About PJ Tech Catalyst Fund
PJ Tech Catalyst Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 2012. It is primarily based out of Athens, Greece. As of Nov 2019, PJ Tech Catalyst Fund has invested in 19 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in Greece based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Consumer. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Accusonus Overall, PJ Tech Catalyst Fund portfolio has seen 3 acquisitions, namely Pollfish and Radiojar. A lot of funds co-invest with PJ Tech Catalyst Fund, with names like Venture Friends sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. PJ Tech Catalyst Fund has team of 4 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
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PJ Tech Catalyst Fund's List of Top Investments
PJ Tech Catalyst Fund has a portfolio of 19 companies. Their most notable investments are in ParkAround and Pollfish.Their portfolio spans across Greece, United Kingdom, United States and 1 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Consumer and 16 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by PJ Tech Catalyst Fund:1. Pollfish
AI-powered survey platform for fast, accessible market research. It provides a comprehensive suite of survey solutions, from DIY to full-service options, including survey programming, behavioral data analysis, data visualization, and questionnaire design. The platform offers tools for survey management, targeting, and results analysis, supporting various question types and methodologies like conjoint analysis and A/B testing. It emphasizes respondent quality, ensuring authentic opinions from real individuals through diverse, first-party audiences. The platform supports global reach with multilingual capabilities and provides resources, including expert consultations, to help users create effective surveys and gain valuable insights. It is a SaaS platform that offers subscription and pricing plans. It leverages Artificial Intelligence to enhance the survey creation and analysis process. The platform is designed for both B2B and B2C market research needs.
Key facts about Pollfish
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $10.2M
- Employee Count: 49 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Wahed Ventures, EBRD and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Nov 30, 2017, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
2. Novoville
Novoville provides a civic engagement platform using which local governments collaborate with their residents. For Local Government, it provides a platform to engage citizen and optimize operation efficiency, provides features like citizen engagement, interactive communication, forms customization, polls & survey preparation, request routing, request management, campaign management, analytics, and reports. For the citizen, it provides a mobile-based application using which citizen can report issues, responds to polls & survey, interactive maps, search across forms, notifications, and others.
Key facts about Novoville
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: London (United Kingdom)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $1.57M
- Employee Count: 33 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Venture Friends, London Co-Investment Fund and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Jan 03, 2021, $*****
3. Douleutaras
Douleutaras is an online listing platform that lets users find, compare and hire local service professionals in Greece. Services listed on the platform vary across categories - home repair and maintenance services, beauty services, auto services, event management, photography and enterprise services. Users can post the projects on the portal, and the platform matches the service request with up to 5 professionals. Users can compare quotes, profiles and hire a professional based on the reviews and suitability. Claims to have over 800 registered professionals on the platform as of February 2016.
Key facts about Douleutaras
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Athens (Greece)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $3.56M
- Employee Count: 56 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Venture Friends, AddVenture and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Oct 30, 2017, $*****
4. Centaur
Developer of Internet-of-Crops platform providing post-harvest quality and loss prevention. The platform combines data from sensors with environmental information and predictive models. It recommends interventions to maximize stored crop quality. The platform tracks post-harvest crop conditions, offering quality reporting and augmenting traceability. The company’s sensors monitor conditions in storage environments.
Key facts about Centaur
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Sacramento (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $6.12M
- Employee Count: 15 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Marathon Venture Capital, PJ Tech Catalyst Fund and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Nov 01, 2020, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. ParkAround
Park around is a mobile marketplace for parking garages with which drivers can locate garages, compare the prices and reserve spaces real-time or in advance. Parking operators on the other hand can maximize utilization and revenues by applying dynamic pricing based on availability. Launched in Greece with around 20,000 users. Joined Rockstart accelerator program to expand in London in Oct 2013.
Key facts about ParkAround
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Athens (Greece)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $251K
- Employee Count: 9 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: PJ Tech Catalyst Fund, Rockstart and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Oct 07, 2013, $*****
PJ Tech Catalyst Fund's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
PJ Tech Catalyst Fund has invested in 19 companies over the last 13 years, with an average of 0 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Accusonus and most recent follow-on round was in Douleutaras.PJ Tech Catalyst Fund's Investments by Stage
PJ Tech Catalyst Fund has made 13 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $621K and 3 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $2.45M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 13 |
Series A | 3 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
PJ Tech Catalyst Fund's Investments by Sector
PJ Tech Catalyst Fund has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Vertical SaaS, High Tech and Enterprise Infrastructure. Notably, it has invested in 18 Tech companies, 13 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 10 Software companies and at least 8 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 9 |
Consumer | 6 |
Vertical SaaS | 4 |
High Tech | 3 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 2 |
Others | 23 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
PJ Tech Catalyst Fund's Investments by Geography
PJ Tech Catalyst Fund has made most investments in Greece (8), followed by United States where it has made 4 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Greece | 8 |
United States | 4 |
United Kingdom | 3 |
Ireland | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
PJ Tech Catalyst Fund's recent investments
PJ Tech Catalyst Fund has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by PJ Tech Catalyst Fund:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Nov 01, 2019 | Greece | Series A | 6657 | [+2] | |
Apr 10, 2019 | United Kingdom | Seed | 9494 | [+4] | |
Oct 30, 2017 | Greece | Seed | 2687 | [+1] | |
Mar 04, 2017 | Ireland | Seed | 4937 | - | |
Nov 15, 2016 | Greece | Seed | 3998 |
Acquired companies in PJ Tech Catalyst Fund's Portfolio
3 companies from PJ Tech Catalyst Fund's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Accusonus in Feb 2022 by Meta for $*****.Here are PJ Tech Catalyst Fund's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 01, 2022 | Nov 01, 2019 | Series A | 6100 | |
Feb 01, 2022 | May 16, 2015 | Series A | 1702 | |
Feb 26, 2019 | Feb 01, 2013 | Seed | 1877 |
Team profile of PJ Tech Catalyst Fund
PJ Tech Catalyst Fund has a team of 4 members located in Greece. PJ Tech Catalyst Fund's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of PJ Tech Catalyst Fund
Over the past 13 years, 33 investors have co-invested in PJ Tech Catalyst Fund's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before PJ Tech Catalyst Fund: Openfund has invested before PJ Tech Catalyst Fund.
- Top Co-investors of PJ Tech Catalyst Fund: 22 investors entered a company along with PJ Tech Catalyst Fund. These include investors like Venture Friends (3 companies).
- Invested after PJ Tech Catalyst Fund: A total of 10 investors have invested in PJ Tech Catalyst Fund's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Europa (4 companies), EBRD (1 company) and AddVenture (1 company).
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