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20/02/2023

Great news as our portfolio company instacar closes its Series A round and looks to offer a whole new range of auxiliary services along its core flexible car leasing product while it also aims to expand across borders.

Huge congrats to Antonis Samothrakis, Antonis Zois and the amazing instacar team!

Greek flexible leasing startup Instacar has raised 55 million euros after speeding up its expansion into new markets and progressing its evolution into an application to supply all services related to car, from renting to servicing, changing tires, washing or even parking.

12/07/2022

We are very proud to support Christos Kapatos, PhD, Samuel Wilson, PhD, Ravi Vaidyanathan and the rest of the SERG team in successfully closing their seed round and further developing their efforts to improve the lives of patients with neurodegenerative movement disorders.

You can read more in the official announcement below👇

SERG Technologies, a start-up focused on enabling optimised and personalised care for people with neurodegenerative movement disorders (NDMDs), has raised £1.6m to help bring its innovative technology to market.

28/04/2022

Today marks another great milestone for the Greek startup ecosystem, as Spotawheel secures its €100M Series B round! We are very glad to see a seed investment of ours reaching Series B in under 3 years, and we are excited about what the future holds for the most likely winner in the used cars marketplace industry of the CEE area. Huge congrats to Charis Arvanitis, Kiriakos Agadakos and the rest of the Spotawheel team!

Used-car digital platforms have been proliferating across the world for a handful of significant reasons, but most of those are related to our recent pandemic. Among those reasons is the rapid digitization of the used car industry, as startups have flooded the market with easier-to-use platforms th....

11/04/2022

We are very proud to see one of our first investments announcing an exciting exit!

Costas Alexoglou, Konstantinos Xanthopoulos, Jim Raptis, Nikolaos Paschos and the rest of the Loceye team have been working tirelessly the past 5 years on delivering a state-of-the-art platform focusing on web-based predictive analytics (along with its AI design assistant VisualEyes) that has been trusted by thousands of designers and enthusiasts worldwide, and are now setting another great milestone for the Greek startup ecosystem.

We are happy that the company is now passing on to the experienced hands of Mike Storm, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, Dennis Green-Lieber from Neurons, who will be continuing the quest to provide predictive analytics and work towards taking the product to greater heights.

The acquisition by the Danish company is expected to revolutionise the way brands understand and predict customer behaviour.

16/11/2021

We are very happy to announce our investment in Greece's first Buy-Now-Pay-Later ( ) startup with interest-free payments and powered by Open Banking!

finloup closed an oversubscribed €1m funding round where we acted as lead investors along with TECS Capital & renowned angels, and with this round the team aims to expand its presence in Greece and offer a complete BNPL product for merchants and consumers alike.

We are very excited to start working alongside Antonis Prentzas, Marios Noutsos, Kyriakos Georgiou and Stelios Gasparinatos, who all share a common vision and enthusiasm for the fintech sector.

‘Only 13% of Greeks over the age of 25 have access to a credit card’

16/09/2021

14/09/2021

Μπορείτε να παρακολουθήσετε στον παρακάτω σύνδεσμο την συζήτηση «Ευκαιρίες Χρηματοδότησης: Χρηματοδοτικά Εργαλεία & Επενδυτικά Ταμεία» που πραγματοποιήθηκε κατα τη διάρκεια της 85ης #ΔΕΘ, με συμμετοχή του Partner και Co-Founder της Velocity Dimitris G. Kalavros-Gousiou, σε ένα πάνελ με εκπροσώπους φορέων του οικοσυστήματος στην Ελλάδα:

⏩ Η επόμενη μέρα των VCs στην Ελλάδα

😇 O ρόλος των επενδυτών 'αγγέλων' και το νέο νομοθετικό πλαίσιο

🚀 Success stories ελληνικών startup

💸 Eπενδυτικές στρατηγικές

10/08/2021

We are very happy to see our portfolio company intelligencia.ai successfully raising its Series A round, led by its amazing founders Dimitrios Skaltsas and Vangelis Vergetis!

Based in New York City and Athens, Intelligencia applies predictive analytics to estimate the probability of success for clinical trials and optimize their design, enabling pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to revolutionize the drug development process and reduce associated risks.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210810005501/en/Intelligencia-Raises-12M-to-Reduce-the-Risk-of-Clinical-Research-Improve-RD-Productivity-and-Accelerate-Scientific-Breakthroughs

Intelligencia, whose AI-driven software platform enables pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to revolutionize the drug development process and

14/06/2021

Syncbnb helps vacation rental owners and managers list on multiple channels (like Airbnb, HomeAway, Booking.com and 200+ more) to increase their revenue and then makes sure all their calendars are synchronized to eliminate double bookings!

Join them live for a live demo showcase on June 23 at 5PM GMT 👇

https://astrho.org/events/syncbnb-demo/

Event DescriptionPMS DemoSyncbnb helps vacation rental owners and managers list on multiple channels (like Airbnb, HomeAway, Booking.com and 200+ more) to increase their revenue and then makes sure al...

07/06/2021

SERG Technologies (https://sergtechnologies.com/) has embarked on a journey to help improve the lives of millions of patients worldwide suffering from Parkinson's Disease. By combining machine learning with wearable sensors, SERG is able to keep track of the patient's progress in a completely remote manner, meaning that treatment & diagnosis becomes accessible to more people than ever before.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57342760

The BBC's tech correspondent looks at how AI could change the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

29/04/2021

We are proud to be see intelligencia.ai being picked by Forbes as one of the 50 "most promising AI companies in the US". Intelligencia is one of only eight healthcare companies, and the only Greek company, on the list. Forbes has partnered with Sequoia Capital and Meritech Capital to create a list of pioneer companies across sectors that are using artificial intelligence at the core of their operations.

Intelligencia's AI-fueled software platform enables partners in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors to de-risk and accelerate the development of novel therapies.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2021/04/26/ai-50-americas-most-promising-artificial-intelligence-companies/?sh=64a92aa677cf

Covid-19 devastated some industries but accelerated AI use by companies across the country.

20/04/2021

Save the date! Join the live discussion on Clubhouse with Velocity's Co-Founder and Partner Dimitris G. Kalavros-Gousiou and Antonis Samothrakis from instacar along with some very special guests on the future of mobility.

April 25, 2021 9:00 PM EEST

April 25th 2021, 9:00:00 pm EEST with Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou, Adam Markakis, Antonis Samothrakis, Harris Takas, Lefteris Karabatsakis Κυριακάτικη κουβέντα για το παρόν και το μέλλον του mobility.