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Thursday, July 13

Networking Event 2017 (Season 3 Closing Party)

Party

Are you used to non-stop working on your own projects with all the ups and downs that a startup comes up with? Looking for a break to lay back and observe what you actually created? Summer is here and it’s time to get together for the Season 3 Closing Party! We have a fabulous community of entrepreneurs here in Athens so let’s all get together for a festive evening of good people and cool drinks.

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Tuesday, September 12

Alexandros Marinos (resin.io)

Fireside Chat

Alexandros Marinos is the founder and CEO of resin.io which he founded in 2013 to improve the way code is deployed, updated, and maintained on remote Linux connected devices. resin.io is a venture-backed company ($12M from DFJ, Ericsson, General Electric, Openfund) with customers covering a wide-ranging set of use cases including digital signage, manufacturing, smart buildings and transportation.

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Past Events

Panos Papadopoulos (Marathon VC)

Eleftheria Zourou (Doctoranytime)

John Katsiotis (Parkaround)

Dimitris Melachroinos (Spitogatos)

Isidoros Sideridis (Pobuca)

George Dimopoulos (Venture Friends)

John Papadakis (Pollfish)

Michalis Gkontas (Forky)

Andreas Grammatis (Douleutaras)

Theodore Theodoropoulos (Hotelgenius)

Networking Event 2016 (Season 2 Closing Party)

Spyros Magiatis (Workable)

Alexia Kotsi (Funkmartini)

Claus Rosenberg Gotthard (Book'n'Bloom)

Marco Veremis (Upstream)

Paul Efmorfidis (Coco-Mat)

Manos Moschous (AbZorba Games)

Antonios Fiorakis (Incrediblue)

Fanis Koutouvelis (Intale)

George Spanoudakis (Pinnatta)

Networking Event (Season Closing Party)

Xenia Kourtoglou (Focus Bari / e-satisfaction)

Nikos Drandakis (Taxibeat)

Philipp Brinkmann (TravelPlanet24)

Apostolos Apostolakis (e-food.gr)

Nikos Kakavoulis (Daily Secret)

Spyros Trachanis (Odyssey Venture Partners)

George Chatzigeorgiou (Skroutz)

Haris Karonis (Viva!)

Team

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

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.

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

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.

Greek Entrepreneurs Unite to Help Startups During the Economic Meltdown

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,