Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: Alex Chatzieleftheriou
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Blueground is a real estate tech company that wants to make people feel at home wherever they choose to live. Offering beautifully furnished and thoughtfully equipped apartments for a month, a year, or even longer, it’s designed to help people simply show up and start living.
• Raised $50M in their last Series B Round.
• 3000+ furnished apartments for mid/long-term accommodation.
• Presence in 15 locations globally – 7 of them being in the US.
• Has been growing more than 100% YoY.
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: Steven Galanis
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Cameo is an online marketplace that connects fans directly with more than 40.000 pop culture icons via personalized video messages, live calls, and direct messages. It quickly became the market leader in the talent monetization space and is growing more than 5X annually.
• Raised more than $165M from Global Top Tier Investors including Google Ventures, Amazon Alexa Fund, UTA, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Valor Equity Partners and Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley).
• Reached Unicorn status after their last $100M Series C Round.
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: Haris Pylarinos
Location: UK/Greece
Description: Hack The Box is an online platform allowing to test penetration testing skills and exchange ideas and methodologies with other members of similar interests. It contains several challenges that are constantly updated.
• Hack the largest community of hackers (600K+).
• They have been awarded as the UK’s most innovative small cybersecurity company in 2019.
• They have customers like Facebook, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, NN, SAP, Metropolitan Police, American Express, Wells Fargo etc.
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: Alexis Pantazis, Emilios Markou
Location: Greece
Description: Hellas Direct is Greece’s first direct-to-consumer online car and home insurance company founded in 2012 by Emilios Markou and Alexis Pantazis. Hellas Direct is a digital-first, full-stack insurance company, empowered by cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence with operations in Greece and Cyprus.
• Have build a tech-enabled insurance company from scratch.
• Have raised $30M+ funds from all-star investors, which include the World Bank, Portag3 Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst, former Goldman Sachs economist Lord O’Neill and others.
• Expanded to Cyprus and now exploring other markets (Turkey, Poland, Portugal, etc).
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: John Tsioris
Location: Dubai/Greece
Description: InstaShop is an online grocery shopping marketplace. It provides retailers access to an untapped revenue channel, while consumers gain access to convenient delivery from local grocery stores. (Aquired by Delivery Hero).
• Grown from a team of 5 to 105 people in the last 3.5 years
• Expanded in Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, and Lebanon.
• More than 120K active users
• Acquired by Delivery Hero for $360M (August 2020).
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: Andreas Raptopoulos
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Matternet is a technology platform for urban aerial delivery. Its vision is to make access to goods as frictionless and universal as access to information.
• Now operating the only FAA Part 135 drone airline in the USA.
• Mutually exclusive partnership with UPS until 2021.
• 5K commercial flights completed across the US and Switzerland.
• Onassis Foundation invested in their latest series A2 round,
3 approved patents with the US Patent Office and over 8 years of R&D poured into technology.
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: George Palikaras
Location: Canada/Greece
Description: META is an award winning company and innovator of advanced materials which are engineered at nanoscale, to control light and other forms of energy.
• It has raised $27.5M and has completed an IPO.
• It is recognized as a Global Cleantech 100 company.
• It recently became first metamaterial company listed on NASDAQ.
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: Fay Christodoulou
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Miroculus has developed a novel digital microfluidics technology, called Miro Technology, that automates and miniaturizes complex laboratory protocols used in Genomics, in a compact, user-friendly system. The system includes an instrument, a plastic consumable, and software that allows thousands of scientists, engineers, hospitals, and lab operators globally, to create, share, and run the most complex protocols and tests, fully automated, at no additional cost.
• Co-development agreements with GlaxoSmithKline to enable high-throughput scaled genome editing.
• Raised more than $30M in investment from VCs (OSFund, Nazca), family offices and Fortune 500 companies.
• Endeavor Catalyst has also co-invested in Miroculus in 2018.
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: Nicky Goulimis
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Nova Credit is a consumer-first credit bureau that enables financial access for immigrants and others discouraged by the financial system.
• 2.5 million immigrants coming to the U.S. every year and Nova Credit can currently serve nearly 60 percent of those incomers.
• Y Combinator graduate (Class 2016).
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: Tasso Roumeliotis
Location: USA/Greece
Description: NumberAI develops artificial intelligence software Numa. It enables small businesses to connect their landline numbers digitally and interact with them in a lot of the same ways consumers expect today.
• Founded by the team behind Location Labs, a location-based services company acquired by AVG for $220 million in 2014.
• Numa, NumberAI’s platform results in 21% increase in Sales for SMBs.
• $12.1M raised in total by DFJ, Costanoa Ventures and Gradient Ventures (Google AI fund).
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: Drew Delis, Chris Mohoney, Rob Wells & Michael Petychakis
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Orfium is the only rights management technology business that brings a deep data engineering approach to solving the industry’s royalty collection issues.
• Already have huge global music labels for customers like Warner Music, Sony and others.
• Set up a 150+ R&D and Engineering hub in Greece.
• Experienced team with deep industry expertise.
• Looking to issue a PRO licence in Greece.
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: John Papadakis
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Pollfish is an agile market research platform offering real-time responses from mobile consumers. Using a modern sampling methodology that merges mobile delivery, artificial intelligence, and a massive audience network, Pollfish is able to narrowly target highly specific audience segments offering better data quality and faster completion times than competitive survey solutions.
• 70% of revenue coming from US clients.
• Integration with 140k mobile applications worldwide and access to 600M consumers globally is a unique accomplishment and asset of the company.
• Market research is a $47B industry that is radically changing.
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Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: Argyris Kaninis, Marios Stavropoulos
Location: UK/Greece
Description: Softomotive was one of the leading worldwide providers of Robotic Process Automation solutions, trusted by more than 8,000 companies worldwide. (Acquired by Microsoft)
• Clients include JP Morgan, Xerox, DIAGEO, IBM, Accenture, EY, PwC and many more.
• RPA market is expected to reach $8.6 billion by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 36.2% during 2018-2023.
• Acquired by Microsoft (May 2020).
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: Charis Arvanitis
Location: Greece
Description: Spotawheel is one of Europe’s fastest-growing used-car ecommerce platforms, designed to make the market transparent for second-hand cars. Operating in Greece and Poland, the company’s platform lists old cars that can be sold and bought, in addition to checking and monitoring the faults in the cars, through predictive analytics, enabling users to buy functioning automobiles and make profitable decisions.
• Europe’s most technologically advanced and fastest-growing used car platform.
• Enormous European market opportunity, currently hyper-fragmented, with fundamental trust issues and bad customer experiences.
• Recognized as the #1 fastest growing company in Greece by Financial Times 2021.
• Has raised almost $20M.
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Name: Nikos Moraitakis & Spyros Magiatis
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Workable helps Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) manage their recruiting, promote their jobs online, review candidates and schedule interviews with its cloud-based end-to-end recruiting software.
• With 6,000+ clients in 88 countries, such as Ryanair, Sephora, Forbes, Moodle.
• Raised $50M in their last Series C Round (Nov 2018) and Endeavor Catalyst participated with $2M.
ScaleUp
Name: Constantinos Venetsanopoulos
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Arrikto enables MLOps teams to accelerate machine learning models to market 30-times faster than traditional ML platforms.
• Joe Costello, a Silicon Valley veteran, recently joined the team as Executive Chairman & EVP Sales and Marketing.
• They have big customers such as Wells Fargo, Bank of America, American Tobacco Company.
• Just closed a $10M Series A Round.
ScaleUp
Name: George Varvarelis, Dimitris Evangelopoulos
Location: France/Greece
Description: Founded in 2017 by George Varvarelis and Dimitris Evangelopoulos, both farmers and embedded systems engineers. Augmenta specializes in smart agriculture. Augmenta’s hardware, that can be attached to any tractor, scans the field in real time and controls agricultural machinery allowing for 100% automated fertilizer application and pesticide spraying with unforeseen precision.
• Already installed in 10 markets and 25+ fields.
• Partnered with NVIDIA for the development of its cutting edge deep learning device.
• Raised over $11M to date – latest round included investors like CNH Industrial, one of the top CVCs in the industry.
ScaleUp
Name: Grigorios Dimitriou
Location: Germany/Greece
Description: BillFront is a leading and fast growing technology-enabled finance provider dedicated to digital media companies globally.
• The BillFront team is led by former media M&A banker and has offices in Berlin, London & New York.
• Their proprietary tech has already scored approximately 6 billion U.S. Dollars of invoices. As of 2020, they are originating more than 150 million U.S. dollars annually to Tech and Media companies in over 10 countries.
ScaleUp
Name: Michalis Papadakis
Location: Ireland/Greece
Description: Brainomix specializes in the creation of AI-powered imaging biomarkers to enable precision medicine for better treatment decisions
• The most complete stroke imaging solution that supports fast and consistent diagnoses for millions of patients presenting with suspected stroke symptoms.
• Present in 158 hospitals with more than 225k stroke patients, in 21 countries in Europe, US and South America – growing in clientele over time.
• Partners with Boehringer Ingelheim and MassDevice.
ScaleUp
Name: Yiannis Kiachopoulos
Location: UK/Greece
Description: Causaly is an AI for Biomedical Cause & Effect discovery, empowering researchers and decision makers to quickly find causal evidence and generate insights from vast amounts of documents.
• Causaly is trusted by top companies like Novartis, FDA, Pierre Fabre, UCL and NIH.
• “Causaly has been a valuable resource for extracting top drug hits that have been tested to inhibit COVID19 in vitro or clinical trials.”
• It has raised more than $23M from Tier-1 investors like Marathon VC, Pentech Ventures, Index Ventures and EBRD.
ScaleUp
Name: Roberto Coustas, Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos
Location: UK/Greece
Description: DeepSea Technologies is a shipping software company specialising in optimising vessel performance for ship owners and operators of commercial vessels including container ships, bulk carriers, LNG carriers and tankers.
• Have achieved immense growth the last few years, they service 100 vessels today and employ 55 people.
• DeepSea is the first greek investment for ETF Partners, a VC based in London. During the coronavirus crisis they raised a total of 3M EUR.
• Impressive client pipeline & portfolio.
ScaleUp
Name: Dimitrios Skaltsas, Vangelis Vergetis
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Intelligencia.ai uses Artificial Intelligence to de-risk drug development. Their platform focuses on estimating the risk of clinical trials, and interpreting the multitude of factors that contribute to that risk.
• Customers: 6 top pharma and biotech companies
• Both founders are ex-McKinsey consultants, focused on life sciences, with excellent academic backgrounds (INSEAD, Penn, Cornell)
• Major strategic partner (commercial contract, co-development)
• More than 1.5b expertly curated data points deployed on platform.
• 3.2x YoY revenue growth.
• Featuring in Forbes list of “America’s top 50 most promising AI companies’.
ScaleUp
Name: Maria Chatzou
Location: UK/Greece
Description: At Lifebit, they’re pushing forward the frontiers of health and knowledge by democratising access to omics data. Lifebit enables all researchers, whether novice or advanced, to run complex analyses and generate meaningful insights fast.
• Lifebit was awarded a four-year contract for Hong Kong’s Genome Project.
• Boehringer Ingelheim has partnered with Lifebit to detect Global Infectious Disease Outbreaks.
ScaleUp
Name: George Pallis
Location: UK/Greece
Description: Manual is a men’s health and well-being startup offering a suite of diagnostic tools and blood tests to offer data-driven health solutions.
• Recently raised $30M Series A for Global Expansion.
• 4x growth year over year.
• Backed by some of the best investors in Europe.
• George previously led marketing at Wise and Deliveroo.
ScaleUp
Name: Sokratis Papafloratos
Location: UK/Greece
Description: Numan provides medicine for men and knowledge for everyone. They’re building a platform that gives direct access to medical professionals, pharmaceutical products, and the knowledge to make informed decisions about your health.
• Acquired Stockholm-based medtech firm Vi-Health in March 2021.
• The startup is backed by a group of top-tier investors, led by Vostok New Ventures (who led the round for Voi and are significant investors in Babylon Health).
• Sokratis is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor.
ScaleUp
Name: Angelos Stavrakis
Location: The Netherlands/Greece
Description: SafeSize® we revolutionizes the way people buy shoes anytime, anywhere. With their proprietary 3D foot scanning, 3D shoe analysis, and machine learning technologies, the company can offer a unique personalized shoe and insole recommendation in-store or online.
• Huge clientele with the largest retail customer base (Intersport, Decathlon, Sport 2000, Sportsdirect etc).
• Safesize is already cash flow positive.
• With more than 2000 retail customers around the world, Safesize is the market leader in the fast-growing Personalized Fit market, helping more than 16 million consumers so far find and customize the right shoe at the right size for their unique.
• Already launched in Athens with a team of 10 people.
ScaleUp
Name: Stavros Papadopoulos
Location: USA/Greece
Description: TileDB makes data management universal. Analytics professionals and data science analysts across multiple industries turn to TileDB for a painless and fast way to store, access, and analyze any data with any tool at a global scale – all serverless.
• Stavros was leading the Intel Parallel Computing Lab and was a member of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Big Data at MIT CSAIL for 3 years.
• He received funding from leaders of Parallel Computing companies like Intel Capital, Nexus Venture Partners.
• Doubling his team in the US and Athens in the next 12 months.
ScaleUp
Name: George Demosthenous
Location: USA/Greece
Description: VODA.ai serves water utilities by helping them assess the condition of their pipes with affordable software that ranks pipes by Business Risk Exposure. This helps utilities prioritize capital investments, conserve water, and save money in operations.
• Customers include large metropolitan cities like Las Vegas and Boston.
• daVinci ML is VODA.ai’s super-engine that quickly conducts billions of calculations, learning from past breaks and assessing the risk of each pipe segment and it is 3x more accurate than other models.
Pipeline
Name: Tasso Argyros
Location: USA/Greece
Description: ActionIQ is a purpose-built enterprise Customer Data Platform solving complex data problems: flow and scale, analytics, and orchestration.
• ActionIQ has raised almost $145M from top investors like Sequoia Capital.
• It’s been recognized as the leading Enterprise Customer Data Platform (CDP) and as the highest-rated customer satisfaction by Advertiser Perceptions, outperforming marketing clouds.
• Its customer portfolio includes Shopify, The New York Times, Autodesk and other big retailers globally.
Pipeline
Name: Christos Tryfonas
Location: USA/Greece
Description: AISERA is an information technology company that offers solutions for IT, HR, customer service, facilities, and cloud operations of companies, businesses, and organizations. It specializes in AI, NLP, and NLU.
• Aisera has raised almost $75M from 10 different investors.
• Christos Tryfonas is a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits and former CTO at VMWare.
• Autodesk, Zoom and McAfee are among the company’s rich customer portfolio.
Pipeline
Name: Alexi Robichaux
Location: USA/Greece
Description: BetterUp is a mobile-based leadership development platform used by Fortune 500 companies. With a holistic, science-backed methodology, on-demand, and virtual coaching sessions, users practice and reinforce newbehaviors and build their skills to thrive personally and professionally.
• BetteUp reached the Unicorn status on February, after their $125m Series D round.
• Has raised more than $260m from Tier 1 funds, like Threshold, Lightspeed and Silicon Valley Bank.
• Client portfolio includes many Fortune 500 companies like Google, Logitech & IBM.
Pipeline
Name: Stefanos Loukakos
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Connectly.ai is an AI-based messaging platform to help small businesses make meaningful connections with their customers.
• They are backed by some of the top Silicon Valley and European venture capital firms, like Marathon VC, Unusual Ventures and GFC.
• Stafanos has previously worked for Facebook and Google as Director.
Pipeline
Name: Thanos Papangelis
Location: Greece
Description: Epignosis is a leading learning technology vendor that develops a suite of products that support learning and talent development for organizations and enterprises. Epignosis’ products include eFront, a robust LMS platform for enterprises, TalentLMS, a zero-overhead cloud LMS and TalentCards, and a mobile-app for microlearning and micro-certifications within modern organizations.
• One of the leading SaaS LMS platforms worldwide with more than 6,000 customers globally, 60% in N. America, $20+M ARR, HQs in San Francisco.
• Trusted by more than 70.000 organisations including Amazon, Nike, Trivago, Autodesk, Schneider Electric, LG, Infosys, Delonghi, Alpha Bank, etc.
Pipeline
Name: Panos Siozos
Location: Cyprus/Greece
Description: LearnWorlds is a powerful, easy-to-use and reliable training solution for individuals and enterprises. A fully customizable, white-label solution to train employees and associates, educate customers, or sell online courses to a wide audience.
• They have raised more than $33M from Tier-1 investors like Marathon VC and Insight Partners.
• They have more than 1000 organizations – customers and entrepreneurs in over 70 countries.
Pipeline
Name: Costa Tsaousis
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Netdata is an open-source, distributed, real-time, performance, and health monitoring for systems and applications to help IT teams.
• It has raised almost $35M from Tier-1 investors like Marathon VC, Bain Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.
• Almost 56K people have “starred” Netdata’s Github repository.
• It has been recognized as Cloud Disruptor with 2020 Stratus Award, named to the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2020 and awarded Best Infrastructure Monitoring Solution.
Pipeline
Name: Dimitris Vassos
Location: Cyprus/Greece
Description: Omilia provides NLU enabled IVR & chat technologies to enterprises throughout the world. By taking an Omni-channel approach, it provides its customers with a single unified platform for conversational customer service across all channels.
• Omilia has raised $20M from Grafton Capital.
• There have been more than 1B Virtual Assistant Conversations using Omilia.
• Its customer portfolio consists of the biggest telecommunication companies and banks in more than 17 countries worldwide.
Pipeline
Name: Alex Vratskidis
Location: USA/Greece
Description: Persado is a high-growth, category-leading AI platform that helps data-driven executives – including CMOs, CXOs, CDOs, CFOs, and P&L owners – unlock a new level of value creation by ensuring the right words are used at every customer interaction.
• More than 350 people in 7 offices (Athens, New York, London, San Francisco, Mian, Rome, Chicago).
• Backed by amazing investors.
• Client portfolio includes many Fortune 500 brands like Air Canada, Microsoft, American Express, Dell, Vodafone and others.
Pipeline
Name: Victor Trokoudes
Location: UK/Greece
Description: Plum is a Financial virtual assistant that uses AI to improve users’ personal savings. It analyses users’ incomings and outgoings and automatically sets small safe amounts of money aside for them. They can also get insights on their spending, invest for a real return and make sure they are getting the best deals on things like energy bills. The team is based in London, Athens and Nicosia.
• Helping more than 375,000 people in the UK save over £60 Million in the last year.
• +450% YoY user base growth.
• Recently introduced “Investments” (Invest your savings) and “Switch” (Get an offer from a different energy provider) to improve users’ earnings and savings.
Pipeline
Name: Eleftherios Diakomichalis
Location: Germany/Greece
Description: Monadic is a group of technologists who set out to re-imagine free and open source software collaboration. It is currently supporting the development of Radicle, a secure peer-to-peer alternative for code collaboration & accessp2p, an open learning program.
• The open source software industry is expected to reach nearly $33B by 2022.
• Eleftherios previously was the VP Data Science & Engineering at SoundCloud.
• It’s one of the most promising crypto cases and communities in Europe.
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