WeatherXM Deploys 2,270 Stations, IRIS & efood Hit Milestones, Golden Visa Updates

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Weekly Roundup

• 12 Greek Artificial Intelligence Startups You Should Know, by Startupper MAG.

• Greek Startups to Benefit from Major Changes to the Golden Visa Program.

• AEGEAN Group Announces a €25 Million Investment in Volotea, a leading low-cost carrier based in Barcelona, Spain.

• WeatherXM to Deploy 2,270 Weather Stations Across the Global South.

• #IRIS P2P Payments, powered by DIAS, has reached a major milestone of over 3 million registered users.

• Hellas Direct is listed among CB Insights’ annual 'Insurtech 50,' which recognizes the 50 most promising private insurtech companies in the world.

• Skroutz Online Shopping Trends of Consumers During Summer Sales 2024.

• Elevate Greece will support the participation of 20 start-ups at the 88th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) from September 7 to 15, 2024.

• efood reached a major milestone of 2.6 million active users in the first half of 2024.

• A Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Kosovo Chamber of Commerce.

Opportunity Roundup

Ecosystem:

• Applications for the 10th Circle of the #HIGGS Incubator Program are now open.

• Express your Interest to join the 6th Cohort of DayOne by Genesis Ventures: A 6-week founder program for startups seeking their first institutional investment and aiming to scale globally. Apply by September 27.

• Join the Women's Business Team Innovation Competition with up to €5,000 in cash prizes, organized by the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (E.B.E.A.) in collaboration with the Athens Start-up Business Incubator (TH.E.A.). Apply by September 11.

• Join the Web3Tour Programme to accelerate your tourism business with cutting-edge Web 3.0 innovations. Apply by September 27.

Jobs

• Check out this weeks hot tech job opportunities across various industries, curated by Code.Hub.

• iOS Developer at Skroutz.

• Executive Assistant to Managing Director at Startup Greece.

• Call Center Representative and Claims Handler at Hellas Direct.

• Linux Edge Systems Engineer at SMPnet.

Events

• AI and Beers at the Alexander Innovation Zone, Thessaloniki, on September 9.

• Big Pi Ventures Taratsa Drinks: Join us for a casual evening of drinks, pizza, and networking on September 10.

• Breakfast with Personal Branding Experts, September 10.

• First Grafana and Friends Athens Meetup, September 11.

• GenAI for Software Developers - The 2nd Wave: Event #1 - GitHub and Azure: Better Together, September 11.

• 1st XR Projects Cluster Webinar: The Ultimate Fusion of Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence, September 12.

• "The DNA of Leadership," exclusively designed for senior-level alumni of Alba Graduate Business School, September 12.

• GWiS 2nd Interdisciplinary She STEMs Symposium Highlighting Greek and Cypriot Women Scientists, September 14-15.

• Fortinet Security Day Greece 2024, September 16.

• AI & Ethics: Developments and Challenges from a Legal, Ethical, and Technical Perspective, September 19.

Things Worth Reading, Listening and Watching

• Read: Overview of EU framework on AI by Eugenie Descour at AI4CYBER.

• Read: Understanding Agriculture: History, Importance, and Types by Wikifarmer.

• Interview: Innovative Greeks with Costas Theodoropoulos, CEO and Co-founder of Rething.

• Interview: Yannis Masoutis: For a purely Greek company, success in Greece is a one-way street by Dimitris Pefanis- CNN Greece.

• Read: L-Stone Capital announced a $1.5M investment in Zenus for developing facial analysis technology.

• Read: Building a High-Performance Culture with Chief Talent Officers by N2Growth Global.

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