Athens, Greece · Startup Augmenta is an Athens-founded agriculture technology company that developed a real-time, camera- and AI-based variable rate application (VRA) hardware platform for farming. Its multispectral camera system retrofits onto existing agricultural machinery such as tractors, sprayers and spreaders, processing field conditions on the fly to automatically apply the optimal amount of inputs. The aim is to increase yields and reduce unnecessary chemical and fertiliser usage. In March 2023 Augmenta was acquired by CNH Industrial for $110 million and integrated into CNH's precision-technology portfolio, while retaining operations in Greece and the US.
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Athens, Greece · Startup Blueground is an Athens-founded proptech company launched in 2013 by Alexandros Chatzieleftheriou that leases, furnishes, and rents apartments for mid-to-long-term stays of one month or more. The company operates in over 30 cities worldwide including New York, London, Paris, Dubai, and Athens, targeting business travelers, relocating professionals, and remote workers who want hotel-like convenience with the space of an apartment. Blueground has raised over $310 million from investors including WestCap, Eurazeo, and VentureFriends. It is Greece's most prominent venture-backed startup and a leading European alternative to traditional corporate housing.
Startup Growth PropTechReal EstateTravelHospitality
Volos, Greece · Startup Develops Internet-of-Crops IoT sensors and AI analytics for post-harvest crop quality monitoring, pest management and food-safety compliance across the agricultural supply chain. Founded 2016.
Startup Series A FoodTechAIClimate Tech
Athens, Greece · Startup Maritime AI company building vessel-performance optimization and semi-autonomous shipping software (Cassandra, Pythia) to cut fuel use and emissions. Founded 2017, acquired by Japan's Nabtesco in 2023.
Startup Growth Maritime TechAIClimate Tech
Athens, Greece · Startup Epignosis is an Athens-based learning technology company behind TalentLMS, one of the most widely used cloud learning management systems for SMBs and mid-market companies. TalentLMS enables organizations to create, deliver, and track employee training programmes with minimal setup and a strong focus on usability. The company also offers eFront for enterprise and compliance-heavy training requirements. With tens of thousands of organizations using its products across 150+ countries, Epignosis is a major Greek SaaS success story that proves deep product focus in a mature category can yield global reach from a non-traditional startup geography.
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Athens, Greece · Startup Car-as-a-service subscription platform offering brand-new vehicles for a fixed monthly fee covering insurance, maintenance and road fees, with no down payment. Founded 2018, expanding across Southeast Europe.
Startup Growth MobilityMarketplaceSaaS
Athens, Greece · Startup Hack The Box is an Athens-founded cybersecurity training and upskilling platform that provides hands-on hacking labs, capture-the-flag challenges, and continuous skill assessment for security professionals and teams. The platform has built a global community of over 2 million members and serves enterprise clients including Fortune 500 companies looking to benchmark and develop their security workforce. Founded in 2017 by Haris Pylarinos, the company has raised over $55 million and represents one of Greece's fastest-growing tech companies, operating at the intersection of cybersecurity, gaming mechanics, and workforce development.
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Athens, Greece · Startup Hellas Direct is a Greek digital, full-stack insurance company offering car, motorbike and home insurance, along with related mobility services. Founded in 2011 by former consultants and bankers Alexis Pantazis and Emilios Markou, it uses a technology-driven model to provide fast online quotes and 24/7 claims handling. The company operates across Greece, Cyprus and Romania. In February 2024 it raised a €30 million Series B round led by ETF Partners to support climate-focused insurance products and further European expansion.
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Athens, Greece · Startup Skroutz is the dominant price-comparison and e-commerce marketplace in Greece, routinely ranking among the top five most-visited websites in the country and effectively serving as the discovery layer for most Greek consumer online shopping. Founded in 2005 by George Hadjigeorgiou, Vassilis Stavrou, and Panagiotis Papadimitropoulos as a simple product price-comparison site, it has since evolved into a full marketplace with integrated checkout, Skroutz Last Mile logistics, Skroutz Pay, and Skroutz Plus subscription, becoming the closest thing Greece has to a local answer to Amazon. The company was majority-acquired by CVC Capital Partners in 2021 at a valuation reported around EUR 300 million — one of the largest consumer-tech exits in Greek history — and it continues to run both its marketplace and a logistics arm independently. For the directory, Skroutz shows how a domestically dominant consumer platform can compound over fifteen years to become a strategic asset that global PE buyers are willing to pay premium multiples for.
Startup Growth E-commerceMarketplaceConsumer InternetLogistics
Athens, Greece · Startup Tech-driven used-car B2C platform that inspects, reconditions and sells pre-owned vehicles with transparency and warranty. Founded 2015, ~250 staff, operating in Greece, Poland, Romania and Germany.
Startup Growth MobilityE-commerceMarketplace
Athens, Greece · Startup Remote UX research and unmoderated usability-testing platform for product teams, with card sorting, tree testing, prototype analytics and Figma/Sketch imports. Founded 2018, backed by Metavallon VC.
Startup Seed SaaSDeveloper ToolsAI
Athens, Greece · Startup Viva Wallet is an Athens-based neobank and acquiring bank that built Europe's first fully cloud-native card-acquiring platform, running on Microsoft Azure and designed from day one for SoftPOS and ISO-independent merchant onboarding. The company serves small and medium merchants across 24 European countries with Android-based payment terminals, e-commerce gateways, IBAN accounts, instant settlement, and merchant cash advance products, and crossed 500,000 merchants before the JPMorgan Chase acquisition closed. JPMorgan bought a majority stake in 2022 valuing Viva Wallet at around USD 2 billion, specifically to use its cloud-native acquiring stack as the base for Chase's own European merchant-services expansion — one of the largest strategic tech acquisitions ever done out of Greece. Founded by Haris Karonis, Viva is today the anchor of the Athenian fintech cluster and proof that payments infrastructure of global quality can be built outside of London, Amsterdam, and Stockholm.
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Athens, Greece · Startup Welcome Pickups is an Athens-based travel technology company offering personalised airport transfers and in-destination travel experiences. Founded in 2015 by Alexandros Trimis and Savvas Georgiou, the platform lets travelers pre-book rides at fixed prices and combines transfers with additional in-destination services. It operates across more than 100 destinations and partners with hotels, airlines and travel agencies to handle guest transfers. In December 2022 it raised a €5.3 million round led by Market One Capital, Flashpoint and Venture Friends to expand its destination network.
Startup Series A TravelTechMarketplaceConsumerSaaS
Athens, Greece · Startup Workable is an Athens-founded HR and recruiting platform that helps companies source, evaluate, and hire candidates through an integrated applicant tracking system, AI-powered sourcing, and structured interview workflows. The platform serves over 27,000 companies and has expanded from recruitment into broader HR operations including onboarding, time tracking, and employee management. Founded in 2012, Workable has raised over $100 million and built a globally competitive product from Greece, making it one of the country's most prominent B2B SaaS exports and a demonstration that world-class HR technology can originate outside traditional tech hubs.
Startup Growth HR TechRecruitingB2B SaaS