Acquires startup Accusonus, founds Meta Hellas
In advanced discussions for the establishment of a Greek subsidiary, under the umbrella of which can be transferred prospective international activities that are currently carried out from other countries, but also for the acquisition of the Greek advanced audio technology company Accusonus, where the parent company is located. of Facebook, Meta Platforms, Inc.
According to information, Meta Platforms will acquire 100% of Accusonus from its founders and shareholders, Alexandros Tsilfidis, Elias Kokkini and Michalis Janne, as well as another shareholder, the venture capital fund Big Pi Ventures, interests of Markos Veremis, in ( enterprise value) between € 70 million and € 100 million. The signatures are scheduled to enter, except unexpectedly, next Friday and the relevant announcements to be made at the beginning of next week.
Meta Platforms, which has been negotiating for a few months now, will not only maintain Accusonus’ operations in Greece, and in particular in Athens and Patras, where it has offices (but is based in Massachusetts, USA), but will also invest in to develop it further. Its goal is for the Greek startup to provide the solutions needed for the world of virtual reality or metaverse developed by the American technological world. It is noted that the term “metaverse” describes the coupling of reality and the image of reality resulting in augmented reality in the context of social networks. In this way a Greek company that “runs” an important part of the global backbone of metaverse.
At the same time, as early as September, Meta Platforms contacted the Greek government in order to evaluate the prospect of establishing a subsidiary here and transferring a significant number of their employees from other territories to Greece. The relevant discussions and questions that the American company team had undertaken to be coordinated and answered by a government staff headed by the head of the financial office of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Alexis Patelis.
The discussions included detailed presentations of both the tax and labor framework in Greece and the insurance coverage and benefits and incentives that have already been enacted to attract foreign workers and companies to relocate and work from here.
The fact that Greece has managed to attract investments from technology giants such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Digital Realty, which acquired the Greek Lamda Helix, which develop data centers, played a decisive role in the decisions of Meta Platforms. . and latest generation cloud services in our country, providing the limited infrastructure to host parts of the activity of the parent company of Facebook.
And so Meta, whose market value on Monday afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange was at 853 billion dollars, is one step ahead of the opening of Meta Hellas, a subsidiary with Greek VAT that can potentially employ hundreds of hundreds of employees out of 68.177 . people working for it worldwide.
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