Nikolas Samios

Nikolas Samios is a serial entrepreneur, long-time expert for transformational startups and venture capital, early sustainability advocate, and Managing Partner of PT1 Ventures.

He founded his first company around 25 years ago in parallel to doing A-Levels in Munich, Germany, and was quickly sucked into the grand new thing called "the Internet", mainly helping traditional industries like print publishers, TV stations, retail chains or banks to digitise their businesses. Around 15 years ago, he increasingly focused on the transactional aspects, financing, buying and selling startups. He set up a special family office for like-minded Internet entrepreneurs and venture capital investors that, for example, built up and managed the personal investment holdings of MP3 inventor Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg and AOL Europe founder Jan Henric Buettner.

After many years, participating in more than 100 venture capital transactions and co-authoring the German standard reference book on venture capital methodology DEALTERMS.VC, he co-founded PT1 Ventures, an early-stage VC fund upgrading the physical world. PT1 backs the boldest founders fueling Europe’s transformation, from electrification and infrastructure resilience to built world AI and robotics.

PT1 Ventures

PT1 Ventures is a European venture capital platform investing in early-stage tech that’s upgrading the physical world in three core clusters: electrification & energy transition; built world AI & automation; climate & infrastructure resilience.

With initial tickets ranging from €300k to €4M, PT1 backs the boldest founders across the UK and Europe who are redefining how we build, power and sustain our world. PT1 doesn’t just fund startups – they actively support to add value where it matters most. Combining deep domain expertise with data-driven insights, PT1 leverages their AI-enabled deal flow engine to identify and accelerate future category winners. 

Championed by their network of 100+ industry experts – from unicorn founders to corporates and industrial veterans – PT1 Ventures provides startups with collective wisdom, hands-on guidance, strategic acceleration sprints and the backing needed to scale.