Startup Grind Athens Hosts Spyros Trachanis (Managing Partner Odyssey Venture Partners)

Startup Grind Local features incredible talks with entrepreneurs from Startup Grind’s world wide network. StartupGrind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 150 cities and 65 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Our monthly fireside chat interviews, startup mixers and annual conferences provide ample opportunities to connect with amazing startups and the people behind them, tap into a strong support network, form meaningful connections and gain inspiration for the startup journey ahead. Subscribe to Startup Grind Athens:    • Athens, Greece   Startup Grind on YouTube:    / startupgrind   Follow us on Twitter:   / startupgrindathensath   Like us on Facebook:   / startupgrindathens   Find a Startup Grind event in Athens, Greece: http://www.startupgrind.com/athens Spyros has been an active investor in Greek early stage and growth companies since 1999 following a career in telecom operations consulting. He is Managing Partner of Odyssey Venture Partners, specializing in helping "early stage" companies reach customers and partners around the world and "seed stage" companies prove their business ideas, develop early customer references, and produce fundable business plans. The 'Odyssey JEREMIE Partners' fund is the largest venture capital fund exclusively focused on ICT investing in Greece. Spyros established Oxygen Capital NeoVentures, a growth capital fund and before that he was an investment director and co-founder of NBGI Ventures and an investment manager with Global Finance. Spyros investments have included: InternetQ, Information Dynamics, spitogatos.gr, Theta Microelectronics, Forth Photonics and Zephyr Communications among others. He is currently a member of the board of the Hellenic Venture Capital Association and has in the past served on the boards and investment committees of several private companies and funds. Spyros holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras and an MBA from Insead.