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Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou – Found.ation – Greece

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Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou - Found.ation - Greece

Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou
CEO & Co-Founder, Found.ation
Greece 

For a 26 year-old, Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou has been one extremely busy bee.  This web and tech entrepreneur is known as the Founder and Curator of TEDxAthens, Co-Founder of Nest Media, and Co-Founder of Found.ation, a company dedicated to helping startups grow.

More precisely, Found.ation is a co-working space that offers a lot more than your average office facilities and services.  Its aim is to accommodate entrepreneurs in an enhanced environment and encourage tech entrepreneurship in Greece through proper training, networking opportunities, legal consultancy, and opening doors to investors.

Through Found.ation’s educational platform, young startup owners develop their skills in essential workshops related to the worlds of tech and business marketing.

The space provides an opportunity for young tech entrepreneurs to network and collaborate with professionals in various fields. Together, they exchange ideas, opinions, receive and provide help, and develop partnerships.

The company has been notably involved with projects such as “Women and girls go digital”, an initiative launched in April 2014 which aims at diversifying the tech ecosystem by getting more and more women to embrace digital jobs.

Found.ation is working hard to give young entrepreneurs an affordable solution that allows them to convert their ideas into actions. This reflects Dimitris’ way of working and his dedication to the growth and enhancement of the startup community at large.

Mike Butcher – TechCrunch – UK

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Mike Butcher Editor at Large, TechCrunch, UK

Editor at Large, TechCrunch
CEO, TechHub
United Kingdom

Best known as TechCrunch’s “Editor-at-large”, Mike Butcher is nothing short of a legend in the tech and startup world. From ranking as one of the Top 50 influential Britons in technology, to appearing three times in Wired UK’s Top 100 (2011, 2012, 2014), Butcher’s list of achievements could be published as a book on its own.  He still writes extensively about startups, venture capital, technology trends and emerging markets, but  he is now more active than ever thanks to his latest company: TechHub.

It is a global dynamic enterprise that creates spaces around the world for tech entrepreneurs to increase their chances of success. Using a unique approach, TechHub gathers these newcomers in high-end offices and provides them with “the resources of a global company, the energy and shared knowledge of a tech conference and the buzz of a social networking event rolled into one!” With already six hubs from London to India, the company’s open network puts startups  in touch with entrepreneurs, angels, and mentors from all over the world.

TechHub takes its concept even further by granting members free tickets to its events, where they get to learn from some of the most successful founders, meet and pitch investors, find interns… Mike’s company even leverages its own social media network, blog and newsletter to promote its partner startups .

With TechHub, Mike proves once again his dedication to emerging companies and his will to lend a helping hand. Butcher has often been personally involved with similar endeavors in the past 18 years. Aside from launching or re-launching numerous media web sites, he has founded and/or served on various boards such as the steering committee of Coadec, the Coalition for a Digital Economy, and the Smart London Board.