Grigorios Chatzikostas

Bio

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 15 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 a passionate and 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. Currently he is among the general partners of Loggerhead Ventures, an early stage Greek VC, investing in climatech startups.