Big Pi Ventures

Big Pi Ventures, established in 2017 and headquartered in Athens, Greece, is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in innovative technology companies. The firm focuses on backing founders developing proprietary technologies that address significant global challenges, with a particular interest in computer science, artificial intelligence, life sciences, and climate technologies. Big Pi Ventures typically invests between $0.5 million to $3 million per round, targeting both Greece and the United States. The firm's team, comprising experienced entrepreneurs, provides not only capital but also strategic guidance and operational support to help portfolio companies succeed.

Alex Eleftheriadis

Partner

Achilleas Gravanis

Venture Partner

Cassandra Kosmidou

Associate

Melina Mai

Technology Investment Associate

Past deals in Greece

TileDB

Series A in 2020
TileDB, Inc. develops and maintains a system for managing multi-dimensional array data, particularly suited for scientific applications. The company's offerings include TileDB Embedded, a storage engine, and TileDB Cloud, which facilitates the management of array data in the cloud. Designed to handle a variety of data types, including unstructured multimodal data, TileDB addresses the complexities encountered in fields such as genomics, biomedical imaging, and multiomic data analysis. This foundational software is utilized by research teams in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to enhance their data platforms and drive scientific discovery. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, TileDB also has a location in Athens, Greece.

Athroa Innovations

Seed Round in 2019
Athroa Innovations, founded in 2019 and based in Athens, Greece, specializes in commercializing deep science inventions through the licensing of intellectual property (IP). The company provides innovators with an alternative to launching start-ups by facilitating IP licensing, allowing them to concentrate on advancing their core research. Athroa Innovations also offers a competitive advantage in prototyping, leveraging Greece's resources to support innovators. In addition to its licensing model, the company engages in venture building and invests in sectors such as health technology, clean technology, and food technology.

Accusonus

Series A in 2019
Accusonus, Inc., established in 2015, specializes in developing innovative software tools for the professional music industry and consumer electronics sector. Based in Lexington, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Greece, the company offers a range of products including Drumatom (drum bleed reduction), Drumatom Player (leakage suppression), ERA-D (sound processing), and Regroover (AI-driven beat machine). Accusonus also provides embedded software for speech enhancement in consumer electronics. Their patented Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence technology streamlines sound processing workflows, making audio repair and music creation more accessible and efficient.

TileDB

Seed Round in 2019
TileDB, Inc. develops and maintains a system for managing multi-dimensional array data, particularly suited for scientific applications. The company's offerings include TileDB Embedded, a storage engine, and TileDB Cloud, which facilitates the management of array data in the cloud. Designed to handle a variety of data types, including unstructured multimodal data, TileDB addresses the complexities encountered in fields such as genomics, biomedical imaging, and multiomic data analysis. This foundational software is utilized by research teams in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to enhance their data platforms and drive scientific discovery. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, TileDB also has a location in Athens, Greece.

Fieldscale

Series A in 2018
Fieldscale is a company based in Thessaloniki, Greece, that specializes in developing cloud-based simulation software for the touch sensor industry. Its flagship product, SENSE, provides advanced capacitive touch sensor simulation capabilities, enabling engineers to conduct electric design and analysis with enhanced accuracy and efficiency. The software employs sophisticated algorithms within an intuitive user interface, allowing for the execution of complex simulations, including electric field analysis and assessments of dielectric breakdowns and partial discharges. By facilitating thousands of analyses and various scenarios within a single day, Fieldscale empowers engineers to optimize sensor designs while reducing power consumption, thereby improving the overall design process for touchscreen products. Founded in 2015, the company aims to provide solutions that help users achieve optimal design outcomes more quickly than their competitors.

Balena

Funding Round in 2018
Balena Inc. operates a platform that provides comprehensive tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The company offers a range of products, including balenaCloud, balenaOS, balenaFin, balenaEngine, balenaEtcher, and openbalena, which facilitate application development, device deployment, and management for fleet owners. Balena's infrastructure enables developers to focus on application growth while managing, monitoring, and updating devices through a web dashboard, API, CLI, and SDK. The platform supports Linux containers and open technologies, allowing for seamless firmware deployment and compatibility with various programming languages and libraries. Founded in 2013 and based in Seattle, Washington, Balena also has offices in Greece and the United Kingdom. The company was previously known as Resin, Inc. until its rebranding in October 2018.
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