Marathon Venture Capital is making an aggressive turn toward AI with its EUR 75 million Fund III, after its portfolio has generated around €400 million in exits. Backed by the European Investment Fund and the Hellenic Development Bank of Investments, the fund leads seed rounds in ambitious technology founders from Greece and the diaspora.

Greece’s new national supercomputer Daedalus is going live at the Lavrion Technological and Cultural Park. With 89 petaflops of computing power, it is about 150 times more powerful than the existing ARIS system and is expected to rank among Europe’s top systems, serving the research, innovation and AI communities.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Chris Rokos plans to move his tax residency to Greece and open an Athens office of Rokos Capital Management, which manages about $22 billion. The move highlights Greece’s growing appeal to international fund managers, supported by its EUR 100,000 flat tax on foreign income and a new 5% tax rate on carried interest.