Learn, Build and Grow with us Envolve Entrepreneurship is an entrepreneurship support organization, founded by the Libra Group, that provides resources, education and award programs for startup businesses globally. The organization encompasses the former Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA) and the American Entrepreneurship Award (AEA) – programs which have declared 43 winners since 2012, supporting job creation and economic growth in Greece and the USA. Striving for a global society where all business owners can prosper and grow, Envolve is committed to developing and cultivating entrepreneurial ecosystems, by ensuring business support services are more readily available to diverse entrepreneurs.

Orange Grove is an inspirational incubator with a vision to empower talented individuals to create sustainable businesses, which contribute to economic growth, social cohesion and entrepreneurial culture in Greece. Orange Grove’s mission is to support startups by providing access to expertise and international networks in order to grow successful businesses and create job positions in Greece; facilitate the exchange of best practices with the aim to foster two-way brain mobility; encourage an open, transparent and cooperative business environment; and, strengthen & diversify the Greek entrepreneurial ecosystem. Orange Grove is an initiative of the Netherlands Embassy in Greece and is financially supported by Dutch & Greek businesses and grantmaking foundations in Greece.

IQbility IQbility is a corporate business incubator offering high quality mentorship,angel funding and business networks to high potential startups.

The progress of individuals through the cultivation of an entrepreneurial mindset for well being and economic independence.

Metavallon VC is a €32 million venture capital firm that specializes in seed stage funding for technology companies. The firm funds companies that will operate at the forefront of business and technology innovation. Metavallon’s mission is to invest in and work alongside ambitious entrepreneurs, helping them build transformational businesses across multiple stages, geographies, and industries.

BlueGrowth is a marine challenge/startup competition to promote business ideas relating to the local sea and aquatic resources through a range of environmental, economic and social responsibility initiatives. BlueGrowth’s objective is to grow startups in the sectors of Information & Communication Technologies, Energy & Environment/ Green Shipping, Innovation in the Marine Primary Sector – Aquaculture, Sustainable Marine Tourism & Culture and Maritime Transport to the next level. In our 6-month program, startups are challenged and supported on topics such as the business model planning, finance, marketing, branding actions and pitching. Prior results of BlueGrowth competition depict the participants’potential in emerging areas such as Smart Shipping in the context of a continuously evolving Smart Port. This ground breaking process, which is conducted with the Aephoria's collaboration, now establishes Piraeus as the capital of marine innovation and creates a "think tank" for innovative

BlueGrowth is a marine challenge/startup competition to promote business ideas relating to the local sea and aquatic resources through a range of environmental, economic and social responsibility initiatives. BlueGrowth’s objective is to grow startups in the sectors of Information & Communication Technologies, Energy & Environment/ Green Shipping, Innovation in the Marine Primary Sector – Aquaculture, Sustainable Marine Tourism & Culture and Maritime Transport to the next level. In our 6-month program, startups are challenged and supported on topics such as the business model planning, finance, marketing, branding actions and pitching. Prior results of BlueGrowth competition depict the participants’potential in emerging areas such as Smart Shipping in the context of a continuously evolving Smart Port. This ground breaking process, which is conducted with the Aephoria's collaboration, now establishes Piraeus as the capital of marine innovation and creates a "think tank" for innovative

The Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and Industry Disruptors Game Changers (ID-GC) have partnered up with the support of the Greek Mobile Operators Association (EEKT), for the creation of Invent ICT, a tech-incubator that is based in Athens, Greece.

Aiming at the development of innovative entrepreneurship and a new generation of technological progress through the creation of new & viable business, Invent ICT calls for students, researchers and graduates of Polytechnic Schools who have a creative idea in the field of Information and Communication Technologies to join the incubator!

The program is based on the personalized consulting methodology, as it has been developed by the ICCS of the NTUA, and is making use of ID-GC‘s experience and international network on issues of extroversion, mentoring and business incubation.

Teams entering the program have the chance to meet and consult with experienced Executives from both the Market and Academia, who offer practical guidance to help them grow and mature their ideas, turning them into viable business.

Furthermore, Invent ICT is designed around a number of services:

Training potential entrepreneurs through practical tools and examples
Supporting teams on researching and analyzing technology, analyzing the market and competitors
Assessment of business plan and techno-economic study and continuous reassessment of business affairs
Risk Analysis
Evolution of the business idea and its implementation, based on international practices, in cooperation with international network development organizations
Presentations by entrepreneurs, startup founders, market executives, mentors and academics on business engagement, special business management issues, thematic talks on technologies and market sectors as well as interactive discussions
Networking, in Greece and abroad.

THERMI Business Incubator invests since 2004 in advanced technologies and innovative products helping to found over 40 new innovating startups. THERMI hosts startups, that have proven technological innovation, in a friendly business environment, helping them achieve their growth potential.

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a promising program aiming at equipping aspiring or new entrepreneurs with important skills and knowledge in order to start and run a successful business. It offers the opportunity for participants to communicate, exchange, and share business ideas with experienced peers, and learn to live, work and collaborate with people in the environment of a foreign country.

SEEDplus is the name of our new consortium for cycle 9 of the programme, with the participation of Greece, Bulgaria, UK, Estonia, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal and Spain. The general objective of SEEDplus is to contribute to the overall EYE objectives: to promote the exchange and development of European entrepreneurs, to foster mutual learning and to help SMEs across Europe to be more international and competitive.

egg, the premium Incubator & Accelerator that is continuously helping the Greek (tech) startup community to improve competitiveness in a challenging global market, under two main pillars extroversion & financing - egg Start-up platform aims to support entrepreneurship at early stage, confirming potential growth - egg Scale-up platform provides sufficient funding to startups, aiming business sustainability

OK!Thess is Thessaloniki’s leading startup hub and a catalyst for the growth of the local innovation ecosystem. We help entrepreneurs bring innovative ideas to market through an acceleration and pre-incubation program that includes training, coaching, networking and access to capital. The space of OK!Thess is also the place where community meetups and open events allow like-minded peers to mix and connect.

Aiming at the development of innovative entrepreneurship and a new generation of technological progress through the creation of new & viable business, Invent ICT calls for students, researchers and graduates of Polytechnic Schools who have a creative idea in the field of Information and Communication Technologies to join the incubator!

The program is based on the personalized consulting methodology, as it has been developed by the ICCS of the NTUA, and is making use of ID-GC‘s experience and international network on issues of extroversion, mentoring and business incubation.

Teams entering the program have the chance to meet and consult with experienced Executives from both the Market and Academia, who offer practical guidance to help them grow and mature their ideas, turning them into viable business.

Furthermore, Invent ICT is designed around a number of services:

Training potential entrepreneurs through practical tools and examples
Supporting teams on researching and analyzing technology, analyzing the market and competitors
Assessment of business plan and techno-economic study and continuous reassessment of business affairs
Risk Analysis
Evolution of the business idea and its implementation, based on international practices, in cooperation with international network development organizations
Presentations by entrepreneurs, startup founders, market executives, mentors and academics on business engagement, special business management issues, thematic talks on technologies and market sectors as well as interactive discussions
Networking, in Greece and abroad.

As part of the City of Athens’ Digital Roadmap, with an exclusive grant by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), Athens Partnership with the cooperation of COSMOTE, Nokia and SNF, created the Athens Digital Lab (ADL) for the City of Athens. It’s the 1st early-stage municipal tech incubator, for ”smart cities” solutions. With open competition, ADL invites startups and young researchers to submit their digital ideas,under specific thematic pillars. The proposals are transformed into advanced tech applications, addressing the city’s most pressing challenges, improving the everyday life of Athenians and visitors. A pioneering venture that introduces innovation into the infrastructure of the Municipality and supports youth entrepreneurship. During the 1st Open Call, 4 startups developed their IoT ideas and implemented their pilot applications in the municipality of Athens. Today, in the 2nd round, ADL welcomed 8 new teams, who will also change Athens with their groundbreaking solutions!

‘AthensFashionClub’ Fashion School & ‘The Fashion Gate’ Athens Fashion Business Incubator AthensFashionClub Fashion School is a certified Center by the State as an Educational Fashion Insitute, founded by the Designer Maria Vytinidou. It belongs to a Fashion Group with business activity in the field of Luxury Fashion Design, Sustainable Clothing, Wearable Technology and Business growth for Fashion professionals. The company has been distinguished by Premiere Vision-Paris Trade Fair and Startupbootcamp Accelerator in Eindhoven, as one of the most Innovative Fashion Brands in Greece and one of the 20 best High Technology Fashion companies in the world for creating Wearable Technology Garments, establishing in this way top choice for studing Fashion and leading Fashion School in Greece. AthensFashionClub is a member of Orange Grove acceleration programme of the Dutch Embassy in Athens and has also organized the 1rst Fashion Startup Weekend in Greece in cooperation with Techstars W

The ACT Entrepreneurship Hub is a startup accelerator and provides: • Workshops and specialized training for start-ups (such as VentureGarden) • Mentoring, networking with business partners and investors • Pitching events with investors (VCs and Business Angels) • Co-working space in the ACT Bissell Library and in collaborative Business Incubators • Business ideas competitions (such as the annual Pappajohn Business Plan Competition) • information on NSRF financing programs, and other financing tools such as microcredits.

Youth Entrepreneurship Club is an non profit organisation, based in Greece, which supplies the new generation of entrepreneurs with guidance, support and means to create ventures with a social or economic impact. Our vision is to inspire and support young people in order to show them that everyone, can create value from nothing; in order to create a positive social or economic impact in Greece. Dedication to spreading the entrepreneurial spirit in the country that has it in its DNA, is the word that defines our actions. Teamwork and cooperation are the means to achieve our goals. Knowledge and innovation are a compass for our plans. Value creation from scratch, no money capital, is our bet. Personal development is a magical process where we identify boundaries only to overcome them, with our eyes set to the horizon!

Action Finance Initiative (AFI), a Non-Profit-Civil-Partnership founded in 2014 comes as the answer to a very specific need, that of providing access to funding and business insights to those who have been exluded from the traditional funding channels . AFI’s founding fathers are ActionAid Hellas and the French organization Adie, the leader in microfinancing provision in Western Europe. Action Finance Initiative (AFI), besides providing access to funds with a ceiling of 12,500 Euros to those who cannot access bank lending, offers extensive training and support to those who either retain an existing business and strive to further develop it or those who want to turn their ideas and aspirations into viable businesses. More than 270 existing and newly found business have been funded through AFI leading to the creation of more than 400 jobs while AFI provided much needed funds to startups that nowdays are success stories such as PHEE, Hempoil, Speen, Cleopatra's Sponges etc.

Robotics Academy UoM was founded in the vision to transfer the results of international research and emerging Robotics programs to society. The ultimate goals are to increase the applicability of social robots and to acquire learning in an experiential and playful way and inspire everlasting love for learning. Our expertise on the multifactorial and cross-disciplinary nature of designing and developing social robots applications, coming from our academic and applied research record in the field, combined with our experience with actual prototypes in pilot or large-scale applications guides our efforts in the Educational and the Social Robotics.

ReGeneration is an opportunity for young people to stand out, right here in Greece!

It is an innovative paid placement, and personal and professional development program aimed at talented graduates of all backgrounds interested in taking their first professional steps and distinguishing themselves in Greece.

ReGeneration is a project of the Global Shapers Athens Hub, an initiative of the World Economic Forum designed to help combat both youth unemployment and the brain drain phenomenon - when talented graduates flee Greece to find employment abroad.

The People’s Trust, is a Not-for-Profit Organization, providing micro-funding and free business development services to small and medium-sized enterprises in Athens and Thessaloniki. Our primary goal is to reduce unemployment in Greece by supporting the creation of new jobs through business. We provide funding up to €10,000 aimed at those who want to start a new business or want to further develop their existing small business, but are unable to find other sources of funding. Alternatively, we provide access to interest-free loans of up to €10,000. Since TPT’s launch in 2016, we have provided financing to more than 200 companies. Over 90% of them continue to operate and grow!

"The “New Agriculture for a new Generation” program is an initiative that aims to create youth career opportunities and entrepreneurship in the agrofood sector in Greece.

Rutgers University is leading this innovative multiyear program, in partnership with the Agricultural University of Athens and the American Farm School.

The program us implemented through an exclusive grant from the Stavros Niarchos foundation. "

i4G S.A. (“Incubation for Growth”) is the management company of the first private incubator in Greece established in 2002 and one of the leading high-tech private Incubator in SE Europe. In 16 years of operations, I4G has incubated more than 80 companies, completed numerous projects in Greece and abroad and gained track to all stages of entrepreneurship from idea generation to IPO and related activities (e.g. training, mentoring, coaching, consulting, networking etc). i4G also runs i4G PRO (i4gpro.gr), a pre-incubator/accelerator/co-working space associated with a general acceleration program targeting young University Graduates. i4G PRO is located in the city center across the Aristotle University and offers 100 working spaces to young entrepreneurs to validate their ideas (market, product, technical) and create a working prototype under the supervision of i4G staff and network of local and international mentors.

Endeavor is an international non-profit organization, which selects and supports the most promising companies around the world with the help of the most prominent business leaders and investors globally. Since 1997, the 1,840+ Endeavor Entrepreneurs from 1,153+ companies selected globally have created more than 3 million jobs and in 2017 they generated approximately $20 billion in revenues.

"The Athens Startup Business Incubator (Th.E.A.) is one of the most important initiatives of the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) for entrepreneurship promotion. It supports innovative new business ideas with a strong extroversion potential.

Th.E.A was established in 2014, with the support of the Municipality of Athens and with funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the NSRF 2007-2013 funding framework (Project Ref. No. 465418). Currently, Th.E.A. is a self-financed initiative of ACCI, kindly assisted and supported on multiple levels by the Region of Attica.

Through Th.E.A. ACCI aims at strengthening and advancement of entrepreneurship in multiple economic sectors with a particular focus on:

- high tech areas exploring cutting edge technologies and technological innovations

- ­traditional sectors presenting strong growth and extroversion potential."

The National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos" operates in its campus the “Lefkippos” Technology Park of Attica. The Park serves as a pole of attraction for approximately forty international high-technology companies and innovation-driven start-ups and SMEs, who are in a continuous, dynamic interaction with the Research Community of the Centre, and can readily access the Centre’s Research Infrastructures. The companies can use the facilities of the Congress Center as well as the services of the Demokritos’ Innovation Office concerning partnerships for research proposals, issues on technology transfer and intellectual property, access to VCs and other funding schemes.

Alexander Innovation Zone, is the managing body that organizes and promotes the Thessaloniki Innovation Zone (TIZ), a unique project in Greece, intending to the attraction and establishment of innovative enterprises and research units in Thessaloniki, thus contributing to the economic development of the region. Our flagship initiative “Thessaloniki Innovation Friendly Destination” is already undergoing and supported from all local stakeholders from academia, businesses and local authorities. Thessaloniki, one of the youngest cities in Europe, enjoys a vibrant ecosystem of people and resources, highly receptive to international cooperation. Our purpose is to place Thessaloniki in the global marketplace as an ideal place to invest, innovate and live.

An initiative of ICT Association of Northern Greece (SEPVE), Technical Chamber of Greece / Central Macedonia and Aristotle University to bridge the gap between the academic and the business community, enhance research activity and achieve commercialization and financial results and reverse the brain drain.

The National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos" operates in its campus the “Lefkippos” Technology Park of Attica. The Park serves as a pole of attraction for approximately forty international high-technology companies and innovation-driven start-ups and SMEs, who are in a continuous, dynamic interaction with the Research Community of the Centre, and can readily access the Centre’s Research Infrastructures. The companies can use the facilities of the Congress Center as well as the services of the Demokritos’ Innovation Office concerning partnerships for research proposals, issues on technology transfer and intellectual property, access to VCs and other funding schemes.

Alexander Innovation Zone, is the managing body that organizes and promotes the Thessaloniki Innovation Zone (TIZ), a unique project in Greece, intending to the attraction and establishment of innovative enterprises and research units in Thessaloniki, thus contributing to the economic development of the region. Our flagship initiative “Thessaloniki Innovation Friendly Destination” is already undergoing and supported from all local stakeholders from academia, businesses and local authorities. Thessaloniki, one of the youngest cities in Europe, enjoys a vibrant ecosystem of people and resources, highly receptive to international cooperation. Our purpose is to place Thessaloniki in the global marketplace as an ideal place to invest, innovate and live.

An initiative of ICT Association of Northern Greece (SEPVE), Technical Chamber of Greece / Central Macedonia and Aristotle University to bridge the gap between the academic and the business community, enhance research activity and achieve commercialization and financial results and reverse the brain drain.