Start of the new cycle of the egg Start-Up platform

With the start of the new cycle of the egg Start-Up platform, egg – enter • grow • go enters dynamically in the tenth (10th) year of its presence in the Greek start-up scene, further expanding its footprint as the most recognized and complete framework business acceleration in Greece.

The egg, designed and implemented by Eurobank, in collaboration with Corallia of the EC. Athena, since 2013, to support innovative entrepreneurship in Greece, supports multidimensional participants seeking funding, extroversion and business networking, while contributing to the effective interconnection of the academic, business and investment community in the country. In the 10th cycle, utilizing its experience and modern structure, egg upgrades and intensifies the guidance of the business teams that will join, seeking to accelerate the implementation of their business plans.

Crucial to maximizing the benefit for the participants is their inclusion, depending on the stage of maturity / readiness of their business plan, in appropriate business acceleration cohorts, within the egg Start-Up platform, with corresponding customized business serums (milestones) and consulting monitoring under the Program. The aim is to identify their real needs and seek synergies with the other participants as members of a development “ecosystem”, enhancing funding opportunities.

“By constantly improving and upgrading its structures and services, egg enters its tenth year of operation”, said the General Manager of Marketing & Corporate Communication of the Eurobank Group and Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of egg, Mr. Michalis Vlastarakis and added: “Contributing has already supported more than 1,000 entrepreneurs in the expansion of the Greek ecosystem of innovative enterprises, while it has contributed to the creation of 150 companies. egg and we support every dynamic development initiative that is developed through the State, such as the establishment of the Cooperative Innovation Scheme in the Tourism & Culture Sectors for the modernization of the Greek tourist and cultural product. “.

In the 10th cycle, further dynamic characteristics of the egg strategy are strengthened, taking into account the new framework that is being formed, post-pandemic, in the economy.

-Business groups that are innovative companies, already successfully registered in the National Register of Start-ups “Elevate Greece”, can apply for participation in the Start-Up platform and, if they successfully qualify from the AD Phase of the evaluation (check of formal requirements – completeness qualify directly for the final stage of the evaluation.

-Every business plans have the opportunity to participate, as long as it is judged that they meet specific conditions of business innovation, excellence and sustainability in the context of the trends of the Greek and international market. However, business projects in competing industries such as 5G technologies, integrated solutions to ESG standards (Environmental, Social, corporate Governance) are also encouraged, as well as projects that leverage many years of research activity or make extensive use of innovations in areas such as Artificial Intelligence. , Big Data, Cybersecurity, Travel Technologies & Modern Services, Fintech, Robotics, Virtual / Augmented Reality, Industry 4.0, Biotechnology, Medical Technologies and Methods, Agricultural Technology, Environmental Technologies, Energy, Education, etc. as well as business plans from schemes that empower women entrepreneurship in practice.

-A package of financial options is provided for the utilization of different financing channels for the implementation of the business plan (under the necessary condition of existence of a company-body implementing the business plan):
Possibility of microfinance under the European EASI program and in collaboration with AFI (Action Finance Initiative) in the “hatching” stages within egg.
Possibility for working capital loans aimed at improving the company’s liquidity, as well as loans that include installation loans and professional equipment loans.
Ability to interface for access in raising funds through private equity investments for companies that have a highly competitive and innovative idea at an advanced stage of development, through networking and support when presenting their business ideas to active Venture Capital Funds (VOCs), strategic investors or other partners and / or representatives of investment organizations.

– The Extroversion Program for the business groups that will be integrated, through business missions, in advanced innovation ecosystems abroad, is strengthened, as well as through actions of their connection with the real economy by activating the business networking pillar with recognized domestic and international bodies.

Applications for participation in egg – enter • grow • go are submitted from Friday, February 18, 2022, at 12:00, until Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 15.00, while the first Open Day will be held, online, on Wednesday, 2 March 2022, at 17.00.

More information at egg website – enter • grοw • go.