Explore startups, investors, and ecosystem operators in Limassol, Cyprus.
20 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.