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Virtual Trip, abbreviated Vtrip, is a Greece-based Information and Communication Technologies company, headquartered in Athens, Greece. It offers a range of software services, with a set of spin-out companies driving individual software products.

The company was founded in 2000 as a software development subcontractor, only to turn to a product-oriented approach to the international ICT market in 2003. Currently, Virtual Trip, along with the 7 connected companies, hold a workforce of 60 employees, with international presence and an antenna-office in Madrid, Spain.

2000: Founding
Vtrip was founded by 5 undergraduate student of the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete in Heraklion, Greece. They were: Dimitris Tsigos, Periklis Akritidis, Haris Gkikas, Miltos Vasilakis and Nikos Venturas. All were software engineers, with the exception of Dimitris Tsigos acting as a Sales Manager.

2000-2002: Early years
The majority of projects that Vtrip undertook during the 3 first years of its operation were software development subcontracting, with focus on web portals implementation using Zope and Java.