STARTUP3 Corporates & Investors

As a travel technology company  we build the critical solutions that help airlines and airports, hotels and railways, search engines, travel agencies, tour operators and other travel players to run their operations and improve the travel experience, billions of times a year, all over the world.

APIVITA cosmetics combine naturally derived active ingredients, extracts from plants of the Greek nature, beehive products of high nutritional value, and organic essential oils. APIVITA’s Research and Development department has a proven track record of experience in developing INNOVATIVE natural and effective cosmetics. The ingredients used are on the cutting edge of green cosmetology. The R&D department also measures activity and effectiveness with in vivo and in vitro clinical studies, in collaboration with Greek and international universities, while clinical studies are also conducted on the final product, in close partnership with research institutes and universities.

Arelance is a Spanish technological consultancy company with 16 years of experience and more than 300 professionals with headquarters in Málaga and presence in major cities throughout Spain. We try to help companies in digital transformation, in IT projects but we also develop our own software products and train specialists. Our portfolio covers a large number of industries from IT, consultancy, banking, healthcare, telecom, logistics, commercial, retail to the public sector. We try to bring technology and people together.

ATHISA was created in 1983 and has extensive experience providing services to communities and responding to basic problems of hygiene, plagues control, health care waste management and environmental protection and public health. Athisa Group has set up a total of 26 health care waste plants distributed all over Europe, Africa and Asia.

The CIUS is a health cluster in south-eastern France, facilitating a community linking users, startups, and researchers of the health sector to foster the development of Healthcare innovations and usecases.

Cosmetic Valley is the historical network of the French national cosmetic industry, that federates c. 500 players, of which renowned global corporations, SMEs, institutions, labs, academics and training centers, covering all links of the cosmetics value chain, from plants cultivation to packaging and retail through industrial production processes. The world-class cluster fosters cross-sector and digital innovation bringing value to the cosmetic sector, and developed a range of support actions towards innovative startups.

Creative Nano is a research-intensive and commercialisation company providing technological solutions in the field of materials’ nanoscience and nanotechnology. The Company is a research-intensive, pilot/small batch production provider, and its team consists of a number of dynamic and highly qualified, MSc and PhD level scientists and engineers demonstrating long experience in their respective research fields with considerable expertise in the fields of surface treatment, development and validating advanced materials and nanomaterials and on the assessment of their environmental impact.

The 10 main Municipalities of Central Greece, which represent the capital of each one of the 10 counties in Greece and belonging to the Region of Central Greece, adopted in 2008 a strategy to unite their forces in order to adequately meet and serve the local citizen and local authority needs. The DCCG-Cities Net is a pioneer in using applied and new technologies based on the correct understanding of local needs, matching those with the existing and new means in order to continuously enjoy the services that can be offered through broadband, internet and other tele, IT, and data infrastructures. In particular, the e-health centre of DCCG –Cities Net provides telehealth services and other e-care services to patients and people requiring social services. Τhe competence centre of Cities Net is the municipal enterprise e-trikala SA of the Municipality of Trikala. The Municipal Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub GISEMI (gisemi.gr) is based in Trikala.

Docaposte is a subsidiary of La Poste Group, which offers innovative solutions for digital transitions of organisation, mainly in the secured transfer and management of data and documents. By combining collaborative platforms, business expertise, digital and industrial capabilities the company has established itself as a trusted business partner for the digital and mobile transformation of organisations.

A major player in the energy transition process, the EDF Group (Électricité de France) is an integrated energy company that operates across all business lines: production, transmission, distribution, trading, energy sales and energy services.

The egg was created and implemented by Eurobank in collaboration with Corallia. The programme offer startups and young entrepreneurs businesses opportunities for suitable financing, mentoring, commercial operations, networking and exporting activities.

Enedis manages the public electricity distribution network for 95% of continental France. Every day, its 38,507 employees oversee the operation, maintenance and development of a nearly 1.3 million km network.

e.NOVA is an engineering and consulting company on R&D projects and innovative business in Space Quality & Safety with expertise in Space Systems. The company is currently under incubation of projects and services for Aerospace innovation with the support of regional technological Pole « SAFE CLUSTER » from the french southeast region.

Since 2004, the e-trikala office, in cooperation with and in the line of the operational program “The Information Society” is acting in the fields of new broadband technologies, successfully implementing municipal projects. By creating infrastructure and by providing services, e-Trikala continuously aims at the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based applications, oriented to the improvement of all citizens’ everyday life simplifying public transactions, reducing telecommunication costs and delivering new services related to the local way of life. The company’s main areas of expertise are e-transportation, e-education, e-health, e-government & e-democracy, geographical Information Systems, networks (Wi-Fi, fibre optic, Wi-Max pilot application & operation), cultural event planning & organizing (exhibitions, conferences).

The cluster Innov’Alliance is a network of more than 400 members of the southern France region, covering the whole vegetal sector, from producers to consumers through solution providers. It gathers companies, research and training organizations and more than 5000 academics and researchers, building synergies around the agri-food, health ingredients, cosmetics, and aroma/fragrance ingredients markets. Innov’Alliance missions consist to support SMEs growth through open innovation. To do so, SMEs are linking with other innovative stakeholders to find relevant partners and business opportunities.

The Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée Research Centre was established in 1983. It has developed along with Côte d'Azur University on the Sophia Antipolis site in Nice. Inria is the French national research institute for the digital sciences. World-class research and technological innovation are part of our DNA, with the aim of developing and supporting scientific and entrepreneurial projects that create value for France, within a European perspective.

Max Bet Group is devoted to sports and sports betting, constantly spreading out with its assortment of games of chance as well as entertainment. Apart from providing its clients with gaming services, it also produces, services and sells electronic roulettes and slot machines and dedicates to adjacent hospitality services.

NBG Business Seeds is an integrated programme designed to foster innovative and export-oriented entrepreneurship.
It includes actions that aim at showcasing innovative ideas and projects, training and mentoring teams, and providing infrastructures, networking and financing.

NVIDIA is a computer chip manufacturer and technology company. The company specialises in the design of graphics processing units that are used in computers. NVIDIA is known as a market leader in the design of graphics processing units, or GPUs, for the gaming market, as well as system on chips, or SOCs, for the mobile computing and automotive markets.

Narrowing its focus in 2014 to target the gaming, professional visualization, data centre and automotive markets, NVIDIA was first founded in 1993.

onGranada Tech City is the brand that represents the Asociación Clúster Granada Plaza Tecnológica y Biotecnológica. Its purpose is to locate technology- and biotechnology-based projects and companies in Granada and Andalusia, taking advantage of the major advantages offered by Andalusia in this type of industry, thereby boosting the local business fabric and creating quality jobs, as well as increasing the sector’s turnover.

To consolidate technological superiority the OTE Group systematically promotes research and innovation (R&I) which generates multiple benefits for society, customers and the OTE Group as a whole, while also positively impacting on its business sustainability (future products and services, technologies and telecom networks, cost and energy efficiency, new business opportunities, competitiveness, etc.).

RC ICT - Development Center for Information and Communication Technologies is a new business-technology park with a business incubator that provides a stimulating and orderly business environment, top-notch development infrastructure, access to technological competences, a network of international connections and free support services for product development, access to markets, creating synergies and the rapid growth of ICT businesses.

Established in 1991 in cooperation with the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, and the University of Ottawa, Canada, Riga Business School (RBS) is a management – education institution within Riga Technical University (RTU). Our mission is to educate managers and build leaders who create sustainable prosperity in the Baltic region. We do this by fostering an environment in which high potential individuals are challenged, inspired and engaged through interactive learning in the world’s top management practices.

SAFE Cluster (Security and Aerospace actors for the Future of Earth) is a French “competitiveness cluster” gathering around 450 members including companies (SMEs, medium companies and large groups), research and academia partners, mainly from the areas of security and civil protection. SAFE Cluster works closely with the practitioners, with a formal partnership with the Ministry of Interior – Civil Protection Directorate on research and technology development and research monitoring, but also with regional and local authorities as well as fire and rescue services, including the French Fire-Fighting Federation, municipalities and counties, and infrastructure owners (Seveso plants, transportation services), that are all Cluster members. SMEs represent 60% of this network. That specificity makes SAFE Cluster the network which gets together suppliers and customers of integrated security solutions and therefore, the cluster where new business models are invented.

We provide innovative, world-leading, bespoke AI-enabled services for the disruption of the agri-food value chain. We leverage a wide range of technical and methodological expertise in the area of Big Data Analytics towards providing services that morph data into meaningful answers.

The Security Network Munich (Sicherheitsnetzwerk München) is an association of leading players, organisations and research institutes in the field of information and cybersecurity in the greater Munich area.

Steinbeis 2i GmbH was founded in 2016 as a subsidiary of Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ), which is part of Steinbeis Innovation gGmbH and has offices in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Steinbeis 2i concentrates on the topics of innovation and internationalization, and it is supported by the more than 25 years of experience offered by Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum.

Symag, a BNPP PF subsidiary, offers retail chains pioneering, high-performance and scalable solutions in the fields of customer engagement, promotion, point of sales and POS equipment. To that end Symag relies on the expertise and skills of its Consulting and Projects centre, on field and helpdesk services but also on its long-time knowledge of retail issues. Symag's research and development center, based in Sophia Antipolis, is attentive to the technological and behavioral changes related to the world of customer relationship, connected commerce and services. The strength of our solutions comes from an independent approach to hardware and software solutions while promoting the interconnection and provision of business services.

Techstars Smart Mobility Accelerator is an acceleration programme for startups that aims to attract the best entrepreneurial projects to Turin, from all over the world, oriented towards the mobility of the future.

The TIM WCAP is Telecom Italia's open innovation programme. TIM WCAP's mission is to find and integrate, on TIM's digital platforms, innovative solutions from the world of start-ups and SMEs, in line with TIM's business needs, in order to innovate the company's product portfolio and solutions. In fulfilling its mission, TIM WCAP relies on TIM's partnerships with big international ICT companies. It collaborates with the top players in innovation, like universities, businesses, organisations, incubators and accelerators.

Triglav Group is the leading insurance-financial group in Slovenia and in the Adria region and one of the leading groups in South-East Europe. Zavarovalnica Triglav, the controlling company of Triglav Group operates together with its subsidiaries and associated companies on seven markets and in six countries. The key market of the Triglav Group is South-East Europe, where it ranks among the largest insurance/financial groups. Triglav Insurance Serbia is part of the Triglav Group. Strategic activities revolve around Insurance and Asset Management.

TWI Hellas develops artificial intelligence and intelligent automation that can help people and machines across different industries perform better, smarter, faster and more safely. We capitalise on today’s influx of industrial data, abundant sensors, plummeting computing costs and unprecedented connectivity by finding the optimum balance between hard science and technology-focused creativity, to deliver software and hardware that are easy and safe to use.

Working with very early stage software-based ideas. We move faster by bringing together all the vital components that contribute to an idea’s success; software knowledge, business knowledge, capital, and a valuable network of partners. We are the ultimate all-you-need destination to turn a software-based idea into a business.

We are a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology startups. We provide financing and hands-on development support through our pre-seed and seed-stage investments. We believe great founders and startups come from all walks of life. They just have three things in common: Tech, Talent, and Resolve.

MONACO FOUNDRY has identified a gap in the market between investors that bring money and incubators/accelerators that can primarily only support short programs AND the early/mid stage companies that need advice and the real know how to tackle international markets. We are the unique link and solution between the two. Our team is comprised of remarkable Serial Entrepreneurs, former Senior Government Advisors and Fortune 500 Executives, who will actively help you build and accelerate your company.

South Central Ventures (SCV) is focused on tech companies in the Balkans. The fund is dedicated primarily to early-stage and growth investments. Within the fund’s ‘seed pocket’, reserved for investments of up to €100 000 per company. The majority of the fund is allocated for early-stage and growth investments of up to €3 million per company. These investments are intended to fuel the international business expansion and growth of the most promising tech startups that can show traction and prove their potential to “make it big”. The investment focus is on early-stage, high growth companies with excellent management teams.

UniFund aims to ignite entrepreneurship and leverage the hidden potential that exists in the Greek Universities, R&D and Tech Space, by focusing on people and team development, implementation of successful go-to-market strategies and helping build the foundations of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.