Our Story
2011
Apostolos co-founds e-food and Doctoranytime. George joins forces with Apostolos into investing as angel investor in Beat (acquired in 2017 by Daimler).
2016
After 5 years of entrepreneurial and angel investing activity and some successful exits, VF1 a €20M euro fund is born to back ambitious teams and help them build international market leaders.
2018
VF2 is launched with a size of €50M building on the traction and valuable learnings gained from VF1
2021
VF3 launched its latest €100M fund, building on its quest to become a strong European Seed stage investor.
Apostolos, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded e-shop, e-food, and doctoranytime, turned into an angel investor and along with George, invested in Beat in 2011. After a couple of notable exits (e-food acquired by Delivery Hero and Beat (currently Freenow) acquired by Daimler), Apostolos and George identified the gap in seed funding in Greece and launched VF1.
VentureFriends was born during the tough times of the Greek crisis with the mission to back ambitious tech entrepreneurs. We have supported some inspiring teams out of Greece and over the years, expanded our coverage to Europe with offices in London, Warsaw & Barcelona.
We want to be among the first institutional partners to stellar founding teams across Europe and join their journey to build the next global leaders in their sectors. We know that it a long and hilly ride, and we will do everything we can to be there and support.
Why us
We have been there, we understand what it takes & we view founders as partners.
We work with our founders and utilise our network in their favour
Investment Focus
We are an early stage investor investing in Pre-Seed & Seed startups.
We are attracted to scalable B2C and B2B businesses that address large markets and can develop a strong moat over time. Marketplaces are in our DNA, but we also love SaaS models, while in terms of verticals we have a sweet spot for FinTech and PropTech among others.
