Innovate in Greece by SEV & Endeavor Greece
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Kostas Mallios: from a pizzeria’s cash register to the top of a 100-billion-dollar company
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Kostas Mallios immigrated with his family to America when he was 9 years old and worked in the family pizzeria. When he was 25, he started working at Microsoft. He stayed for 16 years and watched the company transform completely.
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Every year he attends the TED Conference and Burning Man, a festival of 70,000 people where money is irrelevant and everyone is, sort of, equal. He likes to travel a lot to meet colleagues and be inspired.
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In conversation with Marco Veremis, they talk about his current position as Corporate VP at Applied Materials, the new cold war between China and the Western world, as well as the importance of chips for modern society.
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We'd like to thank Microsoft for its support in producing the Innovative Greeks Talks series.
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4th Healthcare & Life Sciences Meetup
SEV's 4th Healthcare & Life Sciences Meetup took place on Thursday, March 23rd, with the aim to strengthen synergies and collaborations between healthcare providers, startups, and university spin-offs in Greece.
Read more here.
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A Phoenix Rising: How Greece's Startup Ecosystem is Rebuilding After Crisis
Greece's startup ecosystem is thriving with innovative startups in fintech, ag-tech, and health tech verticals due to a supportive government, strategic location, and a talented workforce.
Read more here.
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SafeSize, the Greek retail tech company that helps people find the perfect fitting shoes in physical and online stores, raises a €14 million Series B round from Phaistos Investment Fund and existing investors Convent Capital and 3TS Capital Partners.
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Douleutaras, a Greek home services startup, raised €5,000,000 through a share capital increase, the largest since its inception, in its new funding round, with key investors LATSCO Family Office of Marianna Latsis and Apostolos Apostolakis, founder and partner of the investment organization VentureFriends.
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Greek origins drone helicopter start-up Velos Rotors has announced a $2 million Seed round by Marathon Venture Capital. Funds will help Velos further develop its drone tech and bring it to a level it meets market demand.
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Swaplanet, a Greece-based retail apparel swap platform, raised a €485,000 pre-Seed investment round with the participation of Acasia Angels, Genesis Ventures, Zeno Capital (Helidoni Foundation), and Hellenic Business Angels Network.
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Greek EKETA spin-off Cube-D and the world leader in Optical Profile Measurement technology ASCONA, join forces and introduce together, a new innovative product in the global market of aluminum extrusion.
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Greece’s Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research is preparing to receive deep-tech startups funded by NATO Innovation Fund at its business accelerator in Agia Paraskevi, northern Athens, within the next year.
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Marco Veremis in ΒΑΒΕΛ Podcast
Interviewed in this Podcast ΒΑΒΕΛ, Marco Veremis believes that the stakes in the coming years for Greece will be to attract talented people from abroad and believes that the next great achievements in technology will come in energy and medicine.
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This month we met with Michalis Vafopoulos, founder and CEO of Linked Business. We discussed the company's offer and competitive advantage, and he shared his impressions from his journey so far.
Here is what he told us.
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Join the 11th Innovation Ready workshop, "A new economy of industrial symbiosis and green energy is emerging" to find out more about technologies designed and developed in Greece.
For more information, click here.
Organized by SEV, 25 April 2023 at 16:30.
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