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Eurythmia Medical Network

AlgosRithm Poject

Goodvidio

The hard times that Greece faces should not hinder entrepreneurship. Instead, it is
a fertile ground for creativity, innovation, and success.
VentureGarden is the first comprehensive educational process for growing
entrepreneurs, not ideas. VentureGarden is a project created by the Anatolia
School of Business of The American College of Thessaloniki with the support of
The Hellenic Initiative.. It aims to help participants develop the venturer within
and move from consideration to action. Once participants understand the journey,
they can work on a specific idea says Dr. Dimitris Kontarinis. VentureGarden is
delivered in Thessaloniki and Athens simultaneously and is free of charge!
VentureGarden is best described by its motto: Helping People Grow Ideas! The
underlying pedagogy of the program is based upon both schools business
education legacy and their connections to the local entrepreneurial communities.

Here is an early view of some of the people

VentureGarden has helped grow their ideas:

1VentureGarden Class

MEDICAL NETWORK
2 Nick EURYTHMIA
Doulamis-Managing
Director

EURYTHMIA MEDICAL
NETWORK
EURYTHMIA MEDICAL NETWORK is an
inspired idea by Greek physicians dedicated
to the practice of medicine. A Greek
Medical Services Facilitator Company
founded by Nick Doulamis (Managing
Director), with a background in the
pharmaceutical industry, and Interventional
Cardiologists Dr.Dimitris Zioutas
(MD,Phd,FESC) and Dr. Chris

We founded a medical tourism facilitator

company because we thought that there is an
opportunity in this business sector especially
in Greece. International Medical Services is a
growing market worldwide, so we founded a
Private Equity Medical Company based on a
network of physicians, private clinics and
travel agents in order to provide high quality
healthcare solutions in reasonable prices. As a
start-up business, in our attempt we had the
support of the Venture Garden Program of
ACT in matters of mentoring and
networking.Doulamis says

Papadopoulos(Senior Lecturer in
Cardiology).

In our attempt we had the support of the Venture Garden Program of ACT in matters of
mentoring and networking
Mission & Vision
Statement
Mission statement: Our mission is to
practice high level medicine based on
modern methods and technology by well

The doctors of our network are board certified and licensed as primary care physicians
with prescription rights in states offering licensure, and as it is well known Greece is a
great place for vacation! We offer all kinds of medical services such as Cardiology
Operations, Orthopedic, Gynecology-IVF, ENT, Urology and Cosmetic Plastic surgery.

trained and high educated physicians in

All our physicians received their training in countries as Canada, England, the U.S.A. and

reasonable prices.

they have demonstrated scientific work at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Our vision is to create a network between peers in Greece and the countries in the

Vision statement: Our vision is to provide

Balkans at first, and then to other countries of Europe, China and the U.S.A. in order to

accessible, effective healthcare. We also

provide high standard health care and to cover the unmet need of the health care

want to leave our mark to the local

system. We are already in the Albanian market and we are discussing the Russian and

community by social activities.

Georgian market. Our next goal is the U.S.A!!!

Our next steps is to find affiliates in:

-U.S.A.
-Russia
-Georgia

Find us at:
www.emn-healthcare.com
info@emn-healthcare.com
eurythmia73@gmail.com

3 Dr. Dimitris Papadopoulos the founder of the company

Current Stage of
AlgosRithm
Dimitris Papadopoulos describes the
current stage of the company Right now
there is already a prototype for the

AlgosRithm Project

diagnosis and management of low back

pain which is under scientific validation
from our strategic partner in Greece, 2nd
Department of Anesthesiology & Pain

What is the AlgosRithm Company? Dimitris Papadopoulos the founder of the

company explains AlgosRithm is a startup company that is going to provide
personalized artificial intelligence, diagnostic expert systems and electronic support
tools for patients with chronic pain conditions. The companys goal is to help epatients, to be active in the management of their pain conditions and empower
them, to take the optimal decision, in collaboration with the best pain & spine

Management, University Clinic, Athens

Medical School.
Additionally, the team seeks out for seed
funding in order to execute the business

physicians while the vision of the company is to navigate people in pain, to earn back,

plan. We are in advanced discussions with

their lost quality of life.

VCs in Greece but we are interested to talk

also with investors from abroad. he says.

VentureGarden it expanded my knowledge base in

entrepreneurship and it was a perfect chance for selfempowerment
The management team of the AlgosRithm Company is a combination of sciences.
Dimitris Papadopoulos the founder of the company is an accredited, world known,
pain & spine interventional expert physician, working for at least 15 years in the

In the particular part, the course of

VentureGarden and the program in
general says Papadopoulos it expanded
my knowledge base in entrepreneurship
and it was a perfect chance for selfempowerment, pivoting of the business
idea and network development.

health industry. Co-founders of the company are highly experienced individuals in

economics, marketing and computer science. AlgosRithms Advisory Board consists of
expert scientists in the field of pain therapy and artificial intelligence expert systems.

4 Dimitrios Kourtesis and Konstantinos Bratanis the founders

of Goodvideo

Background
Online video content is exploding:

100 hours of video uploaded to

YouTube every minute

Goodvidio - Social video content automation

for ecommerce
Dimitrios Kourtesis and Konstantinos Bratanis have identified a tremendous business

6 billion hours of video are

watched each month on
YouTube

In a 2014 survey by Animoto,

opportunity that Goodvidio aims to seize. Goodvidio is an intermediary that brings the

96% of shoppers said they find

best product video content from social media where its valued most: in front of online

videos very helpful when

shoppers eyes, right inside retailers product description pages. Goodvidio was founded
by computer scientists Dimitrios Kourtesis and Konstantinos Bratanis, PhD researchers at
the University of Sheffield and software engineers with several years of experience in
industry and academia, working on enterprise software, cloud computing, and intelligent
information management.
What Goodvidio offers to online retailers is a simple and powerful Software as a

making purchase decisions

72% of the online retailers

surveyed by Forrester in 2013
said that enhancing product
pages with video is in their top
5 priorities

Service solution to bring the best video content from social media inside their product

The problem: Ecommerce sites want to

pages, and achieve maximum visitor engagement and conversion Kourtesis and

enhance their pages with engaging video

Bratanis say.

content. And they have two options: they

In short, Goodvidio takes care of all the hard work of social video content discovery,

can either create original video content, or

A/B testing and optimization, so that online retailers can save valuable time and simply

they can reuse existing 3rd party videos

enjoy the benefits Kourtesis says.

already available on social video sharing

The stores visitors are provided with the content they like the most, so they will stay

platforms like YouTube and Vimeo. The

longer on the site and buy more. And the retailers Return on Investment is quantifiable

first option is extremely costly while the

in the most objective and measurable way Bratanis says.

second one is extremely time-consuming.

Future Plans of Goodvidio

Going forward, they are growing their team in order to meet demand while looking to
receive their first round of external investment to secure the necessary resources to scale.
Mid-2015 we are launching Goodvidio in public beta, and planning to launch full scale by

American College of
Thessaloniki

the end of the same year they say.

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business that generates 60+ million EUR in revenue per year by serving more than 15000

Our ambition is to make Goodvidio synonymous to ecommerce video marketing; the first
mover in the space of SaaS solutions for social video content automation in ecommerce; a
customers across the world, by 2019.

Our progress during the past 6 months:

We are now live on 4 ecommerce sites, including major online retailers in the Greek
market.

We are about to go live on 7 more retailer sites (Greece, UK, Ireland).

In total, we have received 30 beta invitation requests, from 6 countries.

We are soon growing our team to 10 people.

We are in the process of raising a seed round of external investment to help

our company scale.

The mentoring we received through VentureGarden was a big boost forward!