Greek startup building brains for international auto industry

Startup company Kenotom is one of the success stories that stood out at the inaugural Greek-German Innovation Forum at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) in southern Athens a few months ago.

The forum, titled "Innovation as a Growth Lever - a Greek-German Cooperation," was co-organized by the Hellenic-German Chamber of Commerce together with the German Embassy in Athens. The main topic of conversation at the forum was the production of specialized electronic control units (ECUs), the so-called "brains" of the car.

Kenotom's co-founders, Fotis Panteliadis and Tilemachos Matiakis, are both electrical engineers who graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Matiakis completed his PhD dissertation at the Technical University of Munich in Germany, a country both men have worked in.

They decided to move back to Greece to start a...