Pampos Ventures, founded and led by Angelos Pampos is an angel investment syndicate backing technology entrepreneurs at pre-seed and seed stage.

At Pampos Ventures, we back early-stage founders building solutions to real-world problems in Education, Healthcare, and Sustainability (all areas with massive structural inefficiencies, real-world relevance, and urgent demand). But we do it differently.

Where others chase the next round, we focus on the fundamentals. Where most seek to replicate VC behaviour, we apply a private equity mindset: careful diligence, disciplined deployment, and a sharp eye on exit potential, not just follow-on potential.

We invest in capital-efficient, mission-driven businesses with the potential to scale sustainably, whether or not they ever raise another round. Our lens is one of value creation, not just valuation inflation.

And we measure success through a 'Triple Bottom Line' lens: Profit, People and the Planet.

We call it: ‘Pre-seed with a PE mindset.’

Pampos Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage technology companies, predominantly B2B plays in Education, Healthcare and Sustainability.

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We invest via a special purpose vehicle (“SPV”), which is a legal structure designed to enable pooling together of capital from multiple people into a single investment. One of the most important benefits of this structure for founders is that the investment shows up as a single line on the cap table. Behind the SPV sits our syndicate of investors. We handle all syndicate communications, updates, and logistics, so you don’t have to. This SPV structure ensures a single clean line on your cap table, SEIS/EIS support, and a streamlined investor relationship. It’s also a VC-friendly setup, helping maintain cap table simplicity and reducing legal friction in future funding rounds.

Pampos Ventures charges no upfront or success fees to founders. If (and only if) we secure capital, a one-off admin fee may be deducted from the investment proceeds at closing to cover SPV setup cost. Fees typically start at £4,000 for smaller raises and scale with round size; capped at £10,000. For most pre-seed rounds, fees land in the £4,000–£6,000 range.

We use Odin as our SPV provider - and for full disclosure, our Managing Partner (Angelos) is also an investor in Odin. Odin provides us with all of the infrastructure to make our pooled investments possible. The platform allows us to “wrap up” all of our smaller check investors into one larger investment and we appear on the company’s cap table as a single line item/ investor.
Odin charges fees for SPV set up and administration.

We run a thorough but transparent review process designed to ensure fairness, rigour, and alignment. Here's how it typically works:

1. Initial Submission
   Once we receive your deck, we aim to review it within 1–2 weeks (depending on our pipeline and backlog).

2. Preliminary Review
   We assess the deck for alignment with our thesis and level of interest. We provide feedback to all founders, whether we proceed or not.

3. Intro Call
   If there's interest, we’ll schedule an initial call to dive deeper into your business and assess founder-fit and high-level alignment.

4. Screening Form
   If things progress, we’ll send a short screening form to gather more structured information on your business model, traction, market, and team.

5. Due Diligence
   We begin due diligence, which typically includes reviewing your data room, financials, traction metrics, and talking to customers or partners where relevant.

6. Syndicate Prep
   If the opportunity clears diligence, we finalise our PV data room and prepare materials to share with our investor syndicate.

7. Initial Syndicate Interest
   We circulate the opportunity to our members and ask for non-binding indications of interest. Only those who respond positively are given access to the full data room.

8. Investor Confirmation
   Investors who’ve reviewed the data room confirm whether they wish to commit. This helps us gauge whether there’s sufficient interest to proceed.

9. SPV Setup
   If there’s enough interest, we initiate the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) setup. This includes setting terms, finalising legal documents, and preparing for fund collection.

10. Funding and Close
    We collect funds through the SPV, complete the investment, and provide you with one clean entry on your cap table. Post-close, we support ongoing investor relations and reporting.

Our full process typically takes around 8 weeks, but can move slightly faster or slower depending on round urgency, DD complexity, and investor responsiveness.

No, we don’t lead rounds.

We’re primarily pre-seed stage investors, and we focus most of our capital and time at the earliest stages (where we believe we add the most value).

That said, we do reserve the right to participate in follow-on rounds on a selective, case-by-case basis. If we continue to have strong conviction, and we believe we can move the needle at the next stage, we may write a follow-on cheque or support syndication.

However, to be clear, we don’t have a dedicated process for follow-ons, so founders should assume that future rounds will require new external investors. We'll absolutely help you prepare and make warm intros where we can, but we won’t lead later rounds.

We aim to be the most helpful investor on your cap table, without getting in the way. We make our syndicate’s expertise available to the founders, but we never force ourselves into the day-to-day running of your business. Our support goes beyond the cheque, and typically includes:

• Founder coaching & sparring – We’re happy to challenge assumptions, help refine strategy, and act as a sounding board when needed. No fluff, just honest thinking.

• Hiring and intros – We open up our network to help with senior hires, advisors, and strategic partners in EdTech, HealthTech, and Sustainability.

• Fundraising support – We help you think through valuation, investor decks, and narrative. We also help syndicate the round and introduce you to relevant angels, funds, or follow-on investors.

• Customer and commercial introductions – Where possible, we help open doors. Many of our members are senior operators or decision-makers themselves.

• Accountability and structure – We encourage regular check-ins and reporting, not for micromanagement, but to help you stay focused, accountable, and investor-ready.

That said, every founder is different. Some want active support; others prefer to check in occasionally. We’re flexible, and always founder-led in how we engage.

Our typical timeline from initial pitch to funding decision is around 8 weeks.

We are a high-conviction syndicate, and we take our time to do proper diligence, both to stress-test the opportunity and to give our investor community time to review the materials and ask questions. We’re not in the business of rushing capital deployment - we aim to back the best founders in Education, Healthcare and Sustainability, with conviction, and that means being rigorous in our process. If you're operating under a specific fundraising deadline, it helps to flag that early.

Due diligence is important to us. To help us assess your business properly, we typically ask for the following materials during the due diligence phase:

• A detailed pitch deck (covering team, product, traction, business model, market size, competition, and financials)

• A cap table (current and post-round)

• A basic financial model or forecast (even if early-stage, we want to see your thinking on growth and costs)

• GTM strategy and any commercial contracts, pilots or LOIs that help validate demand

• Information on key metrics (e.g., users, revenues, churn, engagement - whatever’s most relevant to your business)

• Key risks and how you’re mitigating them

• Any technical or product documentation that helps explain your tech stack or IP (where relevant)

We don’t expect everything to be perfect (especially at pre-seed), but we do expect founders to be transparent, data-driven, and open to scrutiny. If we move forward, we’ll also ask for a founder interview and possibly references.

We are early-stage investors, which means we back potential; not perfection. That said, there are a few things we consistently look for:

• Team – Are the founders thoughtful, resourceful, and resilient? Do they know their space and show evidence of strong execution, not just vision?

• Market – Is this a real, growing problem in a sizeable market? Are there clear tailwinds or regulatory drivers that support adoption?

• Product – Does the product solve a genuine pain point? Is it at least 10x better, faster, or cheaper than current alternatives - or does it create a new category?

• Timing – Why now? We ask this a lot. The best opportunities are often the ones that wouldn’t have worked 3 years ago, but suddenly make sense today.

• Business Model – Do the unit economics make sense (or at least show a path to scale)? Can this be a venture-scale business with defensible margins?

• Moat – What makes this hard to replicate? Tech, data, distribution, regulation; there needs to be something that compounds over time.

• Triple Bottom Line – We measure success not just in financial return (Profit), but also in the positive impact on people and the planet. We look for start-ups that can demonstrate (or credibly aspire to) tangible impact across all three.

We don’t expect every box to be ticked on day one, but we do look for the potential to build something exceptional.

We see a lot of decks, so clarity and conciseness really help. At a minimum, your pitch deck should cover the following:

• Problem – What are you solving, and why is it urgent or important?

• Solution – What have you built, and how does it work?

• Market – How big is the opportunity? Who are your customers?

• Traction – What have you achieved so far (e.g. pilots, revenue, users)?

• Business model – How do you make money? Any proof the model works?

• Team – Who’s building this, and why are you the right people?

• Go-to-market – How do you plan to acquire and retain customers?

• Competition – Who else is tackling this, and how are you different?

• Financials – Current metrics and forward-looking projections (even if rough)

• The ask – How much are you raising, what will it fund, and what’s the valuation?

Bonus points if you also include: why now, your defensibility/moat, and any early customer or investor quotes.

We’re less interested in flashy design, more in clear thinking. If it’s early and rough, that’s OK; just make sure it’s honest and coherent.

As a UK-based investment syndicate, our main focus is on UK-based companies, due to the associated tax benefits (S/EIS Schemes) which are important for the vast majority of our members.

We will consider non-UK opportunities on a case-by-case basis, depending on the quality of the opportunity and appetite of our members.

100% yes. We always provide feedback, especially if we’ve had a meeting or done a proper review. If we’ve spent time with you, we’ll aim to share candid, constructive feedback. It might be about timing, fit, or areas we think need strengthening. It’s never personal, and we always leave the door open for future updates if things evolve.

For earlier-stage rejections, we may not be able to offer specifics, but we’ll usually let you know where you fell short relative to our core criteria (e.g. market size, traction, or alignment with our focus areas).