MIT Enterprise Forum Greece announced the 25 semifinalist teams selected to advance to the next round of the MITEF Greece Startup Competition. Participating companies/teams spanned a diverse range of disciplines: 6 startups in internet & web, 2 in biotechnology & medicine, 7 in software, 1 in transportation, 1 in telecommunications, 2 in hardware, 1 in energy, and 5 in other categories.

We wish best of luck to the 25 startups that participated to this year’s competition (in alphabetical order):

Following the conclusion of the second round of the first MITEF Greece Startup Competition, MIT Enterprise Forum Greece, announced the 10 finalists selected to advance to the final round.

During the 2nd judging round, an extremely competitive process was completed where all the 25 semifinalists pitched live their business plans to MITEF Greece’s well respected judging panel. Top-level Greek and international business executives, entrepreneurs and investors evaluated and selected the following 10 startups, listed in alphabetical order:

ARK Analytics

Contadd

EventReception

Insybio Ltd.

Laddroller

Sentio Solutions

StreamOwl

VesselBot

Workathlon

Yodiwo

MIT Enterprise Forum Greece welcomed all qualified judges who will lend their critical eye and expertise to the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016, assessed the merits of entrant startups and provided valuable feedback.

Please follow this link and meet the Judges of the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Between the mentors of MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016 were many successful entrepreneurs, investors, partners at venture capital firms, or experienced angel investors, partners at a law firms, senior executives from established enterprises with domain experience and technical experts, who shared their valuable knowledge that is critical in determining the best of the best of the startup community in Greece.

Please follow this link and meet the Mentors of the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Highlights from the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Vassilis Papakonstantinou, Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum Greece, explains the concept and the process of the annual MITEF Greece Startup Competition.

Mike Snyder, Cultural Attaché, discusses the importance of the competition that was held with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Athens.

Katerina Saridaki, Executive Director of MITEF Greece, introduces the MIT Bootcamp. The 10 Greek competition accelerator finalists visited the MIT campus to be exposed to MIT’s diverse entrepreneurial culture, embodied by its technology, engineering, and innovation programs and participated at MIT Bootcamp.

Linda Plano, Founder of Plano & Simple, shares her insight on the MITEF Greece Startup Competition.

Xenophon Paparrigopoulos, Partner at POTAMITIS VEKRIS, shares his insight on the MITEF Greece Startup Competition.

Michael Bletsas, Research Scientist & Director of Computing, MIT Media Lab, shared his personal journey and moderated the panel discussion between investors.

Nikolas Evangelopoulos, Manager, Advisory Services at EY, discusses about coaching the 25 semifinalists of MITEF Greece Startup Competition.

Aspasia Voulgari, Associate Director of Korn Ferry | HayGroup, Southern Europe, discusses about coaching the 25 semifinalists of MITEF Greece Startup Competition.

Panagiotis Papagiannakopoulos, Senior Manager at EY, IT Advisory & Information Security shares her insight on the MITEF Greece Startup Competition.

Tina Miteko, Founder & CEO of Marketing For Tech, shares her insight on the MITEF Greece Startup Competition.

Manousos Maropakis, Co-founder & General Manager of Visible LT, shares her insight on the MITEF Greece Startup Competition.

Marina Hatsopoulos, Entrepreneur & Angel Investor, discusses the importance of the intensive summer workshop, produced by MIT Technology Review and the MIT Enterprise Forum. The MIT Bootcamp provides participants with an opportunity to receive hands-on exposure to methodologies, techniques, and proven strategies that will help them to take their business to the next level.

Charalampos Papadopoulos, Economic Diplomat & Business Developer for Tech Startups, discusses about participating as a mentor during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition.

Thanasis Kotsanis, Group Medical Manager Immunology, AbbVie Greece, discusses about participating as a mentor during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition.

Theodore I. Vassiliadis, Global Program Manager, Go To Market Strategy, Application Delivery & Integration at Whirlpool, discusses about participating as a mentor during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition.

Testimonials: Michael Tsangidis, Founder & CEO of Apicallity Limited, discusses about his experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: Konstantinos Synodinos, Founder & CEO of Championsid.com, discusses about his experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: Panagiota Bouboureka, Founder & CEO of Conclify, discusses her experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: Theodore Edipidis, Business Development Director at contadd, talks about participating at MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: Lazaros Petrides, Co-founder & Director of EventReception.com, discusses about his experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: George Siatras, Web Developer at hopwave, discusses about his experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: Labros Digonis, Co-founder & CEO of 1st runner-up, InSyBio Ltd., discusses about his experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: Alexandros Papandreou, Founder & CEO of Learning Out of the Box P.C., discusses his experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: Aggeliki Papathanasiou, Business Development and Mihail Rihani, Chief Research Officer & Business Development, share their experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: Klairi Sacha, Marketing Lead at 2nd runner up Sentio Solutions, discusses her experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: Savvas Argyropoulos, Founder & CEO, StreamOwl, discusses his experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: Athanasia Panagiotopoulou, Co-founder & CMO of VesselBot, discusses her experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: Katerina Santikou, Managing Director at Workathlon, discusses her experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

Testimonials: Alex Maniatopoulos, CEO of Yodiwo, shares his experience during the MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2016.

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