
The Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry participated with a strong team in the Web Summit 2022, which took place this year in Lisbon from 1 to 4 November.
The event is one of the most important international meetings in the field of entrepreneurship, innovation and technology ecosystem, which this year brought together over 70,000 participants, more than 1,000 speakers, 2,000 start-up companies and 1,000 investors.
The Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry was represented by its president Sofia Kounenaki Efraimoglou and the director of International Relations Eleni Foti.
Chamber president Ms. Sofia Kounenaki Efraimoglou, referring to the initiatives and actions implemented by the Chamber to strengthen start-up entrepreneurship noted its focus on strengthening innovation and start-up entrepreneurship, undertaking new initiatives and creating a wide network of collaborations with innovation bodies in Greece and abroad, while being the first Chamber in Greece and Europe to create a Young Business Incubator.
In this context, Ethe Chamber supported the active participation in the Web Summit of 10 start-ups, included in the Chamber’s Start-up Athens Business Incubator (ABI) and the business accelerator of the European Project “GAZELLE: orGAniZing acceleration for high-potentiaL innovativE SMEs”, of which the Chamber is the coordinator-partner. During the international exhibition, Chamber startups had the opportunity to get in touch with major foreign markets, participate in know-how exchange actions and good practices, networking workshops, B2B meetings, achieve visibility and awareness, thus promoting , the work of EBEA and the Region of Attica and outside Greece.
In Web Summit 2022 the following start-ups of Athens Business Incubator and the Gazelle Project participated:
Omgyno https://www.omgyno.com(ABI)
Rhoe https://rhoe.gr/ (ABI)
Ergasia App https://ergasia.app/ (ABI)
Hobsido https://hobsido.com (ABI)
Project Parenting https://www.projectparenting.gr/ (Gazelle)
Kleesto https://kleesto.com/ (Gazelle)
Digisec A.E https://digisec.gr/ (Gazelle)
Dataphoria https://www.dataphoria.gr/ (Gazelle)
Traqbeat Technologies PC https://traqbeat.com/ (Gazelle)
Inteligg p.c https://www.intelligg.com/ (Gazelle)


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