Endeavor Entrepreneurs ring in the New Year with impressive funding rounds, acquisitions, and partnerships
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Kicking off 2023 💥
Our network has entered the New Year with a bang, but it's always great to look back at the accomplishments that took place in 2022 and brought our ecosystem to where it is today!
Check out our 2022 Year In Review, featuring the Annual Letter from our Chairwoman, Costantza Sbokou Constantakopoulou, milestones in the tech ecosystem, portfolio’s achievements, and future initiatives that will continue to put us at the forefront of innovation in Greece.
Hack The Box is on a roll 💪
Leading gamified cybersecurity upskilling and talent assessment platform, Hack The Box, closed an impressive Series B investment round of $55 million led by Carlyle, joined by the Endeavor Catalyst Fund, Paladin Capital Group, Osage University Partners, Marathon Venture Capital, and Brighteye Ventures.
Their involvement in the Endeavor Network goes back to 2020, when Hack The Box was selected to participate in the first Batch of our ScaleUp Program. Following that, CEO & Co-Founder Haris Pylarinos was selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2021, and fast forward to today, Hack the Box has become a Catalyst Investee! We are thrilled to be more involved in their journey, and can’t wait to see what’s in store in the coming years!
Greek Tech News 🇬🇷
💰 Viva Wallet closes one of the biggest fintech equity transactions in 2022, and the biggest in Q4. J.P. Morgan acquired a 48.5% stake in the Greek PayTech company Viva Wallet in a deal that is believed to be worth around $800m.
☕️ BibeCoffee raised €2.1M in a round led by Eleven Ventures with participation from Uni.Fund and backed again by VentureFriends .
Welinq raises a €5 million pre-seed financing round aimed at helping the company deploy its variety of connecting quantum computers based on the neutral-atom approach.
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