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A Smooth Start

You are provided with full legal and taxation support, to get your mind clear of anything other than your idea..
Seed Funding

The Openfund provides start-ups with a seed capital ranging from 25.000 to 35.000 €.
Extensive Advice

Through the Openfund you can tap on a pool of advisors covering all aspects of starting-up and growing.
Follow-up

The end of the growth period does not result into the discontinuation of enjoying the benefits.

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Christos Kalantzis

Data Architect, YouSendit

Christos Kalantzis

Data Architect at YouSendit.com, US

Christos Kalantzis received a B.COMM in Management of Information Systems from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and completed his business graduate studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has used his business and technical knowledge to help start-ups, in both Montreal and Silicon Valley, by being able to bridge the gap between those two realms. He is currently the Data Architect for YousenIt.com, a late-stage startup in Silicon Valley, solving their massive data storage issues, and engineering data designs to allow them to scale infinitely in the future. Christos is a founding member of shivacode.com, a blog created to share enterprise software design principles and experiences from a few Bay Area engineers, who have been around the block a few times
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.
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.
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.
Nicolas Ampazis

Assistant Professor

Nicolas Ampazis

Assistant Professor at the University of the Aegean, Entrepreneur - Chios, Greece

Nicholas Ampazis received a BSc (Hons) degree in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London in 1992, an MSc degree (with distinction) in Information Processing and Neural Networks from King's College London in 1995, and a PhD degree (with distinction) in Neural Computing from the National Technical University of Athens in 2001. During his PhD studies he received a scholarship from the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece. Since 2005 he is an assistant professor at the Department of Financial and Management Engineering at the University of the Aegean, Greece and received tenure for this position as a faculty member in 2009. His main research interests include collective intelligence, information retrieval, data mining, and recommender systems. In 2006 he launched one of the first Web 2.0 startups in Greece (Feeds 2.0) for which he received a Global Innovator Award from Guidewire Group and the first prize for best business plan at the 8th International Venture Capital Forum (2007).
Paraskevas Evripidou

Professor, University of Cyprus

Paraskevas Evripidou

Software Engineer, Professor, Dept. Chair

Undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the Higher Technical Institute of Cyprus (H.N.D. in 1981) and University of Southern California (B.Sc. in 1985). Graduate studies at the University of Southern California (M.Sc. in 1986 and Ph.D in 1990 in Computer Engineering). He has taught at the University of Southern California, USA (part-time faculty, 1989-1990) and at the Southern Methodist University, USA (Assistant Professor, 1990-1994). His research interests are: Parallel Processing and Computer Architecture, Data-Flow Systems, and Functional Programming and Parallelizing Compilers. Paraskevas also set up the Cyprus Entrepreneurship Competition, an annual competition with an investment as the award.
Arda Kutsal

General Manager, Crenvo

Arda Kutsal

General Manager, Crenvo Consultancy - Founder/Editor, Webrazzi.com - Istanbul, Turkey

Arda Kutsal is an entrepreneur, business adviser and blogger living in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the author of the most popular Turkish Web 2.0 blog, Webrazzi and also General Manager of Crenvo Consultancy. Crenvo provides consultancy services to mostly internet companies about marketing, strategic management, investments, research and product management. He is one of the most influential people in Turkish internet market.
Nayia Antoniou

Lawyer

Nayia Antoniou

Associate, Christopoulos and Associates

Nayia is an associate with the firm which she joined in 2008 as a trainee. Her practice is focused on Company & Commercial matters, advising on company establishment, corporate governance and the entry into all type of commercial contracts, including agency and distribution agreements. She advises in particular on the legal framework within which Cypriot companies operate in Greece. Nayia also represents clients in the registration of trademarks and competition law matters. Nayia qualified to the Athens Bar in 2009. She obtained her law degree from the Democritus University of Thrace in 2006 and an LLM in International Commercial Law from Westminster University, London in 2007.