Episode 68: Ecosystem Zoom In – The Greek Case

Francesca Aliverti hosts this Ecosystem Zoom In that lands in Greece – not your most obvious choice when selecting an innovative country but that is certainly taking off with its different iniciatives – TedXAthens, E.G.G (Eurobank) and Foud.ation are a few of the examples of iniciatives that are leading this movement, and we brought the founders – Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou (Found.ation, Velicity Partners, TEDxAthens) and Roula Bachtalia (e.g.g. – Eurobank) themselves to tell us more about it. Furthermore, the episode features a macro economical approach and an investment overview are needed into understanding the right steps into accessing the country.

More on our guests:

Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou
In 2012, Dimitris co-founded Found.ation, Greece’s premier innovation and startup hub. In 2017, they created Velocity.Partners, a pre-seed and seed venture capital fund that invests in hyper-ambitious tech founders in Greece and abroad. A while back, in 2009, he also founded TEDxAthens, one of the world’s first TEDx events.
Website: https://www.kalavros.com/
Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkalavros/

Roula Bachtalia
Roula Bachtalia is Programme Manager and Steering Committee member at the egg-enter•grow•go – a comprehensive business incubation and acceleration programme, initiated by Eurobank in cooperation with Corallia. Since 2013 egg is continuously helping the Greek startup community to improve competitiveness in a challenging global market, under three main pillars extroversion, financing & business networking and it has been playing a crucial role in shaping the Greek startup scene, boosting innovative entrepreneurship. It offers attractive opportunities for financing and commercial operations, with suitable infrastructure, mentoring and exporting activities through the egg Start-Up (incubator) and egg Scale-Up (accelerator) platforms.
Website: https://www.eurobank.gr/en/group/corporate-social-responsibility/innovation/egg-enter-grow-go
Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roulabachtalia/

Co-Founder and Partner, FTS Group
About the Author
Francesca Aliverti - Co-Founder and Partner, FTS Group Francesca Aliverti is the Co-Founder and Partner at FTS Group, a startup mentor at Startupbootcamp FinTech & Cybersecurity, an Equity Partner of Great Stuff Ventures and recently appointed as Head of Business Development at Elevandi for the EMEA region. Previously she was a Co-Founder at Holland FinTech where she also held a position as the Head of Strategy & Business Development. In this role she catalyzed company transformation from inception to a +400 members enterprise. She is highly fluent in the fintech European ecosystem with tangents across the world - in technology issues from a business point of view, from the traditional structures, to the most innovative solutions in the market, having built FinTech ecosystems and fostering innovation dialogues. Francesca is currently an active asset in strengthening Elevandi’s leadership at the intersection of Policy, Finance and Technology in the EU and Africa regions. She is also a regular contributor and content curator to different financial inclusion projects with a focus on emerging markets, on initiatives with Timepledge.org, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Additionally, she is regular host at the Breaking Banks Europe show, top fintech podcast in Europe. Francesca speaks Italian, English and basic Greek. Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesca-aliverti-625006ba/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/franvontiiser Provoke: https://provoke.fm/author/francesca/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francescaliverti/
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