The Equity Investment Forum, which will take place in Athens, in December 7th-8th 2015, is the leading event for all equity financing solutions on venture capital & private equity level, as well as on stock exchange markets level in Greece.
For this year’s event, more than 300 business plans from Greek start ups, developing, small and large companies covering a wide spectrum of business were submitted for evaluation by the 27 Greek, Israeli and international venture capital funds (also more than ever). The fact that the number of business plans is three times greater than last year’s event and that more than 1,000 delegates have already registered, more than twice than those in the last conference, are both indicative of the growing interest in the conference.The registration procedure will be open until December 4, 2015 through the official website of the conference www.eiforum.gr.
It is co-organized by the Athens Stock Exchange, Enterprise Greece, Hellenic Venture Capital Association, New Economy Development Fund (TANEO), and PRAXI Network-coordinator of the Enterprise Europe Network-Hellas, under the auspices of the Ministry of Economy Development & Tourism.
Active involvement
This year’s Forum welcomes Israel as the honored country and appreciates the active involvement of the Israeli Embassy of Athens.
A dedicated delegation of Israeli investors, policy makers and business people will contribute to the success of the event by promoting cross country operations and by enriching the Greek community with valuable expertise and experience.
All involved parties aim at establishing a strong, flexible and mutually beneficial business relationship between our distinguished countries.
Unique opportunity
The Equity Investment Forum is the successor to the International Venture Capital and Private Equity Forum that has been organized annually since 1999, with great success.
It is a unique opportunity for more than 500 participants (entrepreneurs, investment professionals, fund managers, stock exchange executives, investment bankers, admission consultants, policy makers) to network, exchange views and experiences and explore investment funding and business deal opportunities. On most occasions the Forum has had the honor to have the Minister of Economy as its keynote speaker.
On average over 150 pre-arranged meetings take place, among venture capitalists, private equity investors and entrepreneurs, while also impromptu meetings occur frequently / in numbers.
Expansion capital
During the last Forum organizers received over 100 business plans and distributed them to 17 funds for evaluation, which led to over 150 pre-arranged bilateral business meetings. 88% of those business plans came from Greece, 4% from Cyprus, 4% from Great Britain, 2% from the USA.
Most of the business plans were seeking expansion capital, a fact which underlines the shortage of liquidity even among established companies.
Attendance also reached the impressive number of 550 people, a fact that made a lot of ad hoc networking possible.
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