Myrto Papathanou is a Founding Partner at Metavallon VC, a venture capital funding early-stage technology companies stemming from Greece since 2018. For Metavallon VC, she has led deep tech investments in Think Silicon (semiconductors, acq. by Applied Materials), Seervision (robotics, acq. by Q-Sys), Better Origin (bioconversion), Advantis (medical imagining), as well as B2C investments in Ferryhopper (traveltech) and Workearly (edtech) amongst others.

Myrto started her career in London, working as a credit risk and portfolio analyst for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and later as a Fixed Income Strategist for EMEA at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Before co-founding Metavallon VC, she was Group CFO and Head of Corporate Development at EFA Group, active in the Aerospace&Defense and high-tech verticals, which includes companies Theon Sensors (electro-optics, AXE: THEON), ES Systems (MEMS), Scytalys (Command&Control Systems) and other.

Outside Metavallon VC, she serves as an independent Non-Executive Director at Thrace Group (ASE: PLAT) and at microfinance institution Action Finance Initiative SA, governed by the Bank of Greece. On the non-profit side, she has worked in economic development, financial inclusion and women’s empowerment projects in Nicaragua, Kenya and Rwanda; in Greece she cofounded ethelon in 2012.

In 2016 she was recognized by Linkage Greece as “Leader of the Year” and in 2020 she was included by Fortune magazine in the 40under40 list. Myrto is an economist, with an MSc in Finance from Imperial College and an MBA from INSEAD. Since 2019 she is a Kauffman Fellow, the first from Greece.