Taneo

Taneo S.A. is a principal investment firm based in Athens, Greece, specializing in fund of funds investments. The firm primarily focuses on venture capital funds that target startups, early-stage, and expansion-stage investments, particularly in sectors such as telecommunications, information technology, e-commerce, biotechnology, and new materials. Taneo aims to invest up to $5 million per fund, specifically in funds that support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Greece, defined as companies with fewer than 50 employees and annual turnovers not exceeding €7 million or annual balance-sheet totals not exceeding €5 million. The firm typically invests a maximum of €1.5 million per enterprise within a 12-month period and maintains a minority stake in its portfolio funds, ensuring that its investment does not exceed 50 percent of total capital. Taneo excludes investments in sectors like shipbuilding, coal and steel, synthetic fibers, automobiles, real estate, and gambling, as well as in public companies. The firm seeks to exit its investments within a 12-year timeframe.

Antigoni Lymperopoulou

Investment Manager

Past deals in Greece

ClearGist

Seed Round in 2011
ClearGist offers personalization and recommendation widgets that are embeddable in any ecommerce site ClearGist recommendations are data-driven, require minimal setup and are proven to increase your sales by 10% or more

VoiceWeb

Series A in 2009
VoiceWeb is a pioneer company in speech applications and speech analytics. VoiceWeb’ s Natural Language Interactions (NLI) platform, “ENELAI”, is designed as an inherently multi-channel, multilingual, multimodal, multi-domain customer engagement platform and currently supports English, Greek, Romanian, Polish, Arabic and Turkish languages with projects mainly in financial and telecommunications sectors. Additionally, VoiceWeb is active in the Mobile Marketing and VAS Sectors, with EASE, a Mobile Platform that can host Loyalty Schemes, Gaming and a multitude of VAS and Mobile Marketing Campaigns has been developed. EASE is a multi-touchpoint, multilingual and multimodal platform that can engage Mobile customers via Mobile Apps, IVR, SMS, USSD etc in order to create new revenue opportunities, increase customer engagement and reduce churn. Through its customer Data Analytics capabilities and Intelligent Dynamic Decision Making, EASE is an empowering tool for every Mobile executive since it can analyse customer behaviour and produce insights that help avoid churn and increase Average Revenues Per User (ARPU).