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Innovate in Greece by SEV & Endeavor Greece

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Chas Bountra: Oxford professor discusses innovation in Medicine & climate change

Chas Bountra is a Professor of Translational Medicine at the University of Oxford and deals with how medicine starts from the laboratory until it reaches the patients. He believes that the challenges we face are universal. Through partnerships, humanity can move forward quickly and provide solutions to critical problems such as chronic diseases and climate change.

In conversation with Marco Veremis, he analyzes how technology has helped medicine make leaps of progress. At the same time, he explains why it is so difficult to deal with diseases shaped both by people's genetic predisposition as well as the environment in which we live.

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Greece's Startups Boom in Valuation

According to EIB, Dealroom and BVCA, the Greek startup ecosystem has the second largest valuation in the region at EUR 8.2 billion, 7.5 times higher to 2017.

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Twenty Years of Investment: Establishing a Strong Economy

Foreign Direct Investments are expected to reach 20 year high in 2022. Investments in the first 8 months grew 25% to 2021, and Enterprise Greece reports 20 projects at 7 billion value in the pipeline.

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This month, Blueground acquired Brazilian PropTech Startup, Tabas, and has raised a significant (yet undisclosed) amount of funds from ADQ's venture arm DisruptAD.

The largest job portal in Greece kariera.gr acquired Workathlon, a company that introduced key innovations in talent recruitment in the tourism, hospitality, and food services sectors.

Harbor Lab secures €6.1M to make shipping dock more easily and cheaply. VentureFriends and Speedinvest led the seed funding round.

Welcome PIckups raised EUR 5.3 million from existing investors Market One Capital, Flashpoint και Venture Friends. The round will be used to finance the company's expansion to North and South America.

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The Ukrainian startup relocation program StartUpGateway launched last month. It is an initiative by SEV that is implemented by HIGGS in collaboration with Solidarity Now with the support of the biggest technology companies in the country. The Ukrainian startup Giraffe is currently hosted at Egg.

Epirus becomes visible on the global innovation map as Ioannina turns into a major technology innovation hub with multinationals and startups.

If you want to know what’s Hot in Thessaloniki: Deep Tech, Spin-Offs, and Technology Transfer click the link.

Science Agora is the first academic joint undertaking to create a Technology Transfer Office with the aim of systematically supporting research commercialization. Science Agora is supported by the National Technical University of Athens, Athens University of Economics and Business, and research centers Demokritos, ATHENA, and ICCS.

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On October 6th, Innovative Greeks, together with Athroa Innovations and iGrow Ventures, had the pleasure of hosting at SEV an event on “How to Build a More Cohesive Innovation Ecosystem in Athens: leveraging key insights from two pioneers in the USA”.

Read the discussion’s highlights here.

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Sunlight Group, member of Olympia Group, and technology company specializing in industrial e-transportations for intralogistics and energy storage systems, acquired 51% of German Triathlon Holding GmbH. The two groups joint revenues exceed EUR 1 billion and is expected to triple up in the next years.

The pharmaceutical industry is expected to invest EUR 1.2 billion by 2025. The investments are supported by RRF and aim at decreasing Greece's dependance on drug imports from Asia

Megaplast inaugurated a new production plant in Thebes, part of a EUR 40 million investment plan until 2026. The plant will raise Megaplast's production capacity and broaden the company's portfolio of innovative and sustainable products.

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Bioemtech supports preclinical research as a preclinical CRO and a manufacturer of novel imaging systems eye. The company is a successful from-lab-to-market example in Greece. We met with CEO George Loudos.

Read here what he told us.

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Save the Date!

SEV Industrial Conference, 22-23 February 2023, at Megaron Concert Hall.

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Outliers Podcast is back!

The 4th season of Outliers Podcast by Endeavor Greece is back - and revamped.

This podcast features the most prominent entrepreneurs in Greece and abroad, sharing their personal and professional journeys, their challenges and successes in an open conversation.

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