• Douleutaras

  Participated · Equity · Nov 2017

  Douleutaras.gr operates an online marketplace that helps people find and book professionals for a wide range of home services. Led by CEO and founder Andreas Grammatis, the platform aggregates rated professionals and user feedback to match customers with providers. The company reports a network of more than 3,500 rated professionals and says those professionals have served over 170,000 users in Greece. Douleutaras.gr raised €1.8M in its third funding round to support growth. The firm intends to use the funds to expand further within Greece—building on activity in Thessaloniki, Patras and Heraklion—and to begin international expansion. No revenue or other financial metrics were disclosed in the article. Douleutaras operates an online marketplace where freelancers post professional profiles and accept bids for work across a wide range of professions, from plumbers to engineers, marketers and lawyers. The company was launched in 2013 and focuses on emerging markets where freelancing is not yet common. It serves employers and freelancers in Greece and Eastern Europe. According to EMEA Startups, Douleutaras has raised €1 million. The funding will be used to expand the service further in Eastern Europe and possibly into Romania. The article does not provide revenue, user metrics, or details on the financing instrument or investors.

• Pollfish

  Led · Series A · Jul 2015

  Pollfish offers a mobile-first survey platform that lets anyone create DIY surveys and deliver them to app users, and it provides an Android and iOS SDK for developers to integrate surveys and monetize apps. The platform claims a reach of 120 million users in the last 12 months, runs surveys on more than 8,000 mobile apps, and hosts “millions” of surveys every month. Customers range from SMEs and individual researchers to enterprises including Oracle, OMD, Deutsche Telekom, Mondelez, Mercedes and Millward Brown. The company positions itself as an alternative revenue source for publishers and a fast source of real-time market insights for businesses. Pollfish plans to use the new capital to fund continued U.S. expansion and business development. Although its core team is based in Greece, the company is incorporated in the U.S. and says business development and marketing operate from the U.S., leaving it largely unaffected by the Greek crisis. Pollfish offers an SDK for Android and iOS that inserts survey questions as ad overlays inside mobile apps and operates a marketplace matching survey makers with app developers. Its platform handles survey targeting, distribution, and real-time collection and display of results for survey buyers. Developers integrate the lightweight SDK, can continue using other ad platforms alongside Pollfish, and—according to the company—earn at least $0.30 per completed survey. The technology measures users' openness to answering questions and calibrates prompt frequency, and provides three opt-out mechanisms to reduce friction. Developers may survey their own users for free provided they also accept outside surveys. Pollfish currently has about 400 developers worldwide and expects reach to grow as more developers sign up; the company declined to share revenue numbers but said it is "doing quite well."

• Pinnatta

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2014

  Pinnatta is a mobile messaging platform led by co-founder and CEO George Spanoudakis that enables people to exchange personalized, interactive messages and videos using gestures like touch, rub, shake, swipe, pinch or blow. The product offers a library of more than 500 interactive cards, personalized videos and customized messages. The app is available for free on iPhone, Android and Amazon devices, with planned releases for Windows and iPad in 2015. Pinnatta raised an additional $1.2M in funding and has raised $3.7M to date. The company intends to use the funds to expand into more regions, bring Pinnatta to more devices such as the iPad and hire new employees. Pinnatta builds an interactive mobile messaging app that lets users send multimedia greetings which require recipients to tap, swipe, shake or blow on their phones to reveal personalized content. The app is available for iOS and Android, with Windows Phone and iPad versions announced for release by year-end. Pinnatta offers a library of more than 500 messages and reported over 130,000 installs, with a target of 500,000 installs by the end of the year. Its monetization includes paid premium Pinnattas ($0.99–$2.99), a $4.99/month unlimited plan, and sponsored branded Pinnattas. The company operates development offices in Athens and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Funds from the latest round will be used to launch an updated version of the app and to hire engineers, a marketing manager, a product designer and other staff in the US and Greece.

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