| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.01.2025 | Progressive Robotics: Paving the Path for SME Automation | In the bustling world of technology, where giants like Amazon dominate, a small Greek startup is carving its niche. Progressive Robotics, based in Thessaloniki, has secured €1.55 million in seed funding. This investment is not just a financ... |
| 16.01.2025 | Progressive Robotics secures €1.55M | Greek Robotics startup Progressive Robotics, has completed a €1.55M seed funding round led by Marathon Venture Capital with the participation of existing investors Genesis Ventures. This investment aims to accelerate the company’s mission o... |
| 23.12.2024 | Venture Capital Partners Are Leaving Big Firms in Droves | (Bloomberg) -- Being a venture capital partner is supposed to be a job for life. But in 2024, dozens of investors at some of the most storied firms have quit or been pushed out, the effect of a protracted startup downturn and a broader shif... |
| 09.07.2024 | PolyModels Hub raises £1.1M to digitise pharmacology | English biotech software platform PolyModels Hub has raised £1.1 million Seed round by Marathon Venture Capital. PolyModels' thesis is that though investments in lab automation, AI, and robotics are increasing, pharma process development – ... |
| 06.06.2024 | Dataform Lab raises £1.1M for offsite construction via software | Construction tech startup Dataform Lab raised a £1.1M seed round which will be used to invest in offsite construction via its software platform. The round was led by led by Marathon Venture Capital.
The construction industry in the UK is fa... |
| 07.02.2024 | The Gen AI Product Market Just Got More Competitive: Meet The Brainchild of Ex-Meta and Ex-Revolut Greek Engineers | Greece, UK ~
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Only have 1 minute? Here are 3 key takeaways: The Greek diaspora has played a pivotal role in fostering the growth of the startup ecosystem, as Greek-founded tech companies surpassed $1B in funding globally in 2023. La... |
| 27.10.2023 | Disrupting the Venture Capital Space: The Greek Seed-stage Fund Revolutionizing Tech? | Key Takeaways:
Marathon Venture Capital is a Greece-based venture capital fund dedicated to helping promising startups and ambitious founders build world-class technology companies.
With a mission to serve those willing to face challenges a... |
| 03.10.2023 | Bota Systems raises $2.5 million in seed round | |
| 17.08.2023 | 10 Greek M&A Deals in 2023 You Should Know About | Greece ~
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As we delve deeper into 2023, the Greek M&As 2023 landscape has been marked by a series of significant business consolidations. Spanning diverse sectors from cybersecurity to biotechnology, these M&As offer a compr... |
| 13.07.2023 | Greek ML Startup Causaly Raises $60M Series B to Advance Biomedical Research | Athens, Greece ~
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Only have 1 minute? Here are 3 takeaways from the piece:
• Greek ML startup Causaly raised $60M Series B round led by Iconiq Growth together Index Ventures, Pentech, and EBRD among others
• The company’s solution a... |
| 23.05.2023 | Ariadne Completes a $7M Series A to Bring Unique Data for Real Estate Operators | Athens, Greece ~
• Greek analytics platform Ariadne raised a $7M Series A round led by existing investor Marathon Venture Capital.
• With the new funding, the company hopes to establish itself as a technology leader in the industry and serv... |
| 23.05.2023 | Ariadne Secures $7 Million in Series A funding to transform commercial real estate with location data and crowd analytics | Today, German location data and crowd analytics provider Ariadne is announcing the completion of a $7 million Series A round.
Capturing visitors with industry-leading accuracy, Ariadne enables a wealth of real-time information never existed... |
| 02.05.2023 | SMPnet raises $1.4 million as it puts the power back in to grid operators hands | UK-based SMPnet has raised a $1.4 million to bring its power grid technology to markets in the US and Europe. Currently with teams in Scotland and England, the real-time control software helps traditional power grids deal with 'untraditiona... |
| 06.04.2023 | Velos Rotors snags $2 million to help its drone helicopter production take off in the market | US-based, but with Greek origins (Xylokastro, specifically) drone helicopter start-up Velos Rotors has announced a $2 million Seed round by Marathon Venture Capital. Funds will help Velos further develop its drone tech and bring it to a lev... |
| 13.03.2023 | What Augmenta’s $110M Acquisition Means for the Greek Deep Tech Ecosystem | Greece ~
• Greek startup Augmenta, which delivers deep tech solutions for agriculture, announced getting acquired for $110M by CNH Industrial, an agriculture equipment and services company.
• Augmenta’s acquisition marks important milestone... |
| 12.01.2023 | UK-based Hack The Box secures €51M for its ‘gamified’ cybersecurity training and upskilling platform | UK-based Hack The Box, an online gamified cybersecurity upskilling and talent assessment platform, announced on Wednesday, January 11, that it has raised $55M (approximately €51.09M) in a Series B round of funding.
The company says it will ... |
| 14.10.2022 | This VC-backed Greek Defense Startup Bets on AI to Prevent War Conflicts | Athens, Greece ~
Each year EU member states spend hundreds of billions on their defense budgets. However, conflicts such as the war in Ukraine illustrate that Europe is still far from safe.
And while the continent’s answer has always been t... |
| 13.07.2022 | Meet the Greek tech giants you didn’t know about | Until now, Greece only had one widely reported unicorn: VivaWallet, a neobank which JP Morgan acquired a minority stake in earlier this year for an estimated €1.5bn.
But there are other tech titans from Greece that have flown largely under ... |
| 03.02.2022 | Marathon Venture Capital adds to its newest fund to back Greek founders around the globe | Marathon Venture Capital, an Athens, Greece-based venture firm cofounded in 2017 by two stalwarts of the Greek startup scene, has added €30 million in capital commitments to its second fund roughly a year after completing a first close with... |
| 02.02.2022 | Marathon Ventures, One of Colombia’s Largest Venture Capital Funds, Launches $26M Fund to Accelerate Startup Growth in Emerging Markets | BOGOTA, Columbia, Feb. 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Marathon Ventures, a Colombian-based venture capital firm, announced that it has closed its first fund of $26M. The fund, one of the largest in Colombia, will be used to invest in nearly 2... |
| 02.02.2022 | Marathon Ventures, One of Colombia's Largest Venture Capital Funds, Launches $26M Fund to Accelerate Startup Growth in Emerging Markets | New Fund Will Focus on Investments in Early-Stage Venture B2B Companies to Speed Up Their Time to Execution
BOGOTA, Columbia, Feb. 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Marathon Ventures, a Colombian-based venture capital firm, announced that it has... |
| 20.10.2021 | Greek-founded Ariadne Maps grabs €2M to empower physical businesses with privacy-first analytics | Germany, Greece, USA ~
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Ariadne Maps, an analytics platform built to assist physical businesses, just grabbed €2 million in a seed round led by Marathon Venture Capital. The company founded by Greek entrepreneurs and with offices in... |
| 16.07.2021 | Marathon VC with a fresh investment in data analytics startup Avrio | Athens, Greece ~
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Greek investor Marathon VC is leading the pre-seed round of data analytics startup Avrio. The total funding amounts to $830K. Angel investors also participated in the round, including Patrick Thompson, co-founder, ... |
| 15.07.2021 | Online course creation and marketplace LearnWorlds raises $32 million | Billing itself as, “the shopify for online courses,” Cyprus-based LearnWorlds has seen the demand for its offering skyrocket overnight. Building on a 3x growth rate, the firm has raised $32 million via Insight Partners. The funding is slate... |
| 14.07.2021 | Collaborative research and insights platform Avrio raises €700,000 | As any founder will tell you, the bigger you scale, the bigger the silos become. Dashboards, docs, threads, knowledge in your co-founders head, it can quickly spin out of control and manage what’s what and where is where. Avrio is a browser... |
| 23.06.2021 | Daily funding roundup - June 22nd, 2021 | Gloat raised $57M; Sporttrade landed $36M; Majority secured $19M, Coinme picks up $10M
G2: G2 is a Chicago-based software marketplace that features peer reviews that help simplify the buying process. G2 raised $157 million in Series D fundi... |
| 23.06.2021 | A Greek academic spin-off that aims to build a better internet backbone with new $1.5M | Athens, Greece ~
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Code BGP, which develops commercial solutions for network operators, has raised a $1.5M seed investment from the Greek early-stage fund Marathon Venture Capital. The startup aims to expand its remote and physical t... |
| 21.05.2021 | The Greek Causaly raises $17M to help medical experts get through mountains of data | Athens, Greece ~
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The Greek ML startup Causaly just raised $17M in Series A in a round led by the international Index Ventures, with the participation of the Greek Marathon Ventures. Marathon Ventures led the first seed investment o... |
| 20.05.2021 | London-based BioMed connect-the-dots platform Causaly raises $17 million in Series A round | London’s AI/machine learning platform that puts all the pieces together in a heartbeat Causaly has raised $17 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures. Marathon, Pentech, and EBRD also participated. As part of the deal Index Ventur... |
| 11.05.2021 | In search of the right VC and accelerator: a guide for SEE founders | Company:
Take a detailed look behind the numbers, approaches, and terms of some of the venture capital funds and accelerators in Romania, Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria, which together make available more than €450M for investment in innovati... |
| 13.04.2021 | The Greek cybersecurity training platform Hack the Box raises $10.6M to replace certification with gamification | Athens, Greece ~
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Everything can be made easily understandable and captivating with gamification – even training in cybersecurity, and with this vision in mind, the Greeks Haris Pylarinos and Aris Zikopoulous, and the British James ... |
| 24.03.2021 | Precision farming startup Augmenta raises $8M Series A round on its way to automating crop fertilization and reducing pollution | Company:
On March 23, 2021, the automation farming startup Augmenta announced closing its $8M Series A round with the support of tractor manufacturer CNH Industrial N.V., EU impact investor Pymwymic, as well as previous investors Marathon V... |
| 23.03.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Tractor retrofitter Augmenta raises $8m in Series A round led by CNH Industrial | Augmenta — a Paris-headquartered startup which retrofits tractors with ‘smart’ tech capabilities — has raised $8 million in Series A funding, co-founder and CEO George Varvarelis told AFN.
Capital goods company and manufacturer of agricultu... |
| 05.02.2021 | As location becomes irrelevant, Greek VCs eye local talent and spread their wings | According to a recent report on Greece’s startup ecosystem by management consultants Found.ation, venture capital and venture debt have continued to grow in the country, although its angel scene remains low-key.
Oddly enough, 2020 was a ban... |
| 03.02.2021 | Startup Cities in SEE: Who Is Who In The Emerging Athens Ecosystem | Athens, Greece ~
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The Greek startup ecosystem is one of the most active in the Southeast Europe (SEE) region, with Athens winning an award for European Capital of Innovation in 2018. Next to emerging local tech ventures, an increasi... |
| 19.11.2020 | Greece’s Marathon Venture Capital completes first close for Fund II, reaching $47M | Marathon Venture Capital in Athens, Greece has completed the first closing of its second fund, reaching the €40 million / $47 million mark. Backing the new fund is the European Investment Fund, HDBI, as well as corporates, family offices an... |
| 11.10.2019 | Greek agtech startup Augmenta raises €2.3 million seed round for its tractor-camera that scans and analyses crops | In an era of climate change and rapid population growth, farmers have never before been asked to produce more with less.
There is a need for easy-to-use, inexpensive and reliable solutions that allow farmers to treat every inch of their far... |
| 09.10.2019 | Greek AgriTech Augmenta raises $2.5M from Hardware Club and Marathon Venture Capital | Photo: https://startupper.gr/η-augmenta-στους-τελικούς-του-masschallenge-texas/
Greek Agritech startup Augmenta, a company that develops a precision agriculture app for farmers, raises $2.5 million in a seed round led by San Francisco Hardw... |
| 08.10.2019 | Augmenta raises $2.5m seed round from Hardware Club, Marathon VC | Precision agriculture technology may be both financially and environmentally promising, but it has a bias: it can be unaffordable to the average farmer.
Greek startup Augmenta is trying to change that. The company has developed a retrofit d... |
| 01.04.2019 | UK-founded Hack The Box raises $1.3M to build the world’s largest hacker community | The British-Greek cybersecurity startup Hack the Box has announced a $1.3M investment to further their effort in becoming the world’s largest hacker community.
As more and more data is collected online, companies become increasingly vulnera... |
| 02.10.2018 | EXCLUSIVE: Centaur Analytics Raises $3m Seed Round for Post-Harvest Crop Monitoring | Californian startup Centaur Analytics has raised $3 million from a consortium of investors led by early-stage tech investor Marathon Venture Capital.
Centaur is a sensing and IoT platform providing post-harvest monitoring to the agricultura... |
| 26.07.2018 | London’s Causaly announces $1m seed investment | Causaly, a London- and Athens-based AI for cause and effect discovery announces the completion of a $1 million seed investment. Causaly's machine reading platform analyses millions of documents to create unique knowledge graphs highlighting... |
| 19.07.2018 | Athens-based Augmenta announces $600k seed investment | Augmenta, a developer of next-generation, fully automated precision applications for agriculture, announces the completion of a $600k seed investment by Marathon Venture Capital.
Based in Athens, Greece and Texas, Augmenta's software and pl... |
| 17.07.2018 | Augmenta Raises $600k Seed Round for Plug & Play Automation on the Farm | Augmenta, an ag IoT and automation startup based out of Athens, Greece and Austin, Texas, has raised $600k in seed funding from Marathon Venture Capital, a tech investor focused on entrepreneurs from Greece.
The startup manufactures a plug ... |
| 05.07.2018 | Greek-founded InAccel announces $600,000 seed investment from Marathon VC | InAccel Inc., a provider of FPGA cloud hardware accelerators, announces the completion of a $600,000 seed investment from Athens-based Marathon Venture Capital. The investment comes from Marathon's recently closed €32 million seed fund.
Big... |
| 01.02.2018 | Greece’s Marathon VC announces €32 million fund to back seed stage startups | Marathon Venture Capital, a Greek VC firm, has announced the second closing of its seed fund, bringing the total to €32 million.
The Athens-based firm was founded in 2017. It invests in early stage tech companies, leading seed rounds and in... |
| 20.10.2017 | Marathon VC invests $ 1.6 million in the Swedish-Greek Norbloc blockchain platform | Norbloc's CEO Astyanax Kanakakis and COO Sam Saatchi /Photo credit: https://www.breakit.se
Norbloc, the RegTech blockchain platform focused on know-your-customer (KYC) solutions raised $1.6 million in a new seed funding round led by the Gre... |
| 18.10.2017 | Blockchain KYC Startup Raises $1.6 Million in Seed Funding | A blockchain startup focused on know-your-customer (KYC) solutions has raised $1.6 million in a new seed funding round.
Norbloc's round was led by Marathon Venture Capital, a VC firm based in Greece that launched in March. Other participant... |
| 23.08.2017 | China: Marathon Venture Partners leads $14m Series B in insurance platform Baozhunniu | Premium
Baozhunniu, an online insurance platform, has raised an RMB100 million ($14 million) Series B round led by Marathon Venture Partners.
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| 22.03.2017 | Athens gets a new venture fund | Raising money for a venture fund is almost never easy, but it’s a whole lot harder in certain places that are struggling economically, like Greece.
Thankfully for the country, a new seed-stage firm has formed, called Marathon VC, that’s cur... |
| - | Marathon Ventures raises $26m for maiden fund | - |
| - | Privacy-focused crowd analytics platform Ariadne Maps raises €2 million | Munich-based “analytics platform for the physical world with a focus on privacy” Ariadne Maps has raised €2 million in a seed funding round. The company focuses on areas with heavy foot traffic and helps organisations understand people flow... |
| - | Collaborative research and insights platform Avrio raises €700,000 | As any founder will tell you, the bigger you scale, the bigger the silos become. Dashboards, docs, threads, knowledge in your co-founders head, it can quickly spin out of control and manage what’s what and where is where. Avrio is a browser... |
| - | London-based BioMed connect-the-dots platform Causaly raises $17 million in Series A round | London’s AI/machine learning platform that puts all the pieces together in a heartbeat Causaly has raised $17 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures. Marathon, Pentech, and EBRD also participated. As part of the deal Index Ventur... |
| - | Online course creation and marketplace LearnWorlds raises $32 million | Billing itself as, “the shopify for online courses,” Cyprus-based LearnWorlds has seen the demand for its offering skyrocket overnight. Building on a 3x growth rate, the firm has raised $32 million via Insight Partners. The funding is slate... |
