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Portfolio News

• Dronamics to test fossil-free synthetic fuel in long-range cargo drones, with a view to commercial use. Read more.
• Join DRUID AI product launch on October 25th, to discover its new and improved conversational business applications. Read more.
• Golee wins the Startup Contest! Read more.

Active Investment Opportunities

🏦 Citizen is a UK-based FinTech company raising €4 million Series A round to redefine payments. The round is led by Fin Capital, with an impressive Fintech portfolio of unicorns. Explore this opportunity.

🎥 Videobolt.net is a Serbian MarTech raising €450,000 Late Seed to empower the growth of businesses and creators. The lead investor in the round is South Central Ventures which invested in Hunch and Agremo. Explore this opportunity.

Investors resources pick

The journey toward an exit

The founders sit in the driver's seat. In the co-pilot seat are the active investors. In the back seat are many other investors who join in for the ride.

Radu Georgescu uses this analogy to explain who sits at a startup's table and the role these actors play in an exit, taking a closer look at SanoPass' recent liquidity event. A must-read.

VC Spotlight: DSTDST has one of the craziest track records of all time, being one of the globally leading internet investment firms with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Beijing and Hong Kong. The fund has an estimated $50 billion in assets under management. Somehow, it still slips under the radar. The fund has 36 exits, most notable being Meta, Twitter, AirBnB, Spotify, Revolut, Alibaba and Slack. Read the profile here.

Greek trends shaping the investment landscape

“The appetite for innovation is increasing and comes from established wealthy families and business leaders. These family offices invested more than 200M EUR in local tech companies, and even though they are not making every move public, we manage to find out what’s happening by staying in permanent contact with them." Learn more from Panagiotis Karampinis, Endeavour Greece.

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