Innovate in Greece by SEV & Endeavor Greece

The most innovative Greeks in history, according to Thanos Veremis, renowned historian, and professor

Marco Veremis discusses with Thanos Veremis, Professor Emeritus of the University of Athens - and his father - about innovative Greeks from ancient times to the present day. They discuss the paradox of being taught ancient Greek at school without understanding the true meaning of the texts, the prevailing nepotism in modern Greece and the crucial role the Orthodox Church played in preserving the Greek language during the 19th century.

The discussion spans Greece’s timeline, reviewing the Greeks' ingenuity throughout: from the challenges in ancient Greece compared to today's modern society and how Plato and Aristotle dealt with them, progressing to Thucydides and Alexander the Great, all the way to the Ottoman period, the revolution of 1821, Trikoupis, Venizelos and the Balkan wars.

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10 Greek Startups to Follow in 2023, Recommended by VCs

10 Greek Startups to Follow in 2023, Recommended by Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou, Partner at Velocity.Partners, Apostolos Apostolakis, Co-Founder of VentureFriends, Alex Alexakis, Investor at Marathon Venture Capital, Marco Veremis, Partner at Big Pi Ventures, and Myrto Papathanou, Partner at Metavallon VC.

J.P. Morgan to Expand in Greece

J.P. Morgan announces plans for a new office in Athens, Greece, to support the organic growth of its businesses in the country. The office will also house a new Payments Innovation Lab and will initially hire around 50 employees to set up a payments research and development team locally.

Read more here.

Plan(e)t Foods, the first Greek vegan startup, raised EUR 400,000 to produce the first plant-based and carbon-negative ice cream. Investors include Erietta Kourkoulou Latsi, Albert Revach, and Dimitris Georgakopoulos.

ORamaVR raises 2.4M EUR in a post-seed funding round to support corporate plans of accelerating the world’s transition to medical virtual reality training.

FORTH establishes the “Greek Institute of Human Genomics” to conduct high-quality, competitive, cutting-edge research in the field of human genetics, and to provide services utilizing the diversity of local genomic variants and the history of the Greek population.

Pharos Summit 2022: Thirty world-class American universities sign a program for academic collaboration with Greek universities.

Employment in the Greek innovation ecosystem nearly doubled last year. Statistics show a 120% increase in startups and 105% in more mature companies.

The Silicon Valley Greek Hub (SVGH) launched operations in the US. The Hub will strengthen the Greek startup ecosystem by connecting local entrepreneurs with the center of technological innovation.

HR strategy and practices for startups and innovative high-growth companies. The case of Elevate Greece.

Apostolos Apostolakis of Venture Friends outlines the situation of the startup economy in Greece, the challenges, and the opportunities.

Read the full interview here.

EnzyQuest is a biotech company that focuses on developing and commercializing new enzyme products that allow for more efficient manufacturing and analytical processes. We met with CEO Dimitris Koutsioulis. Here's what he told us.

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Join the 10th Innovation Ready workshop, "Smart Materials" to find out more about technologies designed and developed in Greece.

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Organized by SEV, 29 November 2022 at 16:30.

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