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Seventeen Greek startups knocked on the door of around 60 international and Greek investors on Wednesday at the Athens Conservatory, to convince them to finance their idea to implement their business plans, as part of Tech Tour South East 2024 event, organized for its third year in Greece and hosted by the Hellenic Development Bank of Investments (HDBI).
“There are many active investors who are interested in investing in Greece and South East Europe. We bring investors in contact with entrepreneurs by organizing technical tours throughout Europe,” said William Stevens, founder of Tech Tour Europe, to Kathimerini. As he explains, from more than 120 applications, the investors, after evaluation, chose to give the ticket for this year’s event to around 30 from Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia etc. billion-dollar currency.
Among them are Abu Dhabi’s state fund, Mubadala, which has invested in investment funds active in Greece and through the joint investment agreement it signed with HDBI, Earlybird, which manages funds around 2.5 billion euros, London-based ETF Partners. , EBRD Venture Capital, as well as Aramco Ventures.
At the same time, other investment funds are exploring new opportunities, such as the American Almaz Capital, the French private equity Eurazeo, with assets under management of more than €35 billion, as well as venture capital funds that have invested in Greek start-ups already, such as the Bulgarian Eleven Ventures, LAUNCHub Ventures etc.
ETF Partners is closing in on another investment in a Greek tech company, following its vote of confidence in Deep Sea Technologies and Hellas Direct. Of the 60 investors, around 35 were from abroad and the rest from Greece. They focused on 17 Greek startups: Triparound, Solmeyea, bespot, Centaur Analytics, AviSense.ai, BookWatch.com, Feel Therapeutics, Circuits Integrated Hellas, Oliveex, Intelligg, OramaVR, ComeTogether, Mood, EVO Human Performance, Finloup, Elvia Technologies and Clio Muse Tours.
