Vaios Gkitsas

Founder & CEO

Upset Partners

Upset is the best Go-to-Market partner for B2B startups. 

We blend top-notch AI tools with great sales talent to help founders land new customers and break into new markets in the most time and cost-efficient way.

Chief Executive Officer

Pavilion

Executive Member

Spool-App

Spool empowers revenue teams with AI-driven insights that were previously inaccessible, significantly reducing sales cycles and increasing conversion rates. 

By leveraging advanced AI, Spool optimizes pre-call preparation, ensuring that SDRs, BDRs, and AEs are equipped with precise, actionable data before every meeting.

SaaStock

SaaStock is Europe's largest event for SaaS businesses. At SaaStock Local we produce quarterly, highly focussed events that deliver the SaaStock experience on a local scale. My role as Athens City Leader is to build and connect the SaaS community in Athens and SE Europe.

Saastock City Leader

Hub71

Supporting the world's most ambitious early stage entrepreneurs through the emerging global tech ecosystem of Abu Dhabi and Hub71 (Mubadala fund).

Executive in Residence

Antler

Antler is a global early-stage VC enabling and investing in the world's most exceptional people.

Entrepreneur In Residence

500 Startups

Mentoring great B2B SaaS entrepreneurs at 500 Startups.

500 Startups is a San Francisco based early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator. It has invested in over 2,000 startups across 60+ countries. It runs an incubation and accelerator program emphasizing design & user experience, distribution & customer acquisition, and lean startup practices & metrics.

Our team and mentors have had operational experience at companies such as: PayPal, Google, YouTube, Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay, LinkedIn, Twitter, Apple & Facebook.

Mentor

Flashchat

B2B SaaS - Flashchat is a Conversational Marketing Platform that helps eCommerce businesses to convert their audience using automated, short, personalized conversations via Facebook Messenger.

RIP - Pivoting again and again searching for the wave of Facebook Messenger that never really reached the SMEs. Congrats to the team for their stamina and for their persistence to make it happen.

blackbox.vc

Blackbox is a Google for Entrepreneurs sponsored program that opens the doors of Silicon Valley to global founders in order to give them the connections, knowledge, and tools they need to make their startup a success from anywhere in the world.

Founder Accelerator 

Forward.

B2B SaaS - Forward is a Conversational Marketing Platform that helps Mobile Operators to reduce churn automating personalized offers through SMS.

Mastering the 0 to 1 phase of B2B startups -  10x impact.

Supporting /Growing the most ambitious early stage B2B startups; 15+ years building and exiting B2B software businesses.

If you need help with your Go-to-Market strategy & implementation, feel free to DM.

Spool is the world's first on-call collaboration tool for customer-facing teams.

It helps teams to increase win-rates and reduce admin cost by collecting and accessing team insights in real time during sales meetings.

What a week for Europe

🚀 Revolut → $75B
🚀 Mistral AI → ~$12B
🚀 ElevenLabs → $200M ARR / $6.6B
🚀 ReOrbit → €45M
🚀 Fyxer AI → $30M / $17M ARR
🚀 Proxima Fusion → €145M
🚀 Teton  → $20M

The signal is loud and clear. 
Europe can win the AI + innovation game. And it’s not just London, Paris, or Berlin anymore. Founders are breaking through from every corner of the map. 

But here’s the thing nobody says out loud. 
It’s not just about the tech or the raise. The teams that really take off are the ones that figure out how to get their product in the hands of the right people early.

It’s about sharpening the story, knowing who actually cares, testing fast and building momentum step by step. 

Call it market feel, call it distribution, call it simply “getting out of the building”, that’s the difference between noise and breakout. 

To the founders in emerging ecosystems: Keep pushing. 
The capital is starting to flow. The talent is here. The energy is real. 

Europe doesn’t just have potential. It has proof.


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