I’m excited to serve as the executive director of the Openfund, a seed venture capital fund attempting to transform local potential into global success.
Launched in June 2009, the Openfund looks for stellar teams and innovative ideas in and around software, mobile and the web, providing hands-on mentoring on all things start-up, access to a vast array of contacts and resources, next to a small amount of money to start with. In essence, the Openfund offers everything a team of ambitious entrepreneurs needs to quit everything else, focus just on their skills, team and idea and properly start-up.
Also, among other roles, I feel really honored to have contributed in the tech start-up community of Greece, serving as a principal organizer of Open Coffee meetings in Athens.
The greek Open Coffee movement, started in June 2007 and recently set up as a non profit organization, has till today organized more than 50 meetings in 6 cities around Greece, hosting more than 150 presentations and spreading the word of entrepreneurship into the hundreds of people participated in its open events. You may find out more at the original blog (strictly english posts are here).