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surely a very active period for Greek tech communities counting 13 meetups in the next days from Athens to Thessaloniki, Patras, and Palo Alto! full list with RSVP links tomorrow on startuppirate(dot)com

we sat down with Manos Koukoumidis, who previously led efforts for Google's LLMs before starting Oumi, to discuss why the future of AI is open source and creating an open, collaborative platform for frontier AI research startuppirate.com/p/the-path-for…

wow! Reflection AI co-founded by Ioannis Antonoglou launches with $130 million in funding from Sequoia, CRV, and Lightspeed to build superintelligent autonomous systems siliconangle.com/2025/03/07/sup…

Fresh list of 100 startups hiring in Greece with over 400 job openings Let me know if i'm missing any opp startuppirate.gr/jobs

Last mile delivery & route optimization software, Lastmily, raises €1m from UniFund startupper.gr/deals/181697/l…

the history of highly capable chip design teams in Greece goes back decades with acquisitions from some of the largest semiconductor companies globally fantastic to see Nvidia setting up shop

Starting from Greece in the middle of the economic crisis, growing lean throughout the years, and becoming a global industry leader with 60,000 customers This is the story of Yodeck

From DeepMind's founding engineer to raising $130M to build superintelligence A fascinating look into the past and future of frontier AI with Ioannis Antonoglou next week on the newsletter Not to be missed sub: startuppirate(dot)com

Investing platform Wealthyhood, founded by Alexandros Christodoulakis and Konstantinos Faliagkas, announced a €3.6 million Seed round newmoney.gr/roh/palmos-oik…

Proptech startup theprosperty raises €5.5m led by Eurobank therecursive.com/greek-proptech…

Startup Pirate turns 5 and couldn't find a better excuse to celebrate entrepreneurs who keep venturing into uncharted territories, regardless of past successes or failures Startup. Exit. Repeat. Friday AM on startuppirate(dot)com

.Endor Labs raises $93M Series B from top investors like DFJ Growth, Lightspeed, Coatue, and others to secure AI-generated code from vulnerabilities techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/end…

Business intelligence platform Astrato Analytics raises $5m led by Big Pi Ventures techfundingnews.com/astrato-lands-…

Introducing Marathon Fund III with €75m to back ambitious founders building the future. Excited to be stepping up as a Partner to continue building Marathon together with George Tziralis and @PanosJee. They both made a big bet on me five years ago. I had just started Startup Pirate,

The tech industry has to get its soul back as a pirate haven, not a navy port More than ever, we need Jack Sparrows running around uncharted waters, with small trusted crews, an unreasonable desire for gold and having a great time And here I am, with a small bag of gold looking

Proptech startup Protio raises 1m EUR by Loggerhead Ventures, Lars Rasmussen, Genesis Ventures and other investors to digitize and decarbonize real estate in Greece startupper.gr/deals/194900/p…

Insight Partners-backed Sedna acquires CompassAir, an Athens-based provider of maritime workflow solutions sedna.com/resources/sedn…

Embracing Uncertainty Uncertainty as the moat 🖊️ ⁦Startup Pirate⁩ startuppirate.com/p/embracing-un…

w/ Anastasios Andronidis we delved into a new kind of digital infrastructure to verify humans in the age of AI. How can you distinguish real individuals from bots and AI agents? also discussed how AI is changing the game for young engineers and approaching internships as an employer

2025 H1 Greek-Founded Startup Figures are in! 59 new funding announcements totalling over $1.8 billion, while 8 companies got acquired. In the first half of the year, startups with operations in Greece raised 36 rounds totalling over $100m, 28 of which were at Seed stage.