Convibo is an online grocery delivery service that offers 1-hour delivery. It was founded in 2013 and has grown 30% month over month. Convibo picks orders directly from stores like Marks & Spencer, Whole Foods, Waitrose, and Tesco, avoiding the need for warehouses and inventory. Shoppers pick orders which are then delivered by contracted drivers using the Convibo mobile app and proprietary backend systems.
This document discusses the journey of Douleutaras.gr, an online marketplace that connects customers with local professionals for various services. It started in 2015 to address the need for reliable and reasonably priced professional services that could be found quickly online. While initial traction was good, fulfillment rates were low. After iterating the platform and growing their supply of professionals, revenues and user numbers increased significantly over the following years. The company now services multiple professional verticals across Greece and aims to continue its international expansion.
This document outlines a company's mission to revolutionize the hatchery egg business by detecting non-fertile eggs on day zero using their low-cost Wave solution. Currently over 1.3 billion infertile eggs are incubated each year in the US alone, costing hatcheries $0.5 per egg. Competing technologies cannot check enough eggs quickly enough or accurately enough on day zero, but the company's beta Eggwave product can check 8,000 eggs per hour with 90-94% accuracy.
This document summarizes SourceLair, a web development tool that allows for unified and frictionless development. It also introduces Stolos, a new product that provides remote development environments for teams. Stolos runs applications in Docker containers, synchronizes code in real-time, and makes work accessible via shareable URLs. The document discusses mistakes made in the company such as spending funding on payroll and being a feature factory. It also outlines wins like making products paid-only and open-sourcing their terminal software.
The document introduces CityCrop, a hydroponic device that allows people living in cities to grow fresh vegetables with minimal time and space. CityCrop uses a 3-stage process to plant, select, and grow microgreens, leafy greens, herbs, and berries indoors. Users purchase the main device and modules to produce salad ingredients in just one month. The company's team has engineering and agriculture expertise. CityCrop has generated over €35,000 in pre-order sales and seeks funding to expand manufacturing and marketing to reach €1 million in annual recurring revenue within a year.
The document describes Care Across, a personalized digital health service for cancer patients. It provides concise summaries of medical information, connects patients to clinical trials, and offers an anonymous online community. Care Across uses artificial intelligence to develop individualized nutrition, exercise, and wellbeing plans based on a patient's diagnoses, treatments, health data, and concerns. The service aims to address common issues cancer patients face like feeling isolated, information overload, and lifestyle challenges. Care Across partners with pharmaceutical companies for clinical trial recruitment and patient support programs to improve outcomes and evidence-based care.
This document introduces Wildrobe, an online marketplace for buying and selling second-hand branded fashion items. It discusses the problem of unused clothing taking up space in closets and losing value. Wildrobe's mission is to make fashion more sustainable by connecting people's wardrobes. The business model involves users selling pre-owned items on the site and Wildrobe taking a 20% commission on completed sales. Metrics provided show traction with the Greek female target market and the large potential size of the global resale fashion market.
Convibo is an online grocery delivery service that offers 1-hour delivery. It was founded in 2013 and has grown 30% month over month. Convibo picks orders directly from stores like Marks & Spencer, Whole Foods, Waitrose, and Tesco, avoiding the need for warehouses and inventory. Shoppers pick orders which are then delivered by contracted drivers using the Convibo mobile app and proprietary backend systems.
This document discusses the journey of Douleutaras.gr, an online marketplace that connects customers with local professionals for various services. It started in 2015 to address the need for reliable and reasonably priced professional services that could be found quickly online. While initial traction was good, fulfillment rates were low. After iterating the platform and growing their supply of professionals, revenues and user numbers increased significantly over the following years. The company now services multiple professional verticals across Greece and aims to continue its international expansion.
This document outlines a company's mission to revolutionize the hatchery egg business by detecting non-fertile eggs on day zero using their low-cost Wave solution. Currently over 1.3 billion infertile eggs are incubated each year in the US alone, costing hatcheries $0.5 per egg. Competing technologies cannot check enough eggs quickly enough or accurately enough on day zero, but the company's beta Eggwave product can check 8,000 eggs per hour with 90-94% accuracy.
This document summarizes SourceLair, a web development tool that allows for unified and frictionless development. It also introduces Stolos, a new product that provides remote development environments for teams. Stolos runs applications in Docker containers, synchronizes code in real-time, and makes work accessible via shareable URLs. The document discusses mistakes made in the company such as spending funding on payroll and being a feature factory. It also outlines wins like making products paid-only and open-sourcing their terminal software.
The document introduces CityCrop, a hydroponic device that allows people living in cities to grow fresh vegetables with minimal time and space. CityCrop uses a 3-stage process to plant, select, and grow microgreens, leafy greens, herbs, and berries indoors. Users purchase the main device and modules to produce salad ingredients in just one month. The company's team has engineering and agriculture expertise. CityCrop has generated over €35,000 in pre-order sales and seeks funding to expand manufacturing and marketing to reach €1 million in annual recurring revenue within a year.
The document describes Care Across, a personalized digital health service for cancer patients. It provides concise summaries of medical information, connects patients to clinical trials, and offers an anonymous online community. Care Across uses artificial intelligence to develop individualized nutrition, exercise, and wellbeing plans based on a patient's diagnoses, treatments, health data, and concerns. The service aims to address common issues cancer patients face like feeling isolated, information overload, and lifestyle challenges. Care Across partners with pharmaceutical companies for clinical trial recruitment and patient support programs to improve outcomes and evidence-based care.
This document introduces Wildrobe, an online marketplace for buying and selling second-hand branded fashion items. It discusses the problem of unused clothing taking up space in closets and losing value. Wildrobe's mission is to make fashion more sustainable by connecting people's wardrobes. The business model involves users selling pre-owned items on the site and Wildrobe taking a 20% commission on completed sales. Metrics provided show traction with the Greek female target market and the large potential size of the global resale fashion market.
Neil the Little Explorer is an educational smart toy for children ages 3-6 that introduces kids to knowledge through wikis in an entertaining way. The toy personalizes the wikis presented based on children's interests and locations. Neil aims to help children discover the world while allowing parents to better understand their children. The creators are seeking funding and collaborators to continue developing Neil and other smart toys that blend education and fun.
This document provides an overview of Intelen, a company that develops digital platforms to help utilities engage with consumers. It discusses Intelen's vision to change how energy is understood and used, its product called DiG which provides 360 degree consumer engagement, its client base of energy utilities, and its plans for continued innovation and growth including investments in AI and blockchain. Intelen aims to become one of the largest technology companies in Greece by connecting more users and monetizing their data while pursuing energy sector disruption through applied research.
This document provides an overview of Muse Robotics, a startup that aims to enable robot creators. It introduces the founders and their backgrounds/roles. It then discusses the company's story so far, including developing an MVP and gaining paying customers. The document also analyzes the industrial robot market landscape and trends, identifying opportunities around collaborative robots. It notes challenges hardware startups face around development cycles and market needs. The conclusion outlines Muse's status and next steps in sales growth and safety certifications.
OpenCoffee is a communication platform for financial traders created by GEORGE LIPORDEZIS and KRIS LEONIDOU. The platform allows traders to chat, discuss the market, and get premium educational content. It provides financial widgets, low latency video/screen sharing, and payment processing integrated within private and paid chatrooms. Since its beta launch in January 2017, the platform has registered users from 126 countries, processed over $240k in payments, and projects $400k in annual recurring revenue with a growing monthly user base and new opportunities in cryptocurrency trading and signals. The founders aim to have 10 million users within the next 3 years and expand with new offices in New York and Limassol while keeping
Agile Agriculture Technologies at Open Coffee Athens LXXXIXOpen Coffee Greece
The document discusses the need to increase global food production by 70% by 2050 to support a growing population of 9.1 billion people. It proposes using precision fertilization technologies like real-time sensors on drones, planes and satellites to increase crop yields by 10%, quality by 15%, and reduce fertilizer usage by 5% based on two years of trials on 200 hectares of land. The company discussed has validated the value of its precision fertilization platform through pilots in 2017 and is now raising funds for further development with an MVP ready and interest from 10 pilot farmers and 30K in grants secured to date.
This document contains snippets of conversations between individuals discussing various topics including travel plans, career advice, business operations, and more. The document jumps between different subjects without providing full context for any one discussion.
This document describes a citizen engagement platform called Novoville that provides digital services to governments to help them better serve citizens. It aims to educate citizens on digital services, make the services high quality so citizens prefer them, and involve citizens in providing feedback. Novoville offers packages that allow governments to accept payments, communicate with citizens, and provide e-services from a centralized dashboard at a lower cost than traditional methods. The platform has experienced growth while addressing challenges of working with governments.
Η παρουσίαση του ιδρυτή της Hack The Box Χάρη Πυλαρινού στο αθηναϊκό Open Coffee.
Το βίντεο είναι διαθέσιμο εδώ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxNPGwOQlaU
Η παρουσίαση του ιδρυτή της proto.io & overflow.io Αλέξη Πιπερίδη στο αθηναϊκό Open Coffee.
Βίντεο διαθέσιμο εδώ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxNPGwOQlaU
This document provides information about an edtech company that builds learning management systems (LMS) and microlearning software. It summarizes that the company has 67 employees, 5000 active customers that are 60% in North America, $12M in annual recurring revenue. The company's products include an affordable cloud-based LMS, a microlearning solution, and an enterprise LMS. The global LMS market is expected to grow from $9.2B in 2018 to $22.4B in 2023. The company has grown from serving the Greek educational market to becoming an international enterprise focused on training software.
This document discusses lessons learned from using Geekbot, an AI assistant that helps teams by automating processes like standup meetings, retrospectives, and surveys. It summarizes responses to discussion questions, analyzes sentiment, activity levels, and topics to provide visibility into a team's progress, blockers, and overall sentiment. The API allows customers to build customized solutions to meet their specific needs. Geekbot has helped over 50,000 active users at 1,500 paid companies improve collaboration and productivity.
BibeCoffee is an IoT solution that monitors connected professional coffee machines in real-time, transforming them into smart devices. It guarantees high quality coffee is always served without compromises by ensuring proper maintenance and operation. The solution monitors key metrics like water quality, grind size, and temperature to ensure brand standards are met. It also helps reduce costs by enabling automatic reordering of supplies like coffee beans and preventing revenue loss from machine downtimes through predictive maintenance.
The document discusses a virtual reality (VR) medical training platform called ovidVR that aims to address issues with the traditional surgical training model such as high costs and limited operating room time. It details how ovidVR uses VR simulations to reduce surgical errors and training costs by allowing skills to transfer from VR to the operating room. The company seeks to commercialize its VR training platform and proprietary MAGES technology to medical schools, device companies, and other customers.
InSyBio is developing an integrated cloud platform for biomarker discovery to improve precision medicine and clinical trials. Their platform performs end-to-end biomarker analysis from raw biological data through extraction, interpretation and applications. This is more efficient than existing fragmented methods. InSyBio's biomarkers are highly accurate with small sample sizes and can reduce clinical trial costs and times. Their platform has applications in nutrition, pharma and diagnostics.
The Signal Group is a brokerage and advisory firm that had 12 employees in 2015 and has grown significantly since then. It serves ship owners, charterers, and other clients in the shipping industry. The document emphasizes that company culture and market understanding are important, and advises focusing on a few things well rather than trying to do too much.
This document discusses how aquaculture operations can benefit from using technology and data collection tools. It notes that poor data collection and analysis leads to losses, while tools that help farmers easily record data on feeding, stock conditions, health issues and other parameters can generate reports to improve performance. The summary provides an example of a large tilapia farmer in Africa who saw feed costs and production costs reduced by 40% over 4 years after implementing an aquaculture data and analytics platform, along with increased survival rates and reduced time to market. Overall, the document promotes how aquaculture intelligence solutions can optimize production and business sustainability through better data collection and analysis.
Our team has developed a solution using sensors, artificial intelligence, and an intuitive user interface to bridge the distance between ship assets and management companies, eliminate the complexity of ship machinery, and create transparency between onboard personnel and main offices. Their product monitors ship hulls using state-of-the-art technology with a low initial investment and subscription-based revenue model. They have been developing since 2016, completed a proof of concept in 2017, obtained their first customer in 2018, and partnered with Danaos Corporation in 2018, with the goal of completing monitoring of all vessel assets.
Η Παρουσίαση των: Θάλεια Μισαηλίδου, Αλεξία Παναγοπούλου, Elsa Sahnas, Γιάννη Τσακατάνη και Ελίνας Τσαδάρη απο το Greek Finance Network στο Open Coffee #99
Digital signage uses technologies like LCD, LED, and projection to display content and information. The global digital signage market was worth $23.76 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow 8.18% annually. Compared to the global software as a service (SaaS) market, digital signage is about 18% the size. Yodeck is a cloud-based digital signage platform that allows users to easily create content, schedules, and layouts and display them on screens connected to Yodeck players. Since launching in 2015, Yodeck has grown to over 1,400 customers displaying content on over 2,800 screens across 40+ countries.
- Buran Venture Capital has raised USD106m from 56 limited partners and focuses on early stage Series A investments in tech companies across Central and Eastern Europe.
- They have made 20 initial investments and 34 follow-on investments, with 5 exits so far.
- Their investment team consists of 12 professionals with experience in investment banking, private equity, and founding tech companies.
Neil the Little Explorer is an educational smart toy for children ages 3-6 that introduces kids to knowledge through wikis in an entertaining way. The toy personalizes the wikis presented based on children's interests and locations. Neil aims to help children discover the world while allowing parents to better understand their children. The creators are seeking funding and collaborators to continue developing Neil and other smart toys that blend education and fun.
This document provides an overview of Intelen, a company that develops digital platforms to help utilities engage with consumers. It discusses Intelen's vision to change how energy is understood and used, its product called DiG which provides 360 degree consumer engagement, its client base of energy utilities, and its plans for continued innovation and growth including investments in AI and blockchain. Intelen aims to become one of the largest technology companies in Greece by connecting more users and monetizing their data while pursuing energy sector disruption through applied research.
This document provides an overview of Muse Robotics, a startup that aims to enable robot creators. It introduces the founders and their backgrounds/roles. It then discusses the company's story so far, including developing an MVP and gaining paying customers. The document also analyzes the industrial robot market landscape and trends, identifying opportunities around collaborative robots. It notes challenges hardware startups face around development cycles and market needs. The conclusion outlines Muse's status and next steps in sales growth and safety certifications.
OpenCoffee is a communication platform for financial traders created by GEORGE LIPORDEZIS and KRIS LEONIDOU. The platform allows traders to chat, discuss the market, and get premium educational content. It provides financial widgets, low latency video/screen sharing, and payment processing integrated within private and paid chatrooms. Since its beta launch in January 2017, the platform has registered users from 126 countries, processed over $240k in payments, and projects $400k in annual recurring revenue with a growing monthly user base and new opportunities in cryptocurrency trading and signals. The founders aim to have 10 million users within the next 3 years and expand with new offices in New York and Limassol while keeping
Agile Agriculture Technologies at Open Coffee Athens LXXXIXOpen Coffee Greece
The document discusses the need to increase global food production by 70% by 2050 to support a growing population of 9.1 billion people. It proposes using precision fertilization technologies like real-time sensors on drones, planes and satellites to increase crop yields by 10%, quality by 15%, and reduce fertilizer usage by 5% based on two years of trials on 200 hectares of land. The company discussed has validated the value of its precision fertilization platform through pilots in 2017 and is now raising funds for further development with an MVP ready and interest from 10 pilot farmers and 30K in grants secured to date.
This document contains snippets of conversations between individuals discussing various topics including travel plans, career advice, business operations, and more. The document jumps between different subjects without providing full context for any one discussion.
This document describes a citizen engagement platform called Novoville that provides digital services to governments to help them better serve citizens. It aims to educate citizens on digital services, make the services high quality so citizens prefer them, and involve citizens in providing feedback. Novoville offers packages that allow governments to accept payments, communicate with citizens, and provide e-services from a centralized dashboard at a lower cost than traditional methods. The platform has experienced growth while addressing challenges of working with governments.
Η παρουσίαση του ιδρυτή της Hack The Box Χάρη Πυλαρινού στο αθηναϊκό Open Coffee.
Το βίντεο είναι διαθέσιμο εδώ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxNPGwOQlaU
Η παρουσίαση του ιδρυτή της proto.io & overflow.io Αλέξη Πιπερίδη στο αθηναϊκό Open Coffee.
Βίντεο διαθέσιμο εδώ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxNPGwOQlaU
This document provides information about an edtech company that builds learning management systems (LMS) and microlearning software. It summarizes that the company has 67 employees, 5000 active customers that are 60% in North America, $12M in annual recurring revenue. The company's products include an affordable cloud-based LMS, a microlearning solution, and an enterprise LMS. The global LMS market is expected to grow from $9.2B in 2018 to $22.4B in 2023. The company has grown from serving the Greek educational market to becoming an international enterprise focused on training software.
This document discusses lessons learned from using Geekbot, an AI assistant that helps teams by automating processes like standup meetings, retrospectives, and surveys. It summarizes responses to discussion questions, analyzes sentiment, activity levels, and topics to provide visibility into a team's progress, blockers, and overall sentiment. The API allows customers to build customized solutions to meet their specific needs. Geekbot has helped over 50,000 active users at 1,500 paid companies improve collaboration and productivity.
BibeCoffee is an IoT solution that monitors connected professional coffee machines in real-time, transforming them into smart devices. It guarantees high quality coffee is always served without compromises by ensuring proper maintenance and operation. The solution monitors key metrics like water quality, grind size, and temperature to ensure brand standards are met. It also helps reduce costs by enabling automatic reordering of supplies like coffee beans and preventing revenue loss from machine downtimes through predictive maintenance.
The document discusses a virtual reality (VR) medical training platform called ovidVR that aims to address issues with the traditional surgical training model such as high costs and limited operating room time. It details how ovidVR uses VR simulations to reduce surgical errors and training costs by allowing skills to transfer from VR to the operating room. The company seeks to commercialize its VR training platform and proprietary MAGES technology to medical schools, device companies, and other customers.
InSyBio is developing an integrated cloud platform for biomarker discovery to improve precision medicine and clinical trials. Their platform performs end-to-end biomarker analysis from raw biological data through extraction, interpretation and applications. This is more efficient than existing fragmented methods. InSyBio's biomarkers are highly accurate with small sample sizes and can reduce clinical trial costs and times. Their platform has applications in nutrition, pharma and diagnostics.
The Signal Group is a brokerage and advisory firm that had 12 employees in 2015 and has grown significantly since then. It serves ship owners, charterers, and other clients in the shipping industry. The document emphasizes that company culture and market understanding are important, and advises focusing on a few things well rather than trying to do too much.
This document discusses how aquaculture operations can benefit from using technology and data collection tools. It notes that poor data collection and analysis leads to losses, while tools that help farmers easily record data on feeding, stock conditions, health issues and other parameters can generate reports to improve performance. The summary provides an example of a large tilapia farmer in Africa who saw feed costs and production costs reduced by 40% over 4 years after implementing an aquaculture data and analytics platform, along with increased survival rates and reduced time to market. Overall, the document promotes how aquaculture intelligence solutions can optimize production and business sustainability through better data collection and analysis.
Our team has developed a solution using sensors, artificial intelligence, and an intuitive user interface to bridge the distance between ship assets and management companies, eliminate the complexity of ship machinery, and create transparency between onboard personnel and main offices. Their product monitors ship hulls using state-of-the-art technology with a low initial investment and subscription-based revenue model. They have been developing since 2016, completed a proof of concept in 2017, obtained their first customer in 2018, and partnered with Danaos Corporation in 2018, with the goal of completing monitoring of all vessel assets.
Η Παρουσίαση των: Θάλεια Μισαηλίδου, Αλεξία Παναγοπούλου, Elsa Sahnas, Γιάννη Τσακατάνη και Ελίνας Τσαδάρη απο το Greek Finance Network στο Open Coffee #99
Digital signage uses technologies like LCD, LED, and projection to display content and information. The global digital signage market was worth $23.76 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow 8.18% annually. Compared to the global software as a service (SaaS) market, digital signage is about 18% the size. Yodeck is a cloud-based digital signage platform that allows users to easily create content, schedules, and layouts and display them on screens connected to Yodeck players. Since launching in 2015, Yodeck has grown to over 1,400 customers displaying content on over 2,800 screens across 40+ countries.
- Buran Venture Capital has raised USD106m from 56 limited partners and focuses on early stage Series A investments in tech companies across Central and Eastern Europe.
- They have made 20 initial investments and 34 follow-on investments, with 5 exits so far.
- Their investment team consists of 12 professionals with experience in investment banking, private equity, and founding tech companies.
This document discusses different types of academies including a data science academy, culinary research and education academy, and an unraveled academy. It mentions some Greek words and cautions against an overengineering "build it and they will come" mentality. Key metrics for evaluating results are mentioned such as CAC, CLTV, CAC/CLTV, ARPU, and churn. An iterative process of opportunity, hypothesis, measure, build, and evaluate results is recommended.
MyJobNow is a mobile job listing marketplace that helps small Greek businesses fill high-turnover positions like retail and food service. It allows employers to easily post jobs near their location and communicate with candidates through the app. Since launching in May 2018, MyJobNow has grown to over 45,000 users and seen more than 120,000 applications and 30,000 candidate shortlists. The startup has also achieved over 30% repeat customer usage and partnered with major brands.
The document discusses a company called Stasher that provides bag storage lockers in over 50 cities across Europe and plans to expand to more cities globally. Stasher allows customers to store their bags at venues that have policies against bringing bags in. The company has received $1.1 million in funding so far and has stored over 75,000 bags across its 400+ storage locations.