Greece

Greek startup Biopix-T has developed a mobile Covid-19 detection device, called Iris, which can identify the presence of the virus in a sample in just half an hour. The device, which functions just like a mini laboratory, is expected...

Greek-run startup InstaShop, a grocery delivery service operating in the Middle East and North Africa, was purchased by German food delivery service Delivery Hero in a record breaking deal of $360 million. The sum is made up of a $270...

Several Greek startups have stood out in the past few years, somehow able to break free of the fetters of the economic crisis and the mass exodus of educated, skilled individuals to other countries. One of these enterprises is Twiddle, a...

Eight Greek start-ups and newly-formed businesses received the annual Envolve Award Greece (formerly called the Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award) in a ceremony earlier this week in Athens. The winners of the competition, which was created in 2012 by the Libra Group on behalf of The...

Greeks with imagination and great ideas flourish even in times of crisis. Like Vassilis Tsipas from Xylokastro in the Corinth prefecture, a graduate of the Alexander Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, department of Agriculture Technology, who had the idea to...

The Greek startup Syncbnb was selected among 507 European startups to participate in the EU-Startups Summit in Barcelona on April 24th and to present its services to a large audience. Startuppers, serial entrepreneurs, fund managers, angel investors and technology fans...

Greece's startup ecosystem is steadily growing as Athens based VC fund Marathon Ventures announced an increase to their fund with the addition of European Investment Fund, National Bank of Greece as well as other key player’s funds under the new Equifund scheme....

Innoetics, a Greek startup developing voice technologies has been acquired by Samsung. The high-tech company is a local firm with an international clientele. The total amount of money for which the company was bought by the South Korean giant was...

Twelve dynamic Greek startups will have the opportunity to present their products and services in the Greek Booth of South By Southwest (SXSW), one of the largest and most important innovation and technology conferences and festivals held annually in...

Roomcase is a Greek travel technology startup company which was first established in Athens in 2014 with the goal of promoting smaller lodging establishments to hundreds of booking websites and travel agents in Greece and abroad. The website provides...

More than 300 business plans from Greek startups, developing small and medium-sized companies from a very wide spectrum of business activity have been submitted at the Equity Investment Forum, which will be held on Dec. 7-8 in Athens, the...

A Greek startup company has impressed people across world, showing the world that there is also a more creative and productive side to Greece. Urban Owl Eyewear belongs to Dimitris Diamantis and it produces handmade sunglasses made exclusively in...

In an era when online travel agencies dominate hotel bookings, there is still a broad strip of the accommodation industry that largely remains untapped by the web. Hundreds of thousands of lodgings, bnbs, inns or rooms to let -however they...

*By Maria Calafatis - Greeks have always been entrepreneurial. These last few years the Startup Community has grown fast and despite the crisis, there is a lot of motivation among the startups. The Greeks were in search of new experiences by...

The Anglo-Saxon motto "When the going gets tough, the tough get going" could be paraphrased in Greece's economic drama as "When the going gets tough, innovative minds get going." Since the onset of the debilitating economic crisis in 2009, many...