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Haris Pylarinos: Hacking since the age of 12!

 

Haris Pylarinos is the Founder and CEO of Hack The Box. Hack The Box is a leading cybersecurity continuous training, certification and talent assessment platform that enables businesses, government institutions, universities, and individual users to improve their offensive and defensive cybersecurity operations.

 

It all started when he was 12 years old, and a computer class was created at his school! Of course, even his teachers were telling his parents not to engage Haris in computers but to attend more traditional classes. 
 
Haris didn't listen to them though and started hacking by trying to get into his father's computer! In conversation with Marco Veremis he tells his story, how Hack The Box was created, his business and its challenges, and how he would spend his last day on earth.

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Neil Reimer, co-founder of Index Ventures, perhaps the largest venture capital firm in Europe, known for its investments in major technology companies such as Robinhood, Adyen, Revolut, Skype, Slack, Roblox, Figma, discusses his view on the Greek innovation ecosystem. Article published in Kathimerini.gr 

 
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Blueground expands to Japan through a franchise agreement with Mitsubishi Estate. The Greek startups and the Japanese real-estate developer are planning to develop an extensive network of 13,000 furnished apartments in major cities across Japan.

 

India’s largest private shipping company Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. has joined forces with Greece-based maritime software company Harbor Lab in a digitalization partnership aimed at optimizing port cost management. 

 

Northern Greece Investment Fund invested in LEARNING SEAMAN, a start-up company and the first in the world to develop a mental health and wellness platform for seafarers, Wellness by Learning Seaman. 

 

Brite Solar, a Greek-founded energy solutions company utilizing advanced nanotechnology materials, secured €8.6M in Series A funding. NEP (New Energy Partners) led the round, with participation from existing investors, including EIC Fund, Brace Agri Solar Holdings, and Deep Investments Limited. The funding will be used for further development and installation of the solar glass production line, while expanding their operations in Patras. 

 

Movingdoors, the Cypriot proptech startup, announced the successful completion of its recent €1.163 million seed funding round with the support of Uni.fund, Genesis Ventures and Venteri Capital. 

 

Feel Therapeutics, the Digital Precision Medicine company for mental and behavioral health, announced today that Michel Vounatsos, former CEO of Biogen, has joined as a Chairman of their Advisory Board. Additionally, Feel has secured new funding from Satori Neuro, Metavallon VC, and existing investors such as SOSV, SeedtoB, and others, to fuel its expansion plans. 

 

Kinvent, the European leader in interconnected physiotherapy solutions, secured a €16 million investment in its third round of funding. This investment will allow the company to enter a new phase of acceleration, including market penetration in the United States in 2024, increased R&D projects, and massive expansion into other markets. Lead investors in the round were Eurazeo and Uni.Fund. 

 

Future Brain completed its 1st round of pre-seed funding from Greek and foreign angel investors. FutureBrain is an AI-based B2B SaaS platform that is revolutionizing the way leaders understand and drive their organizations towards success. 

 

Sentify, a Greek-founded London-based startup, announced that it secured over $1.1 million in an oversubscribed Pre-Seed funding round. The company, a platform enabling users to extract actionable insights from large language model (LLM) products, was founded in 2023 by Ex-Meta and Ex-Revolut Greek Engineers.

 
 
 
 
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Seven innovative Greek companies with complex supply chain needs conducted 34 B2B meetings with 18 startups and university spin-offs to explore synergies and discuss partnerships at SEV's 13th Innovation Ready thematic workshop on logistics, transportation and supply chain. 

 

During the 11th Business Day organized by SEV for its members, the management of EZA S.A. met with 8 startups TEKMON, Seems, Dataviva, PragmaIOT, Linked Business, Pobuca, Helvia Technologies and Rething, at its factory in Atalanti. The event was attended by startups offering solutions/technologies in all sectors of the economy, with the aim of sharing know-how and creating future partnerships.

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In the 12th Business Day at the premises of Adaptit, the company met with 5 startups ITML, Metaminds, Cyberscope, Missionware, and BitRezus. The startups have expertise in cybersecurity solutions and were selected by Adaptit’s executives to understand their technology better and explore ways to collaborate. 

 
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George Hadjigeorgiou of the e-food.gr fame takes a different view on Greece’s brain drain hurdles and ponders whether, in the long run, this challenge turns into a confidence gain. Article published at Kathimerini.gr 

 

Ambition and culture change are, according to Greek VCs, the two ingredients that the Greek innovation ecosystem needs to be able to rise to the top. This was the main conclusion that emerged from the statements of the heads of some of the most important VCs in Greece at the "Seed Stage Funds" panel of the two-day conference "Innovation Greece 5.0: Innovation in Greece and the institutions that support it", organized by the European Innovation Hub Smart Attica at the premises of the NCSF Demokritos.

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INTRACOM DEFENSE, as the Coordinator of the Trans-European Consortium PROTEAS, has signed a €20 million funding agreement from the European Defense Fund for the study, design, prototyping, and integration, testing and evaluation of the first-of-its-kind Command & Control System, Special Operations Forces, to support small joint operations led by the European Union.

 

Theon International PLC, a leading designer and manufacturer of night vision and thermal imaging systems for military and security applications with a strong global footprint, is today listing its shares on the Amsterdam regulated market (Euronext), achieving one of the first IPOs in Europe. The total number of shares offered corresponds to 22% of the Company's share capital, with a final offer price of €10 per share.

 
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Zina Mavroeidi is the founder and CEO of the online grocery retailer e-fresh.gr. She has designed and executed all aspects of the business that started as a startup e-supermarket and has become a €20m business today. Also, she was part of the “40 under 40” list of Fortune Mag for three consecutive years. We met with Zina and talked about her journey. Here’s what she told us.

 
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Hellenic Federation of Enterprises–SEV is organizing the 14th Innovation Ready, a matchmaking event about cybersecurity and digital safety in business. The event will feature 1-on-1 meetings between the industry, big enterprises, startups, and university spin-offs and is scheduled for April 23. For more information click here.

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Hellenic Federation of Enterprises-SEV is organizing a business day with EΥΔΑΠ–Athens Water and Sewage Company on March 6. Company’s executives will meet and discuss with Greek startups and scaleups. To learn more about the Business Days initiative click here. 

 

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