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Alex Alexakis

Investor at Marathon Venture Capital

Greece

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Investor

    2020

    Day one partner to Greek tech founders

  • Captain

    2020

    Learn what matters in Greek tech & startups Newsletter: startuppirate.com Jobs and Communities: startuppirate.gr Twitter: @StartupPirateGR

2018 - 2020

  • Senior Product Manager

    2018 - 2020

    Hospitality tech company, transforming the mid to long-term housing experience for business professionals and individual travellers. Presence in the US, Europe and Middle East. • Joined the product team early on (PM #2), to lead the booking platform and focus on growth and conversion. • The team grew online deals from 9% to 65%. • Drove hiring process for 3 PMs and 2 UX researchers.

2015 - 2018

  • Product Manager

    2015 - 2018

    Online recruitment software that helps companies find the right talent. Joined the product team early on (PM #2) to build a new product line (Sourcing) and lead a team of developers, designers, and data scientists. Launched the following products: • People Search, the candidate sourcing product line of Workable to help companies find the right candidates through machine learning. • Workable Job Board for job seekers. • Integrations with job boards and managed technology partnerships.

2013 - 2018

  • Building stuff, Product & UX

    2013 - 2018

    • 2017-2018: Kenza - CI/CD for Machine Learning. Team from Expedia, JustEat, Workable. Winners of Product Hunt Global Hackathon 2017 among 4,500 teams. Judges from YC, FB, AWS, Slack, and many VCs. Launched open source project (Sagify) to train and deploy ML/DL models on AWS SageMaker https://github.com/Kenza-AI • 2014-2016: Trivitap - Quiz mobile game. Team from Revolut, Expedia, JustEat. ~400 downloads in the first week. • 2013-2014: Edtech startup helping students enter top-tier UK universities. Team from LSE and Cambridge. Managed to get tens of students into well-respected UK universities. Closed down ops as we couldn't scale.

2014 - 2015

  • Technology Consultant

    2014 - 2015

    IT projects for the European Commission

2013 - 2014

  • Growth & Operations

    2013 - 2014

2012 - 2013

  • Information Systems Analyst

    2012 - 2013

2011 - 2011

  • E-Business Intern

    2011 - 2011

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