Announcing Marathon Venture Capital Fund III 💥. Since 2007, we have been on a mission – to bring our founder community together, and help build world-class technology companies. We founded some of the original startups, nurtured a community around them, raised the first

Wen Athens?.

Join millions who have switched to Grok.

“Do you have to work 996?” “No,” he laughed. “It’s 007 now.” (Midnight to midnight, seven days a week.). A fascinating travelogue on the lifestyle of Chinese tech –

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“I’m 23 and into my third startup” – so jealous of the next gen!.

Startup founders, don’t get too obsessed with revenue concentration, just grow the business ;).

Delivering a robust power grid tech stack, by SMPnet

Terumo to buy OrganOx for $1.5B to enter transplant field – congrats to the founder Prof Constantin Coussios!

Nice summary by @nickclegg

It’s a wonderful world

Δώστε το περιβραχιόνιο του αρχηγού στον Γιάννη. Μεγαλώστε κ άλλο το κίνητρό του για διάκριση. Το μπάσκετ του είναι από άλλον πλανήτη. Οι κανόνες υπάρχουν για να αλλάζουν. Γιγαντώστε τον μύθο της Εθνικής. @Giannis_An34 @HellenicBF #ethnikiomada

It’s not the algorithm per se – the challenges of social media with massive audiences are closer to their very nature, manifested even when you get AIs participating instead. A fascinating study and interview by @arstechnica:

There is a rule in politics that the hardest to digest measures are taken by the party least aligned with them.

Here’s the full video interview of @delian_ai’s @DimitriosKottas at CNBC earlier today!. Some quotes: . There is consensus that Europe needs to modernize its defense capabilities, and such efforts are going to last for at least a decade. Commercial.

Every ⁦@davidu⁩’s point is 10x more critical and urgent for Europe – it is not about supremacy anymore, but mere survival – while our leading institutions are still stuck with the old ESG doctrine… Founders and investors, it’s on us to lead the way!

RT @nathanbenaich: we are at a unique time in history when new defense primes are necessary to protect europe. @delian_ai is quietly delive….

RT @gtzi: “In H1 2025, only €100m of capital was raised [in Southern Europe] over four vehicles, with the majority from emerging firms. T….

“In H1 2025, only €100m of capital was raised [in Southern Europe] over four vehicles, with the majority from emerging firms. The largest close was Marathon Venture Capital III in Greece, which raised €75m to invest in early stage B2B startups.”. The latest @PitchBook report

Big part of the transition from engineer to entrepreneur is getting excited with customers rather than products.

Total funding YTD in Greek-founded, non GR-based startups is matching 2022 dollar figures and may be on track to surpass its 2021 peak, led by defense and AI companies such as Saronic, Runway, Teamworks, LMArena, Endor Labs and Reflection AI (while e.g. Runway may be raising

"Windsurf scaled revenue 10x while running global finance with just two people and Rillet." – Wow, congrats to Stelios Modes and the team!.