Top 10 Retail Startup Investors in Greece in February 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 February 2025
Investor | Retail Greece investments |
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Openfund | 2 |
Genesis Ventures | 2 |
Global Founders Capital | 2 |
468 Capital | 2 |
Mavericks Founders | 1 |
Alexander Rittweger | 1 |
TA Ventures | 1 |
Insta Ventures | 1 |
Melih Odemis | 1 |
VentureFriends | 1 |
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.
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.
Making early-stage founders successful globally. A coaching and angel investment platform for early-stage startups.
Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Munchfam — Munchfam is your next restaurant software package that covers everything from POS to Webshop to Ingredients.
- Silo Team — Silo Team is developing an onboarding platform to help engineering managers onboard developers faster with automation.
- illuminem — illuminem is the world's most-read Sustainability information and data platform. It offers unlimited news, insights from the largest expert network in sustainability, sustainability data for thousands of companies, and climate sales leads - all in one place.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Distru — Seed-to-Sale Cannabis ERP that helps operators manage their inventory, orders and customers from a single interface, while staying compliant with Metrc.
- Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
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.
Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Arva AI — Arva AI makes onboarding onto a bank/fintech as a business 100x faster and significantly cheaper. An end-to-end KYB solution fuelled by AI.
- Liora Energia — Energy platform, leveraging technology to reduce electricity costs, promote smart consumption, and enable access to renewable energy sources
- ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.
Mavericks Founders is an Angel syndicate from Berlin, made up of experienced founders. We support entrepreneurs; their great minds and visions.
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.
Alexander Rittweger is a Board Member & Lead Investo at ALOHA. He attended University of Mannheim.
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.
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
- Gameto — Gameto is a new breed of biotechnology company in female reproductive longevity
- Amwal Tech — The fastest and most secure way to accept payments online
- Impress — Impress – is European leading digital orthodontic DSO of new generationWe have a defensible model with the personal touch of an in-house orthodontist, true clinical expertise, and engaging directly with consumersImpress was founded in 2019 in Barcelona with the idea of combining the best of orthodontic tradition with the most innovativetechnology in the sector. From the very beginning the vision of the Impress founders was to introduce a different business model with a strong focus on medical experience and digitalization. The company is transforming the oral healthcare industry by developing its own chain of orthodontic clinics, which are characterized by their disruptive design and modern patient experience. The founders decided to build a medical company with the personal touch of in-house orthodontists, face-to-face care, and unique clinical expertise, where the proper implementation of business processes and digitalization are at the core.In less than 2 years, Impress has managed to position itself as the European leader in the orthodontic sector, has treated more than 22.000 smiles and already has a presence in more than 80 European cities. Its innovation and quality have earned it recognition from Sifted as one of the fastest growing HealthTech companies in Europe in 2020.
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
- Ex-human — Create your AI persona from a single photo
- 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.
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, Pre-Seed, Angel
- 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!
Backing ambitious early-stage founders across Europe and MENA
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!
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