PJ Tech Catalyst

PJ tech catalyst fund is a venture capital fund that invests in seed stage start-up companies in Greece and supports the development of entrepreneurship in Greece.

Nikos Antoniou

President and CEO

Past deals in Greece

Douleutaras.Com Limited

Seed Round in 2016
Douleutaras (Greek name)/Easyhero (international name) is the professional services market leader in Greece and Cyprus. Having solved the biggest industry growth barrier and created the best-in-class product, the company has initiated its international expansion, going after the €250B market in Europe.

Fieldscale

Seed Round in 2016
Fieldscale P.C. designs and develops simulation software solutions for electric design and analysis aspects. It offers three-dimensional integration technology; interconnect line, and power/high voltage application solutions for semiconductor/electronic design automation and energy industries. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Thessaloniki, Greece.

ParkAround

Seed Round in 2013
ParkAround B.V. operates a platform that allows users to choose the area, compare car parks, and book the spot for their cars in cities, airports, and ports in Netherlands. Its platform provides information and a means to locate parking spaces offered by third party car park operators, owners, or other commercial parking spaces operators requested through the use of its application on mobile devices. The company was formerly known as Parking Defenders and changed its name to ParkAround B.V. in 2013. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

accusonus

Seed Round in 2016
Accusonus, Inc. develops software tools for the professional music sector. It offers drumatom, which enables engineers to reduce or eliminate drum bleed; drumatom player, a leakage suppression tool; ERA-D, a tool for sound processing; and Regroover, an artificial-intelligence beat machine that covers traditional music sampling. The company also develops embedded software products for speech enhancement for the consumer electronics industry. It offers products online. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts with additional offices in Patras and Athens, Greece.

Intale Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Intale S.A. develops a cloud based application which enables brands to communicate and interact with the retail stores and the end consumers. It creates a transparent network for the retail markets, allowing all parties to communicate, promote, sell, buy, and order. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Athens, Greece.

Pollfish

Seed Round in 2014
Pollfish is disrupting the legacy research space with a real-time survey platform, the largest distributed mobile consumer network and “organic sampling,” our next-generation sampling methodology that features randomized and spontaneous invitations delivered programmatically while the respondent is naturally engaging in one of our 10K+ partner apps. We combine all of this with advanced machine learning techniques to identify and eliminate poor quality respondents at the question level for a truly end-to-end experience from invitation through to completion.

Offerial

Seed Round in 2013
Offerial converts hotel website visitors through personalized marketing. Hotels and hospitality companies today hold a great amount of unused data on their hands. Web and business analytics are our key focus as they hide all the valuable information regarding a hotel’s sales and marketing. By applying our state-of-the-art algorithmic approaches, we unveil the hidden potential behind each property by making the online booking process data-driven, intelligent, real-time and constantly self-learning for optimizing performance.

Mist.io

Seed Round in 2014
Mist.io, Inc. provides cloud management and monitoring services. Its services enable users to control and send commands from phones or tablets; monitor system and application metrics, and real time analytics; get actionable alerts; set automated responses; and create, reboot, or destroy virtual machines. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Douleutaras.Com Limited

Venture Round in 2017
Douleutaras (Greek name)/Easyhero (international name) is the professional services market leader in Greece and Cyprus. Having solved the biggest industry growth barrier and created the best-in-class product, the company has initiated its international expansion, going after the €250B market in Europe.

Pinnatta

Venture Round in 2014
A leading interactive and personalised messaging application

Centaur Analytics

Seed Round in 2016
Centaur Analytics, Inc. provides wireless sensors to track, monitor, and instantly adjust the conditions in which the food is stored. The company also offers cognitive services platform for monitoring and protecting post-harvest product quality. It serves the food industry. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Ventura, California.

Captainwise

Seed Round in 2013
CaptainWise is an experienced captain whose purpose is to take you to places using as a compass your budget and your desires. The countless internet results are narrowed down, and only the ones suitable for each user's needs will be presented to them as packages, giving you the power to modify the details easily. We believe in creating an ideal travel experience which is fun, where the search is not endless or confusing but efficient and helpful. After all, the joy of a trip is not only the travel itself but also the thrill of searching for your next adventure. We just make it easy!

Pollfish

Seed Round in 2013
Pollfish is disrupting the legacy research space with a real-time survey platform, the largest distributed mobile consumer network and “organic sampling,” our next-generation sampling methodology that features randomized and spontaneous invitations delivered programmatically while the respondent is naturally engaging in one of our 10K+ partner apps. We combine all of this with advanced machine learning techniques to identify and eliminate poor quality respondents at the question level for a truly end-to-end experience from invitation through to completion.

Mist.io

Seed Round in 2016
Mist.io, Inc. provides cloud management and monitoring services. Its services enable users to control and send commands from phones or tablets; monitor system and application metrics, and real time analytics; get actionable alerts; set automated responses; and create, reboot, or destroy virtual machines. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Pinnatta

Series A in 2013
A leading interactive and personalised messaging application

novoville

Pre Seed Round in 2016
novoville transforms the way citizens interact with their councils/local governments by capturing incoming citizens’ requests for services, delivering and monitoring response, and integrating this seamlessly into organisational workflow. novoville exposes quickly the e-services of councils directly on the smartphones of citizens. This is made possible through a configurable mobile app. At the other end, a cloud dashboard allows local authorities to engage and communicate with citizens more efficiently. They can then quantify the quality of interactions and monitor the performance of used resources. Large scale data capture and subsequent processing converts everything into meaningful KPIs. in June 2017 novoville was selected among other 9 GovTech startups to participate in the GovStart Growth Program that helps tech startups trasform the UK's Public Sector. novoville is a "PUBLIC 100" company.

ParkAround

Seed Round in 2016
ParkAround B.V. operates a platform that allows users to choose the area, compare car parks, and book the spot for their cars in cities, airports, and ports in Netherlands. Its platform provides information and a means to locate parking spaces offered by third party car park operators, owners, or other commercial parking spaces operators requested through the use of its application on mobile devices. The company was formerly known as Parking Defenders and changed its name to ParkAround B.V. in 2013. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Radiojar Information Technology S.A. operates an Internet radio broadcasting and monetization platform that empowers DJs and radio owners to increase their listener base in Greece and internationally. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Athens, Greece. As of February 26, 2019, Radiojar Information Technology S.A. operates as a subsidiary of Radio Computing Services, Inc.

e-NIOS

Seed Round in 2016
e-NIOS develops a platform for unsupervised analysis and interpretation of Genomics data of multiple sources (multi -omics), with applications in Biotechnology, Drug Discovery and Personalized Medicine.

e-NIOS

Seed Round in 2014
e-NIOS develops a platform for unsupervised analysis and interpretation of Genomics data of multiple sources (multi -omics), with applications in Biotechnology, Drug Discovery and Personalized Medicine.

novoville

Seed Round in 2018
novoville transforms the way citizens interact with their councils/local governments by capturing incoming citizens’ requests for services, delivering and monitoring response, and integrating this seamlessly into organisational workflow. novoville exposes quickly the e-services of councils directly on the smartphones of citizens. This is made possible through a configurable mobile app. At the other end, a cloud dashboard allows local authorities to engage and communicate with citizens more efficiently. They can then quantify the quality of interactions and monitor the performance of used resources. Large scale data capture and subsequent processing converts everything into meaningful KPIs. in June 2017 novoville was selected among other 9 GovTech startups to participate in the GovStart Growth Program that helps tech startups trasform the UK's Public Sector. novoville is a "PUBLIC 100" company.

reEmbed

Seed Round in 2016
ReEmbed is a custom video player that supports embeds from YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion as well as HTML5 videos. It allows its users to create their own video player using the ReEmbed wizard. Its users have the ability to choose a style, add their logo, and pick their colors. Then it enables its users to match their site’s look and feel, and spread their brand when their videos are shared. ReEmbed suite allows its users to monitor performance by tracking impressions, plays, and completions. It is also capable of increasing its users’ site’s page views and user engagement with ReEmbed’s content recommendation widgets. ReEmbed was launched in 2014 and is based in Athens.

ORamaVR

Pre Seed Round in 2016
The vision of ORamaVR is to transform medical education (knowledge) and training (skills) of surgeons, through innovative virtual reality simulation and skill transfer from the virtual to the real operating room, reducing errors and improving patient outcomes. We uniquely democratize such training and education with low-cost, massively-produced VR h/w. To realize this, we have created our deep, unmatched proprietary, psychomotor, gamified and multiuser VR software platform that allows rapid prototyping of any medical procedure via massive design and code reuse. Our team is based on solid VR, Medical and educational background coupled with advanced business know-how. ORamaVR SA was founded in Greece where it received the initial seed funding from PJ Tech Catalyst and subsequently incorporated in USA as ORamaVR Inc.

ParkAround

Seed Round in 2015
ParkAround B.V. operates a platform that allows users to choose the area, compare car parks, and book the spot for their cars in cities, airports, and ports in Netherlands. Its platform provides information and a means to locate parking spaces offered by third party car park operators, owners, or other commercial parking spaces operators requested through the use of its application on mobile devices. The company was formerly known as Parking Defenders and changed its name to ParkAround B.V. in 2013. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Pollfish

Series A in 2015
Pollfish is disrupting the legacy research space with a real-time survey platform, the largest distributed mobile consumer network and “organic sampling,” our next-generation sampling methodology that features randomized and spontaneous invitations delivered programmatically while the respondent is naturally engaging in one of our 10K+ partner apps. We combine all of this with advanced machine learning techniques to identify and eliminate poor quality respondents at the question level for a truly end-to-end experience from invitation through to completion.