Startup Events,Accelerators,Incubators & VCs in Greece

Do you have an idea and you want  to build your own startup? Or you already have your own startup and want to take it to the next level? Here is a list of resources that can help you:

 

Startup Your Idea:

If you want to take your idea to the next level then the key events in Greece are:

– Startup Weekend Athens

– Athens Startup Weekend University (for students)

 

Community Events:

In these events you can get inspired by Greeks who have their own startup or did something remarkable. You can also network with very interesting persons.

– Open Coffee

– TedX Athens

– TedX Athens Academy

– TechCrunch Athens Meetup

 

Contests:

Wanna see how your idea stands up in front of a panel of judges? Join these competitions:

– Imagine Cup Greece  from Microsoft Innovation Center(Only for students)

– Aegean Startups from University of Aegean and TANEO

– Kainotomeis from Eurobank

– I-bank, Innovation and Technology from Ethniki Bank

– Ennovation from AUEB and ELTRUN

– Odysseies Kainotomias from University of Ioannina

– Kainotomia  from Nea Genia

– Call to Innovation from TedX Athens

– Make Innovation Work from Hellenic American Chamber

– Hackathon by Microsoft

– Wowzapp by Microsoft

– Hatziioannou Entrepeneurship Contest

– The Hellenic Initiative

 

Co-Working Places:

It’s always better to share the fun. Join these co-working places to meet and work with techs/designers/devs/biz people.

– Colab and Colab@Herakleion and Colab@AIT

– 123p

– Thermi Link (@ Thessaloniki)

– Loft2work

– Synergy Project

–  Openspace

– The Archive

– Camp

Articles on Coworking in Greece: Here and Here

 

Incubators

If your startup/idea is accepted, here you can have free working space, consulting, support, access to business networks and a lot more:

– Microsoft Innovation Center

– EGG by Eurobank & Corallia

– Start Tech Ventures

 

Clusters

The biggest cluster of micro-electronics companies in Greece:

– Corallia

 

Accelerators

Here you can get help to proceed faster with your idea/startup and seek seed funding:

– Metavallon

– Zerofund

– Igniter by Colab

– Start Tech Ventures by Tsigos

A list of accelerators outside of Greece at: http://accelerato.rs/

 

Entrepreneurship Support Organizations

Endeavour

 

Funding

You can seek for VC (or Seed) funding in the following organizations:

– The Open Fund

– PJ Tech Catalyst by Piraeus Bank

– Odyssey Venture Partners

– TANEO

– Attika Ventures

– AIMS

– Alpha Ventures

– Oxygen Capital

– Thermi Ventures

– Zerofund

This is not a complete list, I am sure I have forgotten something important so feel free to contribute!