About Athenian Venture Partners
Athenian Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1997. It is primarily based out of Fort Lauderdale, United States. As of May 2014, Athenian Venture Partners has invested in 25 companies. It primarily invests in Series C round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Life Sciences to High Tech and Food and Agriculture Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series B round of Aerpio Therapeutics Overall, Athenian Venture Partners portfolio has seen 2 IPOs and 7 acquisitions including key companies like Akebia Therapeutics, Servion and Comet Solutions. A lot of funds co-invest with Athenian Venture Partners, with names like Novartis Venture Fund sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Athenian Venture Partners has team of 1 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Series B, Series C & 2 more
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Soonicorns
Athenian Venture Partners' List of Top Investments
Athenian Venture Partners has a portfolio of 25 companies. Their most notable investments are in CancerVax and Sendio.Their portfolio spans across United States, China and India. They have invested in Life Sciences, High Tech, Food and Agriculture Tech and 13 other sectors, across stages such as Series B, Series C and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Athenian Venture Partners:Developing therapeutics solutions to treat patients with kidney disease. The company's lead candidate is Vafseo is approved as a treatment for anemia due to CKD in both dialysis-dependent and non-dialysis dependent adult patients.
Key facts about Akebia Therapeutics
- Founded Year: 2007
- Location: Cincinnati (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $100M - $500M as on Dec 31, 2025
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $91M
- Employee Count: 270 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Longitude Capital, Novo Holdings and 13 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Jan 30, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. Manta
An online listing platform for small businesses. The company maintains comprehensive databases for individual businesses, industry segments, and geographic-specific listings. They also offer educational resources, promotion opportunities, and tools for small businesses. Business owners can create, manage, and share an online profile for their business, promote their companies, products, and services, as well as engage with other businesses on the platform.
Key facts about Manta
- Founded Year: 2005
- Location: Lehi (United States)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $49.2M
- Employee Count: 311 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Village Capital, Norwest and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Nov 29, 2016, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Servion
Servion is a platforms led solutions provider for customer experience management solutions across multiple channels. The company provides proprietary platforms ServDesign, ServIntuit, ServInsights, ServCloud and ServCare to build their customer experience management hub. ServDesign is a business consulting framework for customer journey design and improvement; ServInsights is a mutli-channel contact center analytics platform which integrates data from multiple sources and enterprise sources to enable informed decision making; ServIntuit is an omni-channel customer experience platform; ServCare, a managed service offering for customer engagement centers; ServCloud, a cloud-based platform to transform contact centers into an omni-channel customer engagement hub.The company also provides platforms and solutions for customer journey analytics, contact center analytics and workforce optimization. Servion also has developed AI enabled virtual customer service agents for deployment in customer service hubs. The company uses its proprietary platforms to offer Customer Experience Management Hubs, Contact Center design and consulting solutions as well as unified communications and collaboration solutions in partnership with Avaya and Cisco. As of May 2017, the company claims to manage over 10 billion customer interactions across 60 countries on 6 continents and has reported revenues of $75M. Everstone Group has invested close to $74M in the company and Evertech Pte Ltd, a technology investment platform of Everstone Capital and investment firm Solmark Inc holds a majority stake in the company.
Key facts about Servion
- Founded Year: 2004
- Location: Chennai (India)
- Annual Revenue: ₹100 - ₹500 Cr as on Mar 31, 2025
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $87.2M
- Employee Count: 1,062 as on May 31, 2025
- Investors: Cisco Investments, Everstone Capital and 17 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Angel, May 18, 2018, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
4. CancerVax
Key facts about CancerVax
- Founded Year: 1998
- Location: Carlsbad (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $58M
- Employee Count: 6 as on Nov 06, 2025
- Investors: Western Technology Investment, China Developement Bank and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Oct 13, 2023, $*****
Comet is a provider of simulation software for product development. The product offerings include SimApps, a suite of simulation software with modules as the gearbox, space systems, consume products, electronics, and automotive. The product is computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis solution to design and simulate the products. It also provides CAE consultation services, training, and development services. The clientele includes American Axle & Manufacturing, Intel, Magna, NASA, Aerospace, General Dynamics, etc.
Key facts about Comet Solutions
- Founded Year: 2001
- Location: Albuquerque (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $21.2M
- Employee Count: 11 - 50 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Sun Mountain Capital, Fort Washington Investment Advisors and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Aug 23, 2016, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Athenian Venture Partners' Investments by Stage
Athenian Venture Partners has made 4 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $15.4M, 4 investments in Series C stage with an average round size of $12.9M, 3 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $38.3M and 1 investment in Series D stage with an average round size of $35M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series B | 4 |
Series C | 4 |
Series A | 3 |
Series D | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Athenian Venture Partners' Investments by Sector
Athenian Venture Partners has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Life Sciences, Enterprise Infrastructure and Semiconductors. Notably, it has invested in 18 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 15 Tech companies, 9 Software companies and at least 4 companies focusing on Tech hardware.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 4 |
High Tech | 4 |
Life Sciences | 4 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 2 |
Semiconductors | 2 |
Others | 14 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Athenian Venture Partners' Investments by Geography
Athenian Venture Partners has made most investments in United States (11), followed by China where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 11 |
China | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Athenian Venture Partners' recent investments
Athenian Venture Partners has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Athenian Venture Partners:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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May 06, 2014 | United States | Series B | 3003 | [+4] | |
Dec 03, 2013 | United States | Series C | 3398 | [+1] | |
Nov 15, 2013 | United States | Series A | 3694 | [+4] | |
Nov 06, 2013 | United States | Series A | 2335 | ||
Oct 15, 2013 | United States | Series C | 4410 | - |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Athenian Venture Partners' Portfolio
2 of Athenian Venture Partners' portfolio companies have become public. Aerpio Therapeutics got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Aug 2017 and Akebia Therapeutics got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) at marketcap of $328M.Here are Athenian Venture Partners' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
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Aug 09, 2017 | Nov 06, 2013 | Series A | 2711 | |
Mar 20, 2014 | Jun 16, 2010 | Series A | 4324 |
Acquired companies in Athenian Venture Partners' Portfolio
7 companies from Athenian Venture Partners' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Servion in Nov 2023 by EMK Capital for $*****.Here are Athenian Venture Partners' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 03, 2023 | - | - | 9294 | |
Feb 25, 2020 | Oct 15, 2013 | Series C | 1898 | |
Sep 25, 2018 | Jan 22, 2010 | Series B | 6748 | |
Oct 24, 2016 | - | - | 5430 | |
Oct 04, 2012 | Aug 14, 2009 | Series C | 1985 |
Team profile of Athenian Venture Partners
Athenian Venture Partners has a team of 1 member located in United States. Athenian Venture Partners' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Athenian Venture Partners
Over the past 24 years, 54 investors have co-invested in Athenian Venture Partners's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Athenian Venture Partners: Momentum Venture Management, Flywheel Ventures and 7 others have invested in rounds before Athenian Venture Partners. There are 2 companies where Momentum Venture Management has invested before Athenian Venture Partners and 1 company where Flywheel Ventures has invested before Athenian Venture Partners.
- Top Co-investors of Athenian Venture Partners: 32 investors entered a company along with Athenian Venture Partners. These include investors like Novartis Venture Fund (3 companies).
- Invested after Athenian Venture Partners: A total of 13 investors have invested in Athenian Venture Partners's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Genechem (2 companies), Blue Chip Venture (1 company) and Novo Holdings (1 company).
Recent News related to Athenian Venture Partners
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Investors - Comet SolutionsComet Solutions•Mar 31, 2014•Comet Solutions, Athenian Venture Partners, Sun Mountain Capital, Fort Washington Investment Advisors
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Prioria Robotics Secures $5.5m Funding to Drive Growth of UAS PlatformsUnmanned Systems Technology•Jun 25, 2012•Prioria, Advantage Capital, Athenian Venture Partners, Florida Gulfshore Capital
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Comet Solutions Raises $2M in Series B Round of Funding |FinSMEsFinSMEs•Jan 25, 2010•Comet Solutions, Athenian Venture Partners, Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Flywheel Ventures and 2 others
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LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals Finalizes Agreement for $28M Series ’C’ Financing RoundPR Newswire•Mar 18, 2008•LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals, Forward Ventures, MedImmune Ventures, Athenian Venture Partners and 4 others
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PR Newswire•Jun 09, 2005•Verus Pharmaceuticals, Domain Associates, Prospect Venture Partners, MPM BioImpact and 4 others
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