PANATHĒNEA at Athens Innovation Summit | The Community Series #2
PANATHĒNEA at Athens Innovation Summit | The Community Series #2
Please join us 19:30 on Thursday September 11th to hear seed-stage investment pitches from four Panathēnea-related startups! We will begin the evening with a short presentation from the Panathēnea team debriefing this year’s inaugural festival and laying out our ambitious plans for 2026.
Event location will be available after approval.
Agenda:
19:30-20:00: Arrival
20:00-20:30: Panathēnea 2025 debrief and discussion about Panathēnea Festival 2026
20:30-22:00: Founders Pitching (Find details below)
22:00-later: Networking and discussion
1) Panathēneans Kesha and Alan will pitch their startup Smash, a new community platform where music creators connect and create music on their own terms. The startup is considering building a dev team in Athens with our enthusiastic help.
2) Greek-American Jean-Paul and his Finnish co-founder Milja will pitch their young gaming and media studio Harakka. Harakka is backed by Panathēnea mentor and Angry Birds cofounder Peter Vesterbacka, and their upcoming game Tunes will likely feature music from Panathēneans Kesha and Marina Satti. The founders intend to spend 50% of their time in Greece and build a dev team here.
3) Panathēnea mentor and Slush cofounder Peter Vesterbacka will pitch his Finest Future startup that aims to alleviate Europe’s birth rate crises — which is particularly severe in Greece. Finest first offers international students training in the relevant European language in their home country, and then a high school education in the corresponding European country. Today active in Finland and Estonia, Finest Future is planning to make Greece the third recipient country.
4) Thesaloniki-based Panathēnea startup competition winners Korina and Kyriakos will pitch their startup Agro-U, which matches agricultural workers with farms and offers smart mobile solutions to legal paper work and payments.