Greece courts investors on U.S. trip and AI push

The prime minister’s agenda underscores how hard Athens is leaning into the AI cycle. On Monday and Tuesday he is due in San Francisco for meetings with high-tech companies and Greek founders in Silicon Valley, with discussions expected to focus on artificial intelligence and stronger links between the U.S. tech sector and Greece’s domestic innovation ecosystem.

He will then move to Stanford and later to New York for a roundtable with more than 30 institutional investors already active in Greece, alongside meetings with senior executives from major international financial institutions. That combination points to a broader effort to convert diplomatic visibility into funding for Greek companies, infrastructure and strategic sectors, including energy and defense.

For investors, the message is that Greece wants to be seen less as a peripheral euro zone borrower and more as an emerging hub for digital and strategic investment. The timing also matters: as global markets wrestle with tighter financial conditions and a volatile macro backdrop, Athens is trying to lock in credibility while appetite for AI-related growth remains strong.

Mitsotakis is also scheduled to appear at the launch of the OceanEye global alliance with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and to speak on AI at Columbia University, reinforcing the policy angle of the trip. His final stop includes a live interview with Bloomberg on Friday, which could offer more detail on how Greece plans to court tech capital and sustain investor interest.