Author: Pericles Nicolaos Ghikas

Pericles Nicolaos Ghikas (Peri Ghika) was born and raised in an agricultural family at the village of Kriekouki, in rural Attica, Greece. He later moved with his family to Keratsini, where he finished his secondary education. In 1997 he was admitted to the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete. In 2000 he joined Virtual Trip Ltd, Greece's first student startup, as an intern. He left the company in December 2011 as a senior software engineer, having in the meantime dropped out of his studies. Having been infected by the entrepreneurship virus, Peri joined Starttech Ventures in January 2012 and works there since then; he has evolved to a senior venture partner, working both on the venture building and seed investments pillars of the organization.

Jan 28, 2016 - News and Events

Starttech Ventures announces its 1st Demo Day event

The company has selected nine startup projects to be presented on the 1st Demo Day (#StartTechDemo1)

Jan 12, 2016 - Investments

World Business Angels Investment Forum (Feb 21-23, Instabul)

Public and corporate early stage market players in collaboration to improve the global entrepreneurial landscape.

Jan 08, 2016 - Tips for startups

Startup Grind Athens Hosts AbZorba Games’ Manos Moschous (Jan 12)

It was an overnight success that took several years of hard work from CEO and co-founder Andrew Hughes, CTO and co-Founder Manos Moschous and our very own StartTech Ventures nurturing and incubation support.

Dec 10, 2015 - Starttech Talks

Q&A session with “Code it Like a Girl” organizers

Code it Like a Girl is a social enterprise whose main goal is to familiarize women with coding

Dec 04, 2015 - News and Events

Say hello to Blueline, our new startup aiming to disrupt healthcare provision

Next week we’re extremely proud to be showcasing Blueline’s service and its accompanying mobile apps at the Digital Health World Forum in London.

Nov 25, 2015 - News and Events

1st Athens ‘Code it Like A Girl workshop’, 28-29th November

Before IT even existed, Ada Lovelace wrote math routines for the very first digital computer architecture.

Nov 24, 2015 - Entrepreneurship

Key Takeouts from the EBAN Winter University in Copenhagen

First and most common reason for a startup to fail is that there is no actual market need for that product or service

May 23, 2015 - Investments

Launching HeBAN, the Hellenic Business Angel Network

Finally a number of stakeholders joined forces to create HeBAN, the Greek advocacy organization for early stage investments.

Mar 13, 2014 - News and Events

StackMasters is announcing its collaboration with OpenStack global leader Mirantis

This partnership aims to offer our clients and all interested IT professionals a rigorous, proven curriculum on designing, planning and managing OpenStack clouds that will cover all of their cloud training needs.

Feb 26, 2014 - Investments, Entrepreneurship

Starttech in Berlin

Berlin as International Business & Entrepreneurship Hub in a Global Competitive Environment

Nov 29, 2013 - Investments, Entrepreneurship

Starttech co-hosts Business Angel Workshop, Dec 5

Workshop to to share best practices and experience from the international business angels scene and to kick-start the process of creating an active business angels network in Athens

Nov 18, 2013 - Investments, Entrepreneurship

Starttech salutes the European Business Angels Week (18-24 November)

EBAW is the result of a major cross-European collaboration, with 34 participating countries organising 138 events, with the support, of among others, YES and the Hellenic Start-up Association.