
468 Capital is an investment firm that focuses on identifying and managing opportunities in various markets. The firm employs a systematic approach to investment analysis and portfolio management. It collaborates with a range of partners to support its investment strategies. The company serves industries including technology, healthcare, andrenewable energy.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
- SRE.ai — SRE.ai delivers AI agents that automate Salesforce DevOps workflows, allowing for fast, transparent deployments, back-promotions, and impact analysis. With seamless tool integration, SRE.ai minimizes clicks and maximizes productivity, enabling teams to scale without sacrificing quality or speed.
- BlindPay — BlindPay is a stablecoin API that enables companies to send and receive money worldwide using fiat money, stablecoins and multiple blockchains. We handle all the complex compliance and regulatory requirements, so companies can focus on their core business.
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 — The problem:We take our most critical career & academic decisions quite randomly. *Our mission:To empower the world’s youth to consciously take their once in a lifetime decisions.100mentors: On-demand access to the world's largest alumni network. Prepare your students for the workplace of the future.* We live in an agewhere you can have an Uber cab show up in 2', with the car type you like, full visibility of the driver reviews, even the ability to pre-set the music you' ll listen to during your ride. At the same time, you have almost zero capacity to personalise yours or your kid's career & academic orientation to find what truly fits their profiles, needs & special talents or customise their counselling for landing their dream universities & jobs & pursuing their real inclinations...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g18FLCNjscM&feature=youtu.be
- Welcome Pickups — Book a trusted local driver to pick you up and introduce you to your next destination, pre-order travel essentials.
Making early-stage founders successful globally. A coaching and angel investment platform for early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wocap — Wocap is transforming how companies manage working capital by creating a digital marketplace where Buyers and their existing Suppliers interact directly to accelerate invoice payments; without banks, debt, or bureaucracy.Using a dynamic auction model, Wocap allows Buyers to earn attractive returns on idle cash, while Suppliers receive fasteraccess to liquidity on their own terms. The platform fosters transparency, automation, and mutually beneficial pricing; empowering CFOs to replace outdated financing structures with a smart, self-managed solution.Backed by Genesis Ventures and a group of strategic angel investors, Wocap is on a mission to make working capital smarter, fairer, and more accessible, especially for SMEs that need it most. The company is based in Athens, Greece, with its MVP launching in 2025.
- Protio — Protio is proptech startup reinventing the process of buying & selling real estate.
- Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
Insta Ventures is a venture capital firm that has been investing in different IT technology sectors since 2019. Currently, we are looking for tech startups that are in the early stages of development of their products. Our investment team consists of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds in the IT sphere. Our goal is to help ambitiousteams create innovative products, spread them globally, and maintain fast-growing companies.Typically, we invest $100K-500K during a growing stage of a company's lifecycle (seed / late seed / pre-round A), and then help to develop its marketing and sales, as well as prepare the company for the next investment phase.We appreciate co-investments. Let's invest together!
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Advertising
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Estonia, France
Portfolio highlights
- Nim — Generate videos with state-of-the-art models, templates, and inspiration feed. Text-to-image, image-to-video, restyle, expression transfer, lip sync, upscale, and more
- RedTrack.io — RedTrack.io offers real-time access to your media buying KPIs/data: ad tracking, impressions, clicks, conversions across multiple channels & 30 data points.
- HuLoop Automation, Inc. — HuLoop Automation offers an AI-powered, no-code, unified automation platform that helps clients drive transformation, and achieve revenue growth, cost savings, and productivity gains by automating mundane, repetitive activities.
TA Ventures is a global, network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups that redefine the industries of tomorrow. We typically write initial checks of $100-250K for Pre-Seed and Seed companies and actively provide follow-on investments.
We pride ourselves on swift execution, hands-on support, and leveraging our extensiveinternational network. By connecting our portfolio companies with growth-oriented co-investors, we help them scale effectively through subsequent funding rounds. Additionally, we draw on our deep industry expertise to offer portfolio companies and partner VCs access to top-tier, cost-efficient R&D talent.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
- Goin — Goin is a mobile application to save money easily and take advantage of it without knowing how to invest, through Machine Learning algorithms that allow you to accumulate the user's money through small daily gestures. he three Spanish founders, David, Carlos and Gabriel, were looking for a way to optimize their own money, and decided toconduct an experiment by exchanging their debit cards and thus saving 62% during those two months of rehearsal. This is how Goin emerged, which aims to meet the needs of 100% of Millennials, of which 83% confess that they do not know how to save, making available an easy-to-use tool that enhances their finances and lifestyle. On the one hand, the Barcelona startup allows the user to add money automatically and multiply it without having previous knowledge of investment. Goin uses a simple system that first asks to know the user through questions about their habits and, in this way, they are offered automatic systems and methods of saving. Once the user adds money to the app, they can transfer part or all of it to investment, or to their bank account. Its Smart Saving technology manages to accumulate money with small, everyday gestures, such as rounding a payment.
- Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
- Amwal Tech — The fastest and most secure way to accept payments online
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
- HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
Alexander Rittweger is a Board Member & Lead Investo at ALOHA. He attended University of Mannheim.
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Investment focus
- iOS, E-Commerce, Business Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Bangladesh, United States, Greece
Portfolio highlights
- Arogga — Arogga App is the first Bangladeshi app that brought healthcare system to your doorstep. Easy and efficient. With a click of a button, upload your prescription and we will ensure safe delivery of your medicine at earliest possible time.
- GoZayaan — Welcome to GoZayaan, the ultimate online platform for next generation traveling! We aim to put you in charge of your travel plan. Your dream trip is just a few clicks away, with GoZayaan!
- Frequenz — Frequenz empowers developers with innovative tools to orchestrate Decentralized Energy Resources (DERs) efficiently. Join us revolutionizing the way the world manages power.
Mavericks Founders is an Angel syndicate from Berlin, made up of experienced founders. We support entrepreneurs; their great minds and visions.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Retail, Fitness
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Greece, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Selfapy — Selfapy offers a therapy support tool that helps recognize negative patterns of thought and train new behavior. Selfapy is your guided, self-help online course against depression with a personal psychologist as a companion.
- Pop Market — Pop Market delivers thousands of grocery and convenience products in less than 15 minutes.The company operates a vertically-integrated model, sourcing products directly from suppliers and distributing them from its own network of delivery-only "dark stores”. By having more control of its supply chain, it has the ability to limit food wasteand offer ultra-fast delivery times. Pop Market is backed by leading global investors and its team brings together deep industry experience.
- Dr. SAM — Dr. SAM connects the user with experienced veterinarians for a digital consultation. The company was founded in 2018 and based in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Backing ambitious early-stage founders across Europe and MENA
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Investment focus
- FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Retab — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
- Unosecur — Unosecur is a cloud security platform that helps organizations detect, quantify, remediate and centrally manage identity and access risks across multi-clouds at all times.
- Capalo AI — We maximize the value of your energy storage systems. Now and in the future.
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