Intelligencia.ai
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Workable
Workable is-all-in-one recruiting software, trusted by over 6000 companies to streamline their hiring. From sourcing candidates to providing a structured hiring and interview process, Workable provides tools to manage multiple hiring pipelines. Transparent communication, organized candidate profiles, structured interviews and a full reporting suit give hiring teams the information they need to make the best chioce.
With customers like IBM, Deliveroo, RyanAir, Porsche and Basecamp it’s a preferred recruiting tool for SMBs and growing organisations. Based in Athens and Boston, Workable has a growing team of 130 and has raised a total of $34m of investment from Openfund, 83North and Balderton.
Marco Veremis was the first investor in Workable, while Openfund was the second and participated in subsequent fundraising events.
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Upstream
With over 160.000 successful mobile monetization campaigns and over 600.000 customers reached upstream is one of the leaders in its field.
Upstream is a leading mobile internet services provider focusing in high growth markets. Its platform provides 1.2 billion people with affordable and secure access to digital services. In collaboration with 60+ mobile operators, across 45+ countries, it is leveraging their unique assets to boost and create new revenue streams in the data era. In 2017 alone, over 100 million users made digital purchases worth more than $210 million.
Marco was co-founder and CEO before stepping in the position of chairman and joining Big Pi as Partner.
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Beat
Formerly known as TaxiBeat allow passengers to see the exact location of nearby taxis, to hail one with the touch of a button. As a true marketplace, Beat allows passengers and drivers to leave feedback about their experience.
Founded in 2011, was first financed by Openfund. Beat was acquired by Daimler-Benz in 2017 with a view to enrich their MyTaxi offerings and expand into markets more suitable to Beat’s business model. Beat is the fastest growing P2P ridesharing provider in South America.
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Vidyo
Initially founded as Layered Media, Vidyo was founded in 2005 and until 2018 has raised over $100m. It’s technological assets have been productized in the form of standalone appliances, cloud offerings and even power solutions such as Google Hangouts and Nintendo Wii U’s video-chat.
Alex Eleftheriadis co-founded the company and still holds the position of Chief Scientist.
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QCell
QCELL innovates in spectral imaging. Particularly the company has invented and developed the first ever 5MP-video spectral camera, operating on mobile phones and tablets: the inSPECT camera. In company’s products, the real time snapshot spectral imaging is combined with embedded Artificial Intelligence algorithms to enable the display of spectral, thematic and diagnostic maps at video rates! QCELL further advances the unique capabilities of hyperspectral imaging, while, at the same time, converting this high-end, tabletop technology to a handheld device, thus opening new markets. Based on the intelligent spectroscopy (inSPECT) camera platform, the company offers a product family with unique features that are intended to address unmet market needs.
Openfund was the first investor in the company.
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Hellas Direct
Hellas Direct is part of a new wave of what’s known as insurtech companies. Globally and in Greece, the insurance industry is dominated by traditional brokerage systems. Insurtech companies aim to revolutionize the industry by using technology to bring the paper-heavy sector into the digital age. Hellas Direct aims to increase insurance ownership in Greece and bring further transparency and fairness, by eliminating commissions and hidden fees.
Hellas Direct employs a direct-to-consumer distribution model, offering competitive products at significantly lower prices and eliminating commissions. IFC’s investment will help the company extend its footprint in the Greek insurance market, broaden its offerings of innovative, by-the-day micro insurance products, and accelerate its international expansion across emerging markets, such as Romania and Turkey.
Marco Veremis is an angel investor in the company.
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Persado
Persado is the Marketing Language Cloud; AI generated language that resonates the most with any audience, segment or individual. Imagine having a data scientist and a copywriter for each person in your audience; you get the language that performs and the analytics explaining why, resulting in more business and unseen insights.
Marco Veremis is an angel investor in the company.
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Snox
Snox has been developing Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) technology and guidance systems, catering to small and big players in mainly automotive and aerospace industries. After its acquisition by Grenzebach, Snox has created award-winning new logistic robots and concepts.
Bruno Bolsens was co-founder and CTO at the company before moving to oversee the integration of the Snox AGV technology within the Grenzebach Group.
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Welcome
Welcome acts like your personal travel concierge covering all your in-destination requests starting from the very first one, the pickup from the airport.
After the initial pickup order Welcome introduces products and services (sim card, prepaid bank card, museum tickets etc) tailored to the needs of the specific traveler which are delivered conveniently right at the exit gate.
Welcome stays in touch also during the trip through the Welcome app helping the traveler get tips, recommendations and easily perform actions like booking restaurants and theater shows.
Openfund was the first investor in the company.
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Balena
Previously known as Resin.io, Balena.io provides infrastructure solutions for IoT makers. Most notably balenaCloud provides fleet owners with simple to use tools enabling them to deploy, update, and maintain code running on remote devices.
Balena.io are also the makers of highly popular open source tools balenaOS, balenaEngine and balenaEtcher.
The latest addition to the family is balenaFin, a very powerful hardware board catering to IoT system makers.
Openfund along with DFJ were the first investors in the company.
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Pockee
Pockee is a unique mobile coupon platform that brings together FMCG brands with retailers, eventually enabling consumers to get real discounts on their everyday grocery shopping, all on their mobile phone, not having to print or collect paper coupons. The platform provides to brands & retailers the tools to connect with their consumers in the critical moments of truth (from zero to first to second moment of truth), where the brand & retailer preference choices are made.
Openfund was the first investor in Pockee.
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allcancode
Initially a game development tool, All Can Code has evolved into a next-generation coding platform simple enough to be used even as a teaching instrument.
Allcancode’s platform is a professional tool that enables developers & designers to collaborate in the same workspace, simplifying all steps from design to delivery.
This simplification springs from Less-Code, a concept that aims to minimize the amount of traditional hand-coding needed to build apps & web pages. The reduction is achieved through a visual editor, front & back automation and ready-to-use components throughout all stages of production, from design to delivery. Unlike No-Code / Low-Code platforms, Less-Code doesn’t compromise custom programming capabilities and allows the creation of all kinds of web & mobile applications.
In 2016 the platform reached >1m children around the world.
Alex Eleftheriadis is an angel investor in the company.
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100mentors
100Mentors is a marketplace of mentoring services aimed at individual students that need guidance with career orientation and progress towards getting accepted in a high-quality university.
It also works as marketplace for motivation speeches by influential mentors, allowing schools to provide role models for their students.
Today more than 22,000 students in 120 international & private/state schools across 17 countries use 100mentors to engage their students into designing their own learning journeys through live, interactive class video.
Openfund was the first investor in the company.
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Fieldscale
Electromagnetic simulation is among the most demanding software processes today. With uses ranging from touch screens to chip design to power transmission design, simulation is critical for reducing cost and time-to-market cycles. At the same time, state-of-the-art solutions are limiting themselves to previous generation algorithms and infrastructure.
Fieldscale brings simulation tasks to the cloud era. Using new, scalable implementations of classic algorithms it is able to parallelize to a level that was previously unattainable. This results to speed increases of 10x or more while benefitting from reduced costs.
Openfund was the first investor in the company.
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