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Tuesday, October 18

Andreas Grammatis

Douleutaras

Andreas is the Founder & CEO at Douleutaras.gr, the Greek online platform which enables you to accomplish your personal or company projects in the most reliable and fast way. Since 2014, Andreas is leading a team of 30 and with a funding of €350k, he grew the platform to 150k visits/month, 35.000 jobs posted so far, 3.000 professionals and a match rate of 30%.

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Tuesday, November 15

Michalis Gkontas

Forky

Michalis Gkontas is the CEO & Co-Founder of Forky, a venture backed food startup that enables its clients to order food online. Michalis founded Cookisto with Petros Pitsilis and in 2014 rebranded the company as Forky raising more than $3M in funding. They were one of the finalists of Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award 2015.

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Tuesday, December 20

Dimitris Glezos

Transifex

Dimitris Glezos is the Founder and CEO of Transifex, a cloud-based translation management software company. Transifex’s customers span nearly 50 countries and include companies like Atlassian, Vodafone, Trello, Twilio, and Meetup. To date, over 120 million people have used products localized with Transifex.

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Past Events

Theodore Theodoropoulos

Theodore Theodoropoulos

 Networking Event 2016

Networking Event 2016

 Spyros Magiatis

Spyros Magiatis

 Alexia Kotsi

Alexia Kotsi

 Claus Rosenberg Gotthard

Claus Rosenberg Gotthard

 Marco Veremis

Marco Veremis

 Paul Efmorfidis

Paul Efmorfidis

 Manos Moschous

Manos Moschous

 Antonios Fiorakis

Antonios Fiorakis

 Fanis Koutouvelis

Fanis Koutouvelis

 George Spanoudakis

George Spanoudakis

 Networking Event

Networking Event

 Xenia Kourtoglou

Xenia Kourtoglou

 Nikos Drandakis

Nikos Drandakis

 Philipp Brinkmann

Philipp Brinkmann

 Apostolos Apostolakis

Apostolos Apostolakis

 Nikos Kakavoulis

Nikos Kakavoulis

 Spyros Trachanis

Spyros Trachanis

 George Chatzigeorgiou

George Chatzigeorgiou

 Haris Karonis

Haris Karonis

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Dimitris Litsikakis

Athens Director

Dimitris is a PMP® certified project manager who is passionate about internet startups. His entrepreneurial spirit showed up early. Dimitris founded hiphop.gr in 2000, one of the largest on-line entertainment portals in Greece. He has a MSc in Project Management from Lancaster University and has developed his international experience managing complex IT projects while working at IBM UK. Dimitris is currently working as Project Manager and Business Developer at Edenred Greece. He covers the Greek tech startup scene on TechStart where he contributes as a guest author.

From the Blog

A Startup Grind Success Story: On the Power of a Global Network with Claus Rosenberg Gotthard of Book'n'Bloom

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Dimitris Litsikakis 2016-05-17T12:30:00+00:00

When I jumped on a plane to visit Silicon Valley for Startup Grind's flagship Global Conference, I couldn't imagine how many friends I was about to make. Fellow Chapter Directors from around the world - South Africa, China, Sweden, and more - joined me and 3000 other founders and investors for two days worth of learning and connecting. One of them was Claus Rosenberg Gotthard, a Danish-born entrepreneur who is not only running the Startup Grind Madrid chapter, but has Co-founded Book’n’Bloom, a services booking platform powered by Facebook. He just raised a whooping €11.5M in Series A funding from a London-based VC to expand the business in new markets, including Greece.

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With 65M Subscribers in 43 Countries, Upstream Co-founder on Doing Business Around the World

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Dimitris Litsikakis 2016-03-21T12:30:00+00:00

The world isn’t flat according to Marco Veremis. He's CEO & Co-founder of Upstream, a mobile commerce company operating in 43 countries and more than 25 languages. Just this past year, his company Upstream converted 65 million paying subscribers and handled 10 billion consumer interactions. He joined Startup Grind Athens at InnovAthens to tell a packed room of entrepreneurs his vision about doing business around the globe.

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Greek Entrepreneurs Unite to Help Startups During the Economic Meltdown

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Dimitris Litsikakis 2015-07-02T12:59:44+00:00

What's going on in Greece?

This is a really bad day for Greece. After the surprise decision on Monday by PM Alexis Tsipras to call a snap referendum within a week, people run to the ATM's to withdraw their savings. That resulted to Capital Controls, the first time such a thing has happened in the Eurozone. It's also the first time a developed country has not paid IMF, and Greece today joined the club of three other countries,

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