Dimitris Maroulis

Dimitris Maroulis is an engineer, turned business strategist, turned early-stage startup investor. He has close to 20 years of experience across investments, operations, enterprise sales, and strategy, and has lived and worked in more than 10 countries and 4 continents (Asia, Europe, North America, Australia).
He started his career in engineering, working for a renewable energy startup company in the US, and then transitioned to operational roles in the energy & construction industry in Asia Pacific (China, South Korea, Singapore). After pursuing his MBA from INSEAD (Singapore and France) in 2012, he worked as a business and operations strategist, first for BP, and then for McKinsey, serving large industrial clients in Australia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia. He continued his career as a sales director in enterprise software companies such as Oracle and UiPath, and in 2018 joined the newly established pre-seed venture capital (VC) Antler to lead their accelerator program. As part of Antler’s SEA Fund I, Dimitris built and/or invested in more than 80 startups across robotics, enterprise software, fintech, proptech, consumer, healthcare, and retail, together with international VCs such as Sequoia, Y Combinator, Founders Fund, Plug&Play, Golden Gate Ventures and others.
Dimitris returned to his homeland and co-founded the first angel co-investment pre-seed VC in Athens, Greece at the end of 2021. As a General Partner at Genesis Ventures his job is to source, assess, invest, and support early stage technology startups at the proof-of-concept, pre-seed, and seed stages. Genesis invests across sectors and geographies but are actively pursuing deals with strong and visionary teams, leveraging advanced technologies such as AI, Web3, and AR/VR, and tackling big problems in large and growing markets of the real economy, such as health/bio-tech, education, and food/agri-tech.