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

Associate, GC Seed

Niko Bonatsos

Associate, General Catalyst Seed, US

Niko Bonatsos is an Associate with GC Seed, the seed investment vehicle of General Catalyst Partners. He focuses on investments in consumer Internet, cloud computing and mobile with particular emphasis on seed stage investments and working with Entrepreneurs-In-Residence to launch new businesses.
Niko has worked and studied in four countries. Prior to joining GC Seed, he was a founding team member of myLinkpower whose mission is to help professionals improve and get more value from their profile, connections and activity on LinkedIn. At Stanford Niko was a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering and provided consulting services for technology management related issues in cloud computing. Niko has also conducted research in biomedical signal processing as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Before, Niko worked as a technical consultant to U.K. companies on implementing lean manufacturing principles, an R&D engineer for Yokogawa Electric Corporation in Tokyo, as a recipient of the highly selective Vulcanus-in-Japan program and as a student consultant to Microsoft Hellas.
Niko is a graduate of Stanford University, earning an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering as a Fulbright Scholar; the University of Cambridge, earning an M.Phil. in Manufacturing Engineering and Management; and the National Technical University of Athens, earning an engineer’s degree (Dipl.-Ing) in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Ioannis Vasilaras

Ex-CEO, Infote

Ioannis Vasilaras

Ex-CEO, Infote - Athens, Greece

Dr Yiannis Vasilaras has a long career in the telecommunications industry. He was the Managing Director of INFOTE (yellow pages), subsidiary of OTE, until 2008. Prior to this position he served as Director General and as Director in various OTE operating units, and earlier as Telecommunications Engineer. He also taught courses related to electronics and physics in the University of Athens.
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.
Yorgos Panzaris

Researcher, Entrepreneur

Yorgos Panzaris

Researcher, Entrepreneur - Athens, Greece

Yorgos Panzaris has received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and a PhD in the History of recent technology from Stanford University. He has researched and lectured on the history of networked computing and the emergence of Silicon Valley as an ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship. He has worked as a policy advisor at the Greek Ministry of Development and a research associate at the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society. Yorgos is also the co-creator of AthensBook, a popular city guide for smartphones; and Geo|Ads, one of the first geo-aware advertising platforms for the iPhone.
Andreas Constantinou

Director, Vision Mobile

Andreas Constantinou

Research Director, Vision Mobile - London, UK

Dr. Andreas Constantinou is Research Director at VisionMobile, a prominent industry analyst firm in telecoms. Andreas has nine years experience in research, development and strategy in wireless, specialising in mobile handsets, software strategy and open source. While at VisionMobile, Andreas has worked with several brand-name clients including Sony Ericsson, RIM, France Telecom, T-Mobile, Qualcomm and Symbian. His interests include uncovering under-the-radar industry trends and pursuing human-centric design. When not hopping on planes, Andreas spends his time in Athens, Greece. Andreas holds a Ph.D. in Video Compression from the University of Bristol, UK. You can follow Andreas on twitter.com/andreascon.
Andreas Acavalos

ex-General Manager, PWC

Andreas Acavalos

ex-General Manager, Price Waterhouse Coopers Consulting - Athens, Greece

Andreas Acavalos is a Management Consultant, specializing in organizational strategy. He has served for over 20 years as a Partner of PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Greece and was Managing Director of PwC Consulting S.A., the firm’s consultancy arm, until its divestment in 2002. He now operates as an independent consultant and serves on the Board of a number of companies in Greece and Switzerland.
Panayotis Vryonis

Social media consultant

Panayotis Vryonis

Social media consultant - Athens, Greece

Panayotis Vryonis studied Mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University Of Athens. He decided not to get his degree and instead work as a software developer for small and larger projects. In 1999 he co-founded and held the position of CTO at e-Go Travel Ltd, a company providing on-line travel services for Greek destinations. In 2001 he joined the leading Greek interactive marketing agency, yellownetroad and after the merger of the two companies, became Chief Developer of OgilvyOne Worldwide Athens. An active advocate of Open Source Software, he was one of the founding members of the Hellenic Linux Users Group in 1998 and served multiple times on the Group's board. He is one of the first Greek bloggers and the first greek podcaster. His greek blog aggregator, called "monitor", played a key role in the early stages of the Greek blogosphere (2005). Since early 2007, Panayotis Vryonis works as a social media consulting for PASOK (Panhellenic Socialist Movement).
Petros Katsampouris

CEO, Vivechrom

Petros Katsampouris

CEO, Vivechrom - Athens, Greece

Petros Katsampouris is the Managing Director of Vivechrom S.A., the Greek subsidiary of AKZONOBEL. Prior to this position he served as Deputy General Manager in ELGEKA, Business Unit Manager in KRAFT/Jacobs-Suchart, Sales Director in Pepsico-Tasty and Marketing Manager in Nestle. He is presently President of the Panhellenic Union of Paint Varnishes and Printing Ink Industry of Greece, and member of the General Council of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises.