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Grigoris Chatzikostas

Onassis Stegi

Grigoris Chatzikostas

Vice President of Business Development FOODSCALE HUB ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION ASSOCIATION, FOODSCALE HUB ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION ASSOCIATION

Grigoris Chatzikostas is an expert in financing innovation in agtech and foodtech. He is managing multi-national and cross-sectoral consortia, developing proposals for EU funding and coordinating large-scale projects that promote tech-enabled entrepreneurship in the agrifood sector. In the past 18 years he has managed projects exceeding the total value of 120 mEUR. He has delivered programs supporting more than 150 startups and SMEs with pre-seed funding and business support services. As an engaging public speaker and trainer, he makes complex subjects related to EU funding and technologies accessible and easy to understand.

He also offers mentoring and strategic consulting to a small number of carefully selected companies that are aligned with his interests.