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Origin
Story

It started when we were young. All of us liked to take things apart and put them back together, much to our parents chagrin. Luckily there was a profession that catered to this madness called engineering and it helped to professionalize our inherent tendencies.

It wasn’t enough though to build stuff. We wanted it to be more than useful. We wanted it to be life changing. So we went from thing to thing for a while and then while hanging out with a new friend it happened. We found the purpose that ticked all of the boxes. Our friend is just like us, but has a different way to get around. He uses a wheelchair. Just like us he loves the Greek summers that always include the sea.

He shared with us that he was tired of asking for assistance to get in and out of water. After the initial surprise that there is nothing in the market that can assist, we started to work on a solution that incorporated all of the needs to achieve this.

This is the origin story of SEATRAC Thanks to Professor Vassilis Kostopoulos and the initiator Gerasimos Fessian, vice-prefect of Prefecture of Achaia at that time, we secured the first location and when the product became viable we founded TOBEA LTD in 2012 in order to continue deployment and develop more products.

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Engineering Stuff

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Your Seatracs

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AWARDS

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      Accessibility Certified

      TOBEA is certified "Accessibility certified" according to the criteria of the nationwide label "Tourism for All". Inclusive Greece is the official partner in Greece for the certification. 

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      Start Up 2022 by ACCI

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      Eurordis Black Pearl Awards 2020-Company Award for Health Technology Tobea (Greece)

      Eurordis Black Pearl Awards 2020- Company Award for Health Technology Tobea (Greece)

      TOBEA

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      Chivas Venture Competition

      First Place In Greece

      Chivas Ventures Competition

      In 2018 TOBEA was awarded national champion in the Chivas Venture.

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      Greece Innovates

      2013

      Greece Innovates Award

      In 2013 we were awarded with the first prize for innovation at the second competition “Greece Innovates!” sponsored by SEB and Eurobank.

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      European Business Awards

      National Champion 2015

      European Business Awards

      TOBEA was awarded national champion on innovation on EBA (European Business Awards) in 2015.

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      Greek Patent

      No. 1008398

      The highest honors of our originality

      SEATRAC holds Greek (Patent No.1008398) and United States patent (Patent No. US 9,127,411 B2). TOBEA has already applied for a patent to the European Patent Office (Application No. EP 10752921.6). A freedom to operate analysis has already been conducted without revealing any problems. The device conforms to the applicable essential requirements of the machinery directive 2006/42/EC, EMC directive 2004/108/EC, RTTE directive 1999/5/EC, council recommendation 1999/519/EC, of 12 July 1999 based on the relevant sections of the associated specifications. SEATRAC has a Community Trade Mark identification no. 012587887 registered 25/11/2014. We have two industrial designs no. 003851039-0001/003851039-0002 and 001463871-0001.

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      USA PATENT

      9,127,411 B2

      The highest honors of our originality

      SEATRAC holds Greek (Patent No.1008398) and United States patent (Patent No. US 9,127,411 B2). TOBEA has already applied for a patent to the European Patent Office (Application No. EP 10752921.6). A freedom to operate analysis has already been conducted without revealing any problems. The device conforms to the applicable essential requirements of the machinery directive 2006/42/EC, EMC directive 2004/108/EC, RTTE directive 1999/5/EC, council recommendation 1999/519/EC, of 12 July 1999 based on the relevant sections of the associated specifications. SEATRAC has a Community Trade Mark identification no. 012587887 registered 25/11/2014. We have two industrial designs no. 003851039-0001/003851039-0002 and 001463871-0001.

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      EPO Application

      No. EP 10752921.6

      The highest honors of our originality

      SEATRAC holds Greek (Patent No.1008398) and United States patent (Patent No. US 9,127,411 B2). TOBEA has already applied for a patent to the European Patent Office (Application No. EP 10752921.6). A freedom to operate analysis has already been conducted without revealing any problems. The device conforms to the applicable essential requirements of the machinery directive 2006/42/EC, EMC directive 2004/108/EC, RTTE directive 1999/5/EC, council recommendation 1999/519/EC, of 12 July 1999 based on the relevant sections of the associated specifications. SEATRAC has a Community Trade Mark identification no. 012587887 registered 25/11/2014. We have two industrial designs no. 003851039-0001/003851039-0002 and 001463871-0001.

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      289 Old National Road Patras-Athens,
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