George Papanikolaou

Private Equity

📍 Greece, Greece🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2022
VC🌍 Greece
7
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2
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4
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8y
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Investor
Apr 2022
Solstar Space is the leading commercial space-based connectivity company pioneering the use of persistent communications services for all types of on-orbit assets including satellites, space stations, launch vehicles, and more. We provide an internet connection between spacecraft and payload managers, satellite operators, and enable orbital and suborbital communications for crewed missions. Our fast, reliable services, space-tested routers, Wi-Fi access points, and hotspots, and satellite space communicators and data relays are being developed to deliver on-orbit persistent connectivity and are supported by 24/7 customer care. These assets are installed on satellites and spacecraft prior to launch to keep crew, spacecraft, and Earth-based satellite operations teams connected. Solstar is a mobile satellite services (MSS) company founded to provide commercial Internet Protocol (IP) data, local Wi-Fi, and voice communications services for astronauts and things in space. Solstar’s modern space-to-ground communications services use existing and emerging commercial satellite constellation networks. Meaning, Solstar does not need to launch its own satellite constellation and we leverage $billions of satellite networks paid for by others. This makes sense since Solstar and its heritage companies have established suppliers and professionals built over the past 22 years. Solstar was formed specifically to provide commercial satellite communications services for space-to-space and space-to-ground applications. Solstar’s founders have owned and operated three MSS companies since 1999. Solstar’s business is the result of 12 years of internal research and development (IR&D) investment to develop space communications technologies. We also leverage our unfunded Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program (FOP) awarded to Solstar in 2013, to mature our space communications technology.
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Jan 2022
At ChowVerified, weve created a new norm for wellness shopping. We do this by providing immersive insights into wellness products through A.I powered product content analysis and in-depth customer review assessments. This solution empowers customers to inform and be informed about the products they buy. On ChowVerified, all products are tested and recorded on a decentralized ledger (blockchain), giving users unprecedented market transparency. We are solving the "Snake Oil" (Product Authenticity) issue in the wellness marketplace for products, devices, and services due to little to no regulation.
Investor
Jan 2022
Introducing Wellness 3.0 Blawesome is a powerful set of tools for the next generation of Wellness Creators to bring special experiences, exclusive content, and close connections to their communities, with no crypto experience needed. Creators can create communities, post videos, create courses and micro-lessons, launch tokens and crowdfunds, create and sell NFTs, and use governance and community tools, within a platform designed specifically to support every members health and wellbeing. Blawesome is designed to be the simplest and most effective introduction for any Wellness Creator and their communities to purposeful web3 ownership. We started Blawesome because we believe that digital ownership, powered by blockchains, is the most effective way to improve how Wellness Creators and their communities realize wellness habits, together. Our mission is to make web3 mainstream by onboarding the next million Wellness Creators and their communities.
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Sep 2021
Through tokenization, RedSwan CRE can fractionalize commercial real estate ("CRE") ownership, making CRE more accessible and attractive to smaller investors with low minimum investment thresholds. Quality, off-market CRE, historically exclusive to deep pocketed private equity and banking firms, is now available to a greater number of individual and institutional market participants. Tokenization also allows us to streamline and compress the time it takes for real estate developers and sponsors to raise equity capital for their projects. A process that traditionally takes many months to complete and requires many intermediaries and a lot of tedious paperwork can be shortened into days or weeks at lower cost. By representing CRE ownership in the form of digital tokens, the possibility of 24/7 liquidity for CRE can now be a reality. RedSwan CREs vision is for real estate, over time, to be easily traded in the secondary market like common stocks today. RedSwan CRE operates a Marketplace that showcases digital CRE investment opportunities. We attract Accredited Investors within the United States under Regulation D and International Investors outside the US under Regulation S. All investments are offered at a very affordable $1,000 minimum commitment.
mid stageReal Estate
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Jul 2021
Envel is a Harvard-founded financial technology company that leverages AI and behavioral science to optimize people’s finances in real-time and automate their budgeting, savings, and investments. Funded by the MIT Sandbox Program, angel investors, and crowdfunding, we are on a mission to make banking and investing easier and more simple for tens of millions of people. We believe that the consumer banking system is broken and no longer focuses on serving its customers' financial health. Traditional banks profit from charging lots of fees and getting you indebted and don’t offer you the freedom or advice to help organize and manage your money in a way that helps you. Envel has reinvented banking from the ground up by building a one-stop Autonomous banking app with Autopilot to organize your money automatically for you with little effort, powered by our patent-pending AI. Envel is constantly innovating and disrupting the banking world, with a 2022 roadmap that includes fractional investments, joint accounts, family accounts, and a cryptocurrency stable coin integration. Using a community-centric approach, Envel works with users to engineer new features that best meet their needs, prioritizing consumers financial health over profit. Get started here: linktr.ee/envel_ai
mid stageBanking
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Aug 2018
Executive briefings of the news you need. Join the waitlist for product launch mid-2024: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF3zupwgUiJ90O2dy5IXdCb6ZaYT28w7JCgpcUMi5z912tvA/viewform Founder: Jason Calacanis Jason Calacanis co-founded and was the CEO of Weblogs, Inc., a network of popular weblogs that was sold to AOL in November 2005. Upon joining AOL, he was appointed senior vice president. In addition, he was named general manager of AOL’s Netscape and was responsible for the July 2006 relaunch of the iconic browser as a social bookmarking news site. Investors include: Sequoia Capital, CBS, Elon Musk, Matt Coffin, Mark Cuban, Mark Pincus and Fred Wilson.
Experience · 15 entries
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Investments (7)
Founder (3)
2025
Financial Trader
Dec 2025
We are looking for profitable traders who can demonstrate an ability to react to the markets, manage risk and most importantly generate profits. We have developed in house trading tools to assist traders in both mitigating risk and increasing trade execution efficiency. We provide our traders with a platform that encompasses educational videos, market insights, trading strategies, 1-1 mentoring sessions and custom built trading technology to assist traders of all levels on their journey towards getting funded and becoming one of our proprietary traders.
mid stageEducation
2023
Principal
Jan 2023
Sustainable Glocal Investment Partners ("SGI Partners" or "SGI") is a private investment firm that pursues compelling investment opportunities in middle market businesses. We invest responsibly by implementing bespoke Value Creation Plans based on ESG (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance) philosophies in order to create persistent value from sustainable business initiatives.
2022
Financial Trader
Sep 2022
Audacity Capital is a leading proprietary trading firm and education provider with a 13-year legacy of empowering traders around the globe. Headquartered in London, our team of skilled professionals manages the firm’s capital from our trading floor in the heart of the City. Since our founding, we’ve supported over 1 million traders worldwide and paid out more than $500 million in profits — helping traders thrive through every market condition. We operate with no client funds, trading exclusively with our own capital across all major asset classes and global exchanges. With up to 90% profit share, we empower our traders to succeed — because when they win, we all win. At Audacity Capital, we foster a global community of like-minded individuals committed to discipline, innovation, and growth. Our entrepreneurial culture values talent, and we invest in people who want to grow with us. Our edge comes from combining intellectual capital with cutting-edge technology developed in-house. We back every trading decision with strict, prudent risk management, ensuring long-term success and resilience. If youre ready to become part of a firm thats reshaping the future of trading, we’d love to hear from you.
Country Director, Greece
Jul 2022
WeInvest is a Next Generation Venture Builder that creates Early-Stage VC Funds based on a proprietary methodology to launch 1,000 startups per year by leveraging a global ecosystem of thousands of experts, supporters, and investors. We create The Future of Work in Company Building.
Investor
Apr 2022
Solstar Space is the leading commercial space-based connectivity company pioneering the use of persistent communications services for all types of on-orbit assets including satellites, space stations, launch vehicles, and more. We provide an internet connection between spacecraft and payload managers, satellite operators, and enable orbital and suborbital communications for crewed missions. Our fast, reliable services, space-tested routers, Wi-Fi access points, and hotspots, and satellite space communicators and data relays are being developed to deliver on-orbit persistent connectivity and are supported by 24/7 customer care. These assets are installed on satellites and spacecraft prior to launch to keep crew, spacecraft, and Earth-based satellite operations teams connected. Solstar is a mobile satellite services (MSS) company founded to provide commercial Internet Protocol (IP) data, local Wi-Fi, and voice communications services for astronauts and things in space. Solstar’s modern space-to-ground communications services use existing and emerging commercial satellite constellation networks. Meaning, Solstar does not need to launch its own satellite constellation and we leverage $billions of satellite networks paid for by others. This makes sense since Solstar and its heritage companies have established suppliers and professionals built over the past 22 years. Solstar was formed specifically to provide commercial satellite communications services for space-to-space and space-to-ground applications. Solstar’s founders have owned and operated three MSS companies since 1999. Solstar’s business is the result of 12 years of internal research and development (IR&D) investment to develop space communications technologies. We also leverage our unfunded Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program (FOP) awarded to Solstar in 2013, to mature our space communications technology.
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