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The Openfund provides start-ups with a seed capital ranging from €30.000 to 50.000.
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Andrew Hyde

Community Director, Techstars

Andrew Hyde

Community Director, Techstars - Boulder, CO, US

Andrew Hyde is a designer, community organizer and a coffee evangelist, recently working with Techstars as the Community Director. Among a number of start-ups, he has also founded Startup Weekend, focusing on community building and providing an encouraging introduction to entrepreneurship. Previously he has worked on Interaction Design projects for leading ad agencies, non profits, and political campaigns. Andrew enjoys riding his bike year round in the great town of Boulder, Colorado.
Alec Karys

CTO, mShopper

Alec Karys

CTO, mShopper - Boston, MA, US

Alec Karys is currently the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of mShopper, a company which provides real time price comparison, shopping and ad services over mobile devices, and he is also a Mentor at TechStars in Cambridge, MA. Alec has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, technical team manager and consultant at Amazon.com and various other technology and services companies. He was also co-founder and served as the CEO of Synapse Ventures Group, a virtual incubator, which provided start-up services to early stage technology companies, and Cognate Technologies, an E-Learning company based on patent pending technology from MIT research. Alec received his MBA and Electrical Engineering degrees from Northeastern University and attended the Engineering Executive Program at Stanford University. Alec has two issued patents in medical protocol authoring and delivery, and he has four patents in process in the area of mobile commerce.
Nikos Kryvossidis

Director, Partnership Services, EMEA, Google

Nikos Kryvossidis

Director, Partnership Services, EMEA, Google

Nikos joined Google in 2007. At present he is responsible for the technical side of direct Google partnerships in EMEA for various Google product areas including Mobile. Prior to Google Nikos was Engineering SVP for Visto, an American company specialising in Mobile Email and Personal Information Management (PIM) synchronisation. Has also served in Symbian where he was responsible for Messaging, PIM, SyncML, Browsing and Location Based Services. Earlier on worked for Lucent Technologies in the area of ISUP and ISDN Services. Has also worked as a software engineer on Intelligent Network Services (Nortel) when AIN 0.1 and CS1 were being developed. Nikos holds an MSc in Computer Science from McGill University, Montreal and a BSc in Mathematics from University of Patras, Greece.
Marco Veremis

Chairman, Upstream Systems

Marco Veremis

Chairman, Upstream Systems - Athens, Greece

Marco Veremis is the Commercial Director and Chairman of the Board at Upstream Systems. He has prior experience at McCann Ericsson, London, UK, as well as at Grey Advertising, London, UK and DDB London, where he served as account manager and account planner. Marco holds a B.A. in Economics from Warwick University, and M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University, UK.
Dimosthenis Kaponis

Software Engineer, Cosmical

Dimosthenis Kaponis

Software Engineer, Entrepreneur, Cosmical Technology - Athens, Greece

Dimosthenis Kaponis is the founder and managing director of Cosmical Technology Ltd. and a Ph.D candidate at Imperial College London where he also got his M.Eng in Information Systems Engineering. At Imperial, he worked as a Research Associate in the Intelligent Systems and Networks group, during which time he worked on two European IST research projects, architecting an electronic contract-based trust mechanism in workflow management systems. Prior to founding Cosmical Technology in 2005, he worked as a consultant and contractor for a number of companies in the United Kingdom and Greece, specialising on software architecture, software engineering, distributed systems, security and algorithms.
Andreas Veneris

founder, Vennsa technologies

Andreas Veneris

founder, Vennsa technologies

Andreas Veneris is the President/CEO of Vennsa Technologies, a company that develops automated solutions to chip debugging and verification. He has 15 years of R&D experience in CAD software for chip debugging, verification, synthesis and test with more than 80 publications and five patents in that field. In addition to these credentials, he was an early member at OnRamp Inc., a pioneering internet multimedia company that went public in 1997. While at OnRamp, he was a member of the team that performed the first webcast ever (37th Annual Grammy Awards, 1995), an event acknowledged by members of the American Congress. He also worked in the early development stages of Mosaic (later Netscape) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (Illinois). His operating experience is complemented by extensive experience in team building and technology transfer. As an associate professor at the University of Toronto and the Athens University of Economics and Business, he managed a large group of R&D activities and delivered them to the industry with specialized in-house tools. His multi-million R&D proect raising effort has attracted funds from premier semiconductor companies in the Americas, Asia and Europe. Prior to that, he was a visiting faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 in Computer Science. He holds an M.Sc. degree from the University of Southern California (1992) and a Bachelor degree from the University of Patras (1991). He is a senior member of IEEE, ACM, AAAS, Technical Chamber of Greece, Professional Engineers of Ontario and The Planetary Society and he has co-authored two books.
Patrick Malone

CTO Microsoft Hellas

Patrick Malone

CTO Microsoft Hellas - Athens, Greece

Patrick Malone was born in Athens, and holds a BSc degree in Software Engineering from the University of Birmingham, and an MBA from the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA). He has been working in Microsoft since 2005, initially as a Senior Developer Evangelist, starting 2006 as Architect Evangelist and since January 2008 as a Technology Director. The technology department is responsible for the company's relationship towards the software developers in the community, promoting the software platform, and also adaptation of the company's newer technologies in the market. Before Microsoft, ο Patrick was for 3 years an independent technology consultant in various organizations, while earlier he was the Technical Director of Broker Systems, a pioneering company that produced software for stock market agents. Patrick is married and has a 4 year old daughter and a son that just arrived, that make sure he has no free time at all – but the time he spends with them make the best parts of his day!
Leda Karabela

Executive & Leadership coach, Athens, Greece

Leda Karabela

Executive & Leadership coach, Athens, Greece

Spanning 25 years of experience in international management, public affairs, strategic marketing and corporate philanthropy, Leda Karabela's career focus has been building alliances with and among institutional stakeholders. Primary focus has been external audiences, such as opinion leaders, media, customers, and donors. Today, she is bringing her executive experience into the field of coaching, helping clients improve their performance, effectiveness and reach. Having held responsibilities for global projects and working with virtual teams in multiple countries for Fortune 50 companies such as BP and Microsoft, she has also led the corporate relations program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business raising over fifty million dollars during a major capital campaign. She holds an LL.B from Aristotelian University Law School in Greece, an M.S. from Boston University Law School and a Graduate Certificate in Executive and Professional Coaching from University of Texas, School of Management in Dallas. She has lived in Boston, San Francisco, London, Athens and Dubai.