Nikolas Samios
Nikolas Samios is Managing Partner of the COOPERATIVA Venture Group, a platform that provides agile yet meticulous support in all things venture for themselves and like-minded entrepreneurs based on 15 years of first-hand experience as founders, angels, venture capital managers, and LPs. Together with his team, Nikolas covers 360° of the venture capital life cycle: Direct, indirect and LP investments in startups, support in their fundraising and exit efforts, venture-centric family office services and the inception and operation of VC funds in cooperation with leading sector experts. The COOPERATIVA partners have made more than 200 venture deals, write-offs, and exits, including Delivery Hero (IPO @ Frankfurt Stock Exchange), Scalable Capital (exit to BlackRock), SONOS (exit to KKR) and AppFolio (IPO @ NASDAQ). Beyond that, Nikolas provides founders and investors with detailed insights into the structuring of venture financing rounds in his series of lectures titled “Venture Capital Master Class” and is currently writing an elementary book on this topic titled DEALTERMS.VC.