# Top 20 Transportation Startup Investors in Greece in June 2026

## VentureFriends
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce

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.

## Openfund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Travel, SaaS

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.

## Melih Odemis
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

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.

## Genesis Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Making early-stage founders successful globally.  A coaching and angel investment platform for early-stage startups.

## Velocity.Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Automotive

Our mission is to fuel Greek entrepreneurs around the globe build world-class technology companies

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

## ETF Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology

ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations, and family offices. The firm creates value by investing in and supporting great European companies that deliver Sustainability Through Innovation.

## Apeiron Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Drones, Security, Software

We focus on B2B Enterprise Software & consumer-facing ventures targeting the GenZ Economy.

## Market One Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Market One Capital | Seed fund empowering marketplaces and network effects platforms across Europe

## Emerald Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Energy

Emerald Technology Ventures specializes in clean technology venture capital. Emerald focuses on the areas of energy, water, and materials. , Emerald manages several venture capital funds and venture capital portfolio mandates.

## Nabtesco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B
- Focus: Energy, Battery, Shipping

Nabtesco specializes in gearboxes, rotors, motors and robotics.

## Flashpoint
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning

Venture capital serves as funding for emerging, inventive enterprises poised for rapid expansion.

## Emilios Markou
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Insurance, iOS, Mobile

Emilios Markou isCo-Founder and Executive Directorat Hellas Direct.

## Hummingbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.

## John Tsioris
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Travel, Farming, Internet

John Tsioris is based out of Dubai and is the Founder and CEO of Re18. John previously worked at InstaShop as a Founder and CEO. John Tsioris attended the Technical University of Crete.

## Chrysanthos Chrysanthou
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, B2B, SaaS

Chrysanthos Chrysanthou is a Partner at Kindred Capital since Sep 2018. Chrys joined Kindred from Notion Capital where he was a partner since 2015. Prior to that he was at Accel Partners as Vice President on the investment team focusing primarily on B2B opportunities, within infrastructure software, cloud computing, IoT/M2M and Big Datatechnologies. Prior to Accel Partners Chrys was at Amazon Web Services where he led Business Development efforts of the startup ecosystem, across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before Amazon Web Services Chrys was Chief Operating Officer of Living PlanIT, a B2B startup technology company in the IoT/M2M space, enabling the development of intelligent and sustainable urban-scale environments. Previously, Chrys worked at Cisco for approximately 10 years where he led Services-related investments and acquisitions worldwide. At Cisco Chrys also worked in the IT and Operations departments leading teams across large scale business process re-engineering and enterprise software migration projects. Chrys has lived and worked in Silicon Valley, the UK, Portugal and India and led projects in the Middle East, South Africa, China and Singapore. Chrys holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego and an MBA from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University.

## Blue Wire Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS

Investing globally in Frontier & Consumer businesses at pre-seed or seed.

## Metavallon VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

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.

## Panos Papadopoulos
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

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.

## Jason Manolopoulos
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Rental, Internet, Software

Jason has over 24 years of investing experience with a focus on emerging markets, both in investment banks and fund managers. Jason co-founded the fund management company Dromeus Capital in April 2008 and served as Chief Investment Officer and member of its Executive and Investment Committees. He is an active mentor of the start-up community,advising many Greek start-ups. His start-up investment activity began in 2010.
