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| Mar 22, 2017 | Athens gets a new venture fund | Raising money for a venture fund is almost never easy, but it’s a whole lot harder in certain places that are struggling economically, like Greece.
Thankfully for the country, a new seed-stage firm has formed, called Marathon VC, that’s cur... |
| Jan 6, 2017 | Greece is setting up a new €260 million fund-of-funds. Here’s how it will work | Since 2013, tech startups coming from Greece have managed to build world–class products, score multi-million dollar rounds from world–class investors and exit to world–class corporations.
All this more or less jump-started with the local VC... |
| Mar 21, 2016 | A VC in Greece on operating in tumultuous times | Georgios Kasselakis has the same concerns as most VCs: How to raise money, how to grow the money investors provide him, how to identify the most promising startups.
Unlike most VCs, Kasselakis and his seed-stage firm, OpenFund, are based in... |
| Oct 7, 2015 | Yell.ru acquires Ukrainian-Russian startup YouScan | Local search and user review service Yell.ru has acquired a controlling stake in Ukraino-Russian startup YouScan by buying the shares of the previous investors, while the founding team retained a minority stake. No further details of the tr... |
| Jul 7, 2015 | Стартапы и фрилансеры из Греции: Как выжить в стране, где не осталось денег Статьи редакции | Редакция ЦП узнала, как обстоят дела на стартап- и фриланс-рынках Греции — стране, которая близка к банкротству, и уровень безработицы в которой составляет 26%.
Греция — страна, находящаяся в состоянии глубокого финансового кризиса. Из-за р... |
| Jul 2, 2015 | Amid A Collapsing Economy, Greek Entrepreneurs Band Together To Keep Business Going | Elmira Bayrasli Contributor
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| Jul 1, 2015 | OpenFund, In Greece They Trust | During these difficult days for the European construction with the real risk of an exit of Greece from the Euro area, nicknamed “Grexit”, we want to highlight the work of OpenFund, an Athens-based early stage venture capital firm focused on... |
| Jul 1, 2015 | One Weird Trick To Help Greece | It’s hard enough being a startup without the financial collapse of your country to contend with.
For those in Silicon Valley who are used to Uber being worth more than 40x the debt payment that Greece just missed, capital controls — which a... |
| Jan 5, 2015 | LongAccess Raises More Funds For BigStash, Its Long Term Archiving Service | Last year we covered Long Access a startup which offers very long-term cloud infrastructure storage for enterprises. We’re talking about prepaid storage and access for 30 years. The company had previously raised €210,000.
It’s now raised a ... |
| Apr 17, 2014 | LongAccess Wants To Cold-Store Your Digital Life For 30 Years | Tech people are probably used to the idea that we’ll have our memories and photos stored online. Sure, we have it in the backs of our mind that it’ll all be on some dusty hard drive somewhere we can access in the nursing home – at least we ... |
| Mar 7, 2014 | Workable Raises $1.5M From Greylock IL To Build Cloud-Based Recruitment Software For SMEs | Workable, a startup founded in Athens, Greece, that has developed a cloud-based recruitment platform for SMEs, has today confirmed a new investment of $1.5 million led by Greylock IL, the Israel/UK-based affiliate of Greylock Partners, an e... |
| Sep 24, 2013 | Game Studio Total Eclipse Raises Seed Round From OpenFund To Expand Its Portfolio | Back at the beginning of this year the Openfund (a five-year-old investment fund out of Athens, Greece) closed its second fund totalling €10 million under management. They set to work putting that to good use, investing in Incrediblue (a ki... |
| Jul 23, 2013 | Longacces Raises €110K in Seed Funding | Longaccess, an Athens, Greece-based startup that is developing a service to preserve personal digital archives for the long term future, raised €110k in seed funding.
Openfund II led the round.
Founded by Panayotis Vryonis, Longaccess is wo... |
| Jul 16, 2013 | Dopios Secures Seed Cash From Openfund To For Its Getyourguide-Meets-Tripadvisor | Tour guides or sites like Getyourguide (out of Germany), or Peek, the San Francisco-based travel site that gives users a curated list of options in individual cities, tend to come down on the experience side. Other travel sites like Tripadv... |
| Apr 22, 2013 | Openfund II Launches New Call | Openfund II, the Athens, Greece-based startup seed venture capital fund, just launched a new call for startup proposals (read here the launching post).
The Openfund, which provides seed capital ranging from €50k to €500k and access to a net... |
| Mar 29, 2013 | Locish Launches with €60K in Seed Funding | Locish, an Athens, Greece-based provider of a mobile travel app, launched with €60k in seed funding.
According to a post (read here), the company will use the funds to demonstrate its core value proposition and build early traction in Athen... |
| Mar 4, 2013 | Workable Raises €600K in Seed Funding | According to reports (read here), Workable, an Athens, Greece, and London, UK-based provider of online hiring tools, raised €600k in seed funding.
The round was led by Greek Openfund.
Co-founded by CEO Nikos Moraitakis and CTO Spyros Magiat... |
| Jan 27, 2013 | Openfund Launches €10M Second Fund | Athens, Greece-basedseed capital firm Openfund recently started operations for its €10m second fund.
Supported by the European Investment Fund under the Jeremie program and other ten private investors, Openfund II will work with entrepreneu... |
| Jan 8, 2013 | OpenFund Closes New €10M Fund, Adds Incrediblue And WorkableHR To Portfolio | The Openfund began 5 years ago, around the same time as Seedcamp which might well make it the second oldest ‘new style’ tech seed fund in Europe. You could say that it was not only pretty early, but also in a tough place – Greece does not h... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Top 8 European Startup Accelerators and Incubators Ranked: Seedcamp and Startup Bootcamp Top The Rankings | Last month we shared a list of the top ranked startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. Through most accelerators and incubators, startup teams receive mentoring, guidance and a small amount of funding in return for a... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Seedcamp named top European accelerator, with Startupbootcamp closing in | Seedcamp, the London-based startup accelerator program which has been operating in Europe for the past four years, has been named the top European startup accelerator by a year-long independent study. However programmes run by Startupbootca... |
| Jul 27, 2010 | Listiki offers a smart way of gathering public opinion through crowdsourced lists | Listiki (a portmanteau of the words “list” and “wiki”) lets you crowdsource lists of, well, anything. This could be something as trivial as a list of the ‘top ten horror movies’ or something more self-serving like, I don’t know, ‘5 must-rea... |
| Jan 19, 2010 | Driin Ventures wants to 'wake up' your startup if you are in Greece or South Eastern Europe | [Greece] After the creation of OpenFund in mid 2009, Greece is ready to welcome another new investment Fund that aims to help promising tech companies to go to the next level.
Driin Ventures, which officially started its operations last wee... |
| Jan 7, 2010 | Greek seed level OpenFund announces first winners, applications open again | OpenFund, an Athens-based seed level Venture Firm, has announced the first bunch of startups selected for funding. Besides the actual funding, which is between €20-30k for a 20% equity stake in the company, OpenFund provides a four-month in... |
| Jun 26, 2009 | Based in South Eastern Europe? Need seed funding? Check out Openfund | In a terrific example of a self-organising industry, some of OpenCoffee Greece’s founding members and a number of web entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have launched Openfund, offering seed capital for internet startups in Greece and So... |
| Блиц-опрос: Как вы искали инвестиции для своего стартапа? | Блиц-опрос: Как вы искали инвестиции для своего стартапа?
04 Сентября, 2012, 13:20
Ольга Карпенко
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Один из основных вопросов, которые приходится решать начинающему предпринимателю: где найти деньги на развитие своего проекта. Редакци... |
| Как украинскому стартапу получить инвестиции на Западе? | Как украинскому стартапу получить инвестиции на Западе?
01 Февраля, 2013, 12:02
Алексей Харченко
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Как привлечь заветные инвестиции, необходимые для развития бизнеса, дальнейшей экспансии или создании сильной компании? Это головная бол... |