24MEDIA Holding is announcing its participation in Marathon Venture Capital, a fund that invests in innovative Greek technology companies with a global outlook.
Dimitris Maris, Founder and Chairman of 24MEDIA, will also join the Marathon Venture Capital's Advisory Committee.
George Tziralis, Partner at Marathon Fund stated: “We are glad to have prominent investors onboard and thanks to their trust, we will be able to support ambitious entrepreneurs in their effort to establish world class technology companies”.
Dimitris Maris, Founder and Chairman of 24MEDIA, Greece's leading digital publishing group, is a serial entrepreneur and technology investor. He noted: “I'm delighted to be collaborating with the Marathon fund team, which has a proven track record on both the financial and the product side of business. The emergence of a budding ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation in Greece has been a consistently positive story during the crisis. The Equifund program can prove a catalyst towards the qualitative upgrade of the Greek economy and a strong motivating factor towards attracting and retaining its high-skilled workforce”.
Members of the Advisory Committee of Marathon Venture Capital also include Elodie Donjon, Investment Manager at European Investment Fund and Ioannis Martinos, CEO at Signal Maritime.