We are hiring an Associate/Principal to lead our presence in Iberia and become a key part of the VentureFriends investment team!🇪🇸 Having invested across Europe, LatAm & MENA, we are growing the team in 🇪🇸 adding to our presence in London, Warsaw & Athens🚀 apply.workable.com/venturefriends…

Join VF's ApostolosApostolakis for a roundtable discussion on the topic of "Investing in Europe" at the Carveout Future of Investing Event at 11AM PST on 1st November. withcarveout.com/event

Congrats to the team at Tymit for raising a £23M Series A to continue their mission to make credit cards more flexible and transparent! They'll use this round to bring their tech to more merchants across the UK and Europe 💳 finextra.com/newsarticle/41…

Congrats to the team at Plum who were named as the fastest growing fintech in the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50! Plum have now launched into multiple European countries and added new ways to invest and save, we're excited to see what comes next 🏦

We're excited to support the team at Harbor Lab in their mission to digitalise payments and administrative costs at commercial ports 🚢 techcrunch.com/2022/12/07/har…

Co-founder of Huspy, Jad Antoun, speaks about the pain points of the Real Estate Industry, and his journey so far in building the leading end-to-end Proptech business globally! 🚀 👇 forbesmiddleeast.com/innovation/sta…

Even though the tech sector is going through a rebalancing, we continue to back ambitious early-stage founders. The VF team are approaching 2023 with optimism and a number of market opportunities we're excited about! venturefriends.vc/posts/2023-why…

Congrats to the team at BibeCoffee who have raised €2.1M to continue deploying their IoT coffee machine monitoring solution, that allows tracking of performance and quality in real-time! eu-startups.com/2023/01/bibeco…

The fundraising landscape for founders has changed since the highs of early 2022! Pavlos Pavlakis shares his thoughts alongside other investors about what VCs want to see at the Series A stage in this Sifted article. sifted.eu/articles/serie…

As you all know, we love #payments! In this post, George Karabelas breaks down the fundamentals of card payments and shares some interesting insights. 😉👇 venturefriends.vc/posts/card-pay…

€5Μ Seed round for embat, the treasury management platform that saves enormous time and effort from financial teams! Excited to be part of their journey from early on! Congrats to the team for their amazing progress so far 🚀👏👇 tech.eu/2023/06/26/spa…

We're thrilled to lead Measurlabs' 🇫🇮 €2.5M Seed round and welcome Teemu, Kalle and the rest of the team to the VF Family! Measurlabs makes it easy to find and procure testing services from almost 1,000 labs across Europe 👩‍🔬

Market sizing is often overlooked, yet an extremely important exercise when founding a startup or when picking its new strategic direction. Michal M. Bas shares his thoughts on how to quantify our market opportunity in a structured and actionable way 💡👇 venturefriends.vc/posts/market-s…

Employee Stock Option Plans (ESOP) are often misunderstood and underutilised in European startups. Pavlos from the VF team breaks down the key components of an ESOP and how to value the shares as a startup employee. venturefriends.vc/posts/the-empl…

It was amazing to see so many familiar faces at our event in London last night, an eclectic mix of founders, investors and operators from the local startup ecosystem! 🇬🇧

We're thrilled to continue supporting Carmoola's mission to revolutionise car finance, with a £15.5M funding round joined by QED Investors, InMotion Ventures, AlleyCorp & u.ventures! techfundingnews.com/carmoola-secur…

It was a privilege to have so many friends join us in Athens for the VF Summit this year. We had a series of enthralling panels, a rooftop dinner by the Acropolis and even a quick trip to an island with some of the international attendees 🛥️🇬🇷

A $5.2M funding round for MoneyHash, the payments orchestration platform for the Middle East and Africa! Onwards and upwards! 🚀 techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/mon…