WE HELP the
REBELS
BUILD EXCEPTIONAL
COMPANIES
Who we are
MEET the
INVESTORS
Athena was created by serial entrepreneurs Michele Romanow and Anatoliy Melnichuk to support the next generation of founders. We are operators ourselves, who get our hands dirty, structure deals and partnerships and find the right people. We provide practical advice in product design, branding, engineering, manufacturing, operations, recruiting, marketing and surviving this journey as a founder.
Our
Portfolio
We invest across industries and have a focus on AI, fintech, and consumer. We’ve done deals as weird as last-mile delivery in space to new pharmaceuticals. We don’t get turned off by much.
We’ve formed a community of exceptional entrepreneurs, including founders of Knix, TruLocal and Endy.
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Michele and Anatoliy are fiercely loyal, incredible operators and care deeply about founder outcomes. I would work with them on any deal.
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They got me my exit. I was at $1M of revenue when I met Michele and my exit was life changing.
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Anatoliy’s unmatched ability to negotiate every form of deal on our behalf was game changing.
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Within weeks Michele and Anatoliy had reduced our product costs by 40%, produced an ad campaign and were constantly thinking about how we could become the category leader.
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This team will get anything done.
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Interested in working with us? We try not to be like other firms and believe great things often come in cold emails.