The directory currently lists 54 organisations across 3 cities.
54 entries.
The 12th International Funds Summit & Expo brings together fund managers, institutional investors, policymakers and industry leaders at the Parklane Resort & Spa in Limassol to examine the European alternative funds landscape. Sessions cover private credit, private equity value creation, AIFMD II implementation and the integration of AI into fund management.
The 17th Limassol Economic Forum is the region's leading strategic-leadership forum at City of Dreams Mediterranean, convening senior policymakers, executives, diplomats and economists across geopolitics, global economics, energy and business innovation for strategic dialogue and networking.
One-day QUBE forum at Four Seasons Limassol bringing 400+ leaders to cover instant payments, open banking, digital wallets, stablecoins, the Digital Euro, RegTech and AI in compliance.
33East was founded by Demetrios Zoppos and Yiannis Eftychiou and selected by the European Investment Fund in 2023 as Cyprus's first EIF-backed venture capital fund. It closed a €26 million debut fund in January 2025, anchored by the Cyprus Equity Fund (NRRP) and private investors including the Bank of Cyprus. The fund targets pre-seed and seed-stage startups with a Cyprus connection, writing cheques of €100K–€1M across enterprise software, fintech, gaming, marketplaces, logistics, digital health, and climate tech. First portfolio companies include Electryone AI, an AI-powered renewable-energy management platform.
Cyprus's flagship annual digital-transformation conference, focused on how AI is reshaping business across banking, shipping, tourism, retail, energy, telecom and healthcare. The day at The Landmark Hotel in Nicosia includes a main conference, an AI and ICT Expo, a networking cocktail and an invitation-only AI Leadership Circle.
Entrepreneur and leader of the Kameris Group, a Cypriot business group. He is an announced speaker at the INSPIRE 2026 Entrepreneurial Festival in Cyprus.
Dr. Artemis Kontou is a Senior Researcher and Entrepreneur at KIOS Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus, where she applies deep learning methodologies to healthcare diagnostics and monitoring challenges. She is the founder of Tseepor and co-founder of Malloc, a cybersecurity startup, demonstrating her trajectory from academic research to technology entrepreneurship. She is a confirmed speaker at the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, representing the intersection of AI research and startup building within the Cyprus innovation ecosystem.
Aseto is a Cyprus-based artificial intelligence startup specialising in speech recognition, speech-to-text technology, and machine learning model development. The company was a gold partner of the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, with its machine learning engineer among the event's confirmed speakers presenting on STT model research. Aseto develops AI-powered voice and audio processing tools targeting enterprise clients and developer teams.
Christiana Aristidou is a transnational technology lawyer with over 28 years of experience, specialising in blockchain regulation, AI legal oversight, and cross-border technology law. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Hybrid LawTech Firm, a practice that bridges legal expertise with emerging technology across multiple jurisdictions. She is a confirmed speaker at the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, representing the intersection of legal innovation and technology governance.
Christina Ioannou is the CEO and Founder of Arete Strategy AI, a consultancy operating across the EU and MENA regions that specialises in AI policy and strategic advisory services. She is a Policy Advisor recognised by the European Commission for her contributions to AI governance and regulatory frameworks, positioning her as a notable voice in European AI policy. She is a confirmed speaker at the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, bringing cross-jurisdictional expertise in AI strategy and public policy.
Co-founder of Nodes & Links, a startup applying AI to project risk and delivery. He is an announced speaker at the INSPIRE 2026 Entrepreneurial Festival in Cyprus.
Chrysalis LEAP is a Cyprus-based accelerator and innovation hub that supports early-stage startups through structured mentorship, workspace, and access to regional investor networks across the Eastern Mediterranean. The programme focuses on technology-driven ventures and helps founders refine product-market fit, build sustainable business models, and connect with corporate partners in sectors like fintech, healthtech, and sustainability. As one of the few dedicated accelerators operating on the island, Chrysalis LEAP plays a critical role in building the local startup ecosystem and retaining entrepreneurial talent in Cyprus.
Industry association representing Cyprus's information technology and digital enterprises, which co-organises the annual Digital Cyprus Conference. It promotes digital transformation, AI adoption and ICT-sector growth across Cypriot business and the public sector.
Covve is a Nicosia-based SaaS company, founded in 2013, that provides a business card scanning and personal CRM platform for professionals and teams. The platform allows users to capture leads by scanning business cards, event badges, and digital profiles, then sync contacts to major CRM systems including Salesforce and HubSpot. Covve serves over 2 million users across 130+ countries in 16 languages. The company is headquartered at Lordou Vyronos, Nicosia.
Three-day AI conference at Radisson Blu Larnaca with 40+ speakers covering AI applications across healthcare, finance, law, education and creative work, with keynotes, workshops, startup showcases and live demos.
An independent, not-for-profit annual policy conference organized by Oxygono in association with the Delphi Economic Forum, held at The Landmark Nicosia. The forum brings together political leaders, the public and private sectors, media, academia and civil society to debate public policy, the economy, innovation and technology in Cyprus.
Cyprus's leading technology and startup conference held in Limassol, the island's emerging tech hub. Covers fintech, shipping tech, and SaaS with a focus on Cyprus's advantages as an EU jurisdiction with favorable tax policies. Attracts 1,200+ attendees including founders from the large Eastern European and Israeli expat communities. Tickets from EUR 100-250.
Financial-services regulatory expert and former Chair of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, now at DKA Financial Consultants. She is an announced speaker at the Digital Assets and the Future of Finance Summit 2026 in Cyprus.
A full-day summit at City of Dreams Mediterranean on the convergence of crypto, blockchain and mainstream finance. Sessions cover MiCA and DORA regulation, the Digital Euro and CBDCs, stablecoins, tokenization of real-world assets and institutional digital-asset allocation, through keynotes, fireside chats and panels.
Founder of EFEVRE TECH, a Cypriot technology company. He is an announced speaker at the INSPIRE 2026 Entrepreneurial Festival in Cyprus.
Founder and leader of the Hyperion Group, with a background spanning energy trading and entrepreneurship. He is an announced speaker at the INSPIRE 2026 Entrepreneurial Festival in Cyprus.
Embria is an international startup builder and investor headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus, founded in 2007. The firm finds, funds, and grows technology companies from the ground up, with a focus on mobile gaming, wellness, AdTech, social platforms, and marketing technology. Embria has co-founded and invested in over 20 portfolio companies with more than 2,000 team members globally, including HypeAuditor and AdTech Holding. The company also maintains offices in Finland.
Exness is a Limassol-headquartered retail CFD and forex broker that has quietly become one of the largest trading venues in the world by monthly volume, routinely reporting trillions of dollars in turnover from retail and professional clients across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The company operates a proprietary matching and risk-management stack, auto-executes deposits and withdrawals for most of its payment methods, and is regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) in the EU, the FCA in the UK, and a mesh of tier-two regulators covering its non-EU corridors. Founded in 2008 by a small team of Russian-origin quants who chose Cyprus for its EU/MiFID access and English-speaking talent pool, Exness today employs over 2,000 people and is the anchor tenant of the Limassol fintech cluster that also includes crypto exchanges, prop shops, and several CFD challengers. In the European ecosystem it is the most commercially successful Cypriot financial-services company and a useful anchor for understanding why Limassol became a global retail-trading hub.
Fawzi Goussous is the Founder and CEO of Qualia Solutions, an award-winning AI company delivering custom AI agents, voice assistants, and business automation solutions. He leads a team focused on practical AI deployments for enterprise clients across Cyprus and the broader MENA region. He is a confirmed speaker at the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, where he presents on applied AI deployment and intelligent automation for business.
Finery Markets is a Limassol-based institutional crypto trading infrastructure company, founded in 2019 by Konstantin Shulga and Ilia Drozdov. The platform operates as a non-custodial, over-the-counter ECN connecting crypto businesses to deep liquidity pools across 200+ crypto and fiat currency pairs. In Q2 2024, the platform processed over $5 billion in trading volume, serving clients in 35+ countries. The company raised $5.5 million in seed funding in 2022 from investors including G1Ventures, gumi Cryptos, and Shima Capital.
Gravity Ventures is a deep-tech startup incubator and venture builder based in Nicosia, operated by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Centre (CyRIC). Founded in 2016, it is described as the only deep-tech incubator in Cyprus, supporting startups in robotics, AI, IoT, photonics, advanced manufacturing, and MedTech. The programme covers idea validation, product design, prototyping, mentoring, commercialisation, IP protection, and funding access. Gravity Ventures has incubated 18 startups and invested over €10 million across its portfolio.
Chief Compliance Officer at ECOMMBX and a leader of the ACAMS Cyprus Chapter, specialising in financial compliance and anti-money-laundering. He is an announced speaker at the Digital Assets and the Future of Finance Summit 2026 in Cyprus.
IDEA Innovation Center is the largest non-profit incubator-accelerator for startups in Cyprus, established in 2015 by the Bank of Cyprus and partner organisations. Its nine-month Startup Program provides participants with €20,000 in seed capital, structured business training, mentoring from experienced entrepreneurs, and professional services in legal, accounting, and ICT. Since its launch, IDEA has supported over 82 startups, trained more than 5,000 entrepreneurs, and invested over €4 million into the Cyprus innovation ecosystem. It was recognised as the European Winner in the 2019 European Commission Enterprise Promotion Awards.
Premier online trading and fintech expo at City of Dreams Mediterranean, drawing 6,500+ attendees, 200+ exhibitors and 100+ speakers from over 120 countries across brokerage, payments and trading-tech.
Economist at Bocconi University and SAFE, and a former member of the ECB Supervisory Board, specialising in banking and monetary policy. He is an announced speaker at the Digital Assets and the Future of Finance Summit 2026 in Cyprus.
Technology executive at Dell Technologies focused on enterprise infrastructure and digital transformation. He is an announced speaker at the 5th Digital Cyprus Conference 2026 in Nicosia.
One of Cyprus's leading business event and media organisations, running a large calendar of conferences, forums and summits across finance, technology, shipping and entrepreneurship. Its flagship gatherings include the INSPIRE entrepreneurial festival and the Digital Assets and the Future of Finance Summit.
A two-day open-air entrepreneurship festival on Makariou Avenue in central Nicosia with multiple themed stages covering startup funding, global expansion, innovation, the future of work, AI and ESG. It mixes keynotes, panels and fireside chats with networking zones, podcast studios and a tech showcase, with free admission on registration.
Kinisis Ventures was co-founded in 2018 by Andreas Panayi and Yiannos Georgiades as a Cyprus-US bridge accelerator and investment firm, with its registered office in Nicosia. Its regulated KV Kinisis Ventures Fund RAIF VCIC (KV Fund I and II), managed in partnership with AIFCAP Managers and licensed by CySEC, is the first CySEC-registered early-stage VC focused exclusively on Cypriot technology companies targeting US market expansion. The fund writes seed tickets of €1.5M–€4M in cybersecurity, fintech, AI-enabled platforms, and energy-tech, with portfolio companies including Threedium (3D imaging), Phase3D (metal-printing quality assurance), and Autonomics Tech (autonomous industrial robotics).
Executive at Bitwise Europe, a digital-asset investment manager, focused on crypto investment products. She is an announced speaker at the Digital Assets and the Future of Finance Summit 2026 in Cyprus.
Malloc is a Nicosia-based AI-driven mobile cybersecurity company, founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator (YC S21), Urban Innovation Fund, and Dragon Capital. The company develops on-device protection against spyware, surveillance, and data theft for individuals, enterprises, and government agencies, with over one million users worldwide. Its flagship product, Antistalker, detects and blocks unauthorised microphone and camera access in real time. Malloc collaborates with NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and VISA on privacy and AI-based defence research.
Technology specialist at Google working on cloud and AI solutions. He is an announced speaker at the 5th Digital Cyprus Conference 2026 in Nicosia.
Executive at CITEA, the Cyprus Information Technology Enterprises Association, supporting the country's tech ecosystem. She is an announced speaker at the 5th Digital Cyprus Conference 2026.
Nexters is a Limassol-headquartered mid-core mobile games publisher best known for Hero Wars, a long-running RPG that at its peak was one of the highest-grossing role-playing games on iOS and Android worldwide and popularized the now-ubiquitous 'puzzle in the ad, different game inside' marketing pattern. The company runs a portfolio of live-ops titles, relies on heavy user-acquisition and A/B testing in-house, and operates from Cyprus as a talent and operational hub following the 2020-2022 wave of games-industry migration into Limassol. In 2021 Nexters went public on Nasdaq via a SPAC combination at a valuation north of USD 1.5 billion, making it one of the very few Cyprus-listed consumer-tech exits on a major US exchange. For the directory it represents the scale of the Limassol mobile-gaming cluster that grew up around Wargaming and has since attracted dozens of studios and publishers.
Nucleus Ventures is a venture building and corporate innovation advisory firm based in Cyprus, founded in 2014. It offers services including venture building, fundraising, soft-landing support for international market entry, operational advisory, and capacity building programmes. The firm serves governments, corporations, and founders across the EMENA region, with particular experience in FinTech, HealthTech, and AI. Nucleus Ventures has also managed government-backed accelerator and seed fund programmes.
Palta is a Cyprus-based venture studio focused on consumer health and wellness applications built around subscription economics. Rather than acting as a passive investor, it helps create and scale products by centralizing growth, product, marketing, and monetization capabilities that individual app teams would struggle to build alone in the early stages. That model is especially effective in mobile health categories where onboarding, retention, experimentation cadence, and paid acquisition are central to company outcomes. In the European ecosystem, Palta stands out because it applies venture-building discipline to consumer health software rather than to generalist B2B startups. It is therefore a useful counterpart to broader venture builders in the directory while also connecting to wearable and digital-health companies through its category focus. Palta expands the directory's picture of how consumer health businesses are incubated and scaled, especially when the core advantage lies in mobile growth systems rather than in proprietary hardware.
Plug and Play Cyprus is the first Cyprus location of Plug and Play, the Silicon Valley-based global innovation platform, launched in Limassol in April 2026. The programme is co-funded by the Republic of Cyprus through the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy and the Research and Innovation Foundation. It plans to run six cycles of incubation and acceleration targeting fintech, regtech, gaming, and shipping and energy, aiming to support around 60 startups and create approximately 500 jobs. Corporate partners include ASBIS, Tototheo, Mastercard, and ECOMMBX.
PwC Cyprus runs a dedicated startup support programme that provides early-stage technology companies with advisory services spanning tax structuring, audit readiness, legal compliance, and go-to-market strategy for the EU single market. The programme leverages Cyprus's favorable corporate tax regime and EU membership to help startups establish efficient holding and operational structures for scaling across Europe and the Middle East. It represents an important piece of the Cypriot startup infrastructure by connecting founders with professional services expertise that is otherwise hard to access at the early stage.
The largest tech and startup festival in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, attracting 3,000+ attendees to Limassol. Features a startup pitch competition, exhibitions, and deep-dive tracks on AI, sustainability, and Web3. Strong participation from MENA and European ecosystems, reflecting Cyprus's position as a bridge between continents. Tickets from EUR 100-300.
Technology leader at Amazon working on cloud and enterprise solutions. He is an announced speaker at the 5th Digital Cyprus Conference 2026 in Nicosia.
Skyrocket Marketers is a Cyprus-based digital marketing agency providing SEO, social media management, and web design solutions for entrepreneurs and corporations. Operating from offices in both Limassol and Nicosia, the agency emphasises practical, transparent digital strategy. The agency is the official organizer of the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, a three-day conference held at UCLan Cyprus University in Larnaca in July 2026.
Sotirios Makrygiannis is a former senior Nokia executive who founded AIA Lab, an artificial intelligence advisory firm focused on helping organisations adopt and scale AI strategies. With decades of experience driving technology and innovation at a globally recognised telecommunications company, he now advises enterprises and startups on AI growth strategy and organisational transformation. He is a confirmed speaker at the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, contributing expertise in large-scale technology transformation and AI adoption.
Spotware Systems is a B2B fintech company founded in 2010 in Limassol, Cyprus, and the creator of the cTrader trading platform for CFD and FX brokers. As of 2025, cTrader serves over 11 million traders and added 2 million new traders in that year alone, with 104% year-on-year growth in trading volume. The company's product suite also includes cBridge, a platform-agnostic liquidity bridge connecting MT4, MT5, and cTrader to multiple liquidity providers. Spotware employs 200+ professionals across 30+ nationalities.
Startup Cyprus is the national startup association of Cyprus, founded in February 2016 by 13 startup founders and ecosystem figures. It is a founding member of the European Startup Network, the pan-European body of national startup associations. The organisation engages in policy advocacy at national and EU level, and organises events including Startup Academy Cyprus, Startup Live, Startup Weekend, and founders meetups. It represents the interests of Cypriot startups within the broader European ecosystem.
Two-day startup summit at IT Warehouse Limassol focused on cross-border growth, connecting Cyprus and European founders, investors and support organisations through pitching, panels and matchmaking.
Wargaming is a Nicosia-headquartered game developer and publisher best known for the massively multiplayer online titles World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Warplanes, which together have accumulated hundreds of millions of registered accounts and defined the mid-2010s hardcore free-to-play category. Founded in 1998 in Minsk as a small strategy-game studio, the company moved its commercial headquarters to Cyprus in the 2010s for EU access and favorable IP treatment, and in 2022 shut its Russian and Belarusian operations entirely following the invasion of Ukraine, transferring the CIS business to a local licensee and concentrating development and live operations in Nicosia, Vilnius, Prague, Chicago, Austin, and Belgrade. Wargaming pioneered the free-to-play model for military simulation games, built its own proprietary engine and live-ops tooling, and runs one of the largest esports programs in the sector. In the European ecosystem it is the anchor of the Cypriot gaming cluster and a useful case study of a Minsk-origin studio reconstituting itself entirely outside the post-Soviet space.
A B2B games-industry conference held at Parklane, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, serving one of Europe's largest game-dev hubs in Cyprus. It features off-record curated roundtables, a free Developer Showcase where teams pitch to publishers and investors, an expo, workshops and a beach networking party.
International games-industry media and events company behind the WN Conference series and the WN Hub networking platform. It runs B2B game-development conferences worldwide, including the Cyprus edition that connects studios, publishers, service providers and investors.
A free city-scale festival blending an edutainment fair, an education summit, hackathons, and a startup contest. An ecosystem and talent-pipeline event — relevant for founders recruiting young technical talent or running edtech and STEM products in Cyprus.