Cyprus startup ecosystem
The directory currently lists 54 organisations across 3 cities.
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Dr. Symeon Kassianides
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.
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Embria
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.
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Exness
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.
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Fawzi Goussous
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.
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Finery Markets
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.
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Gravity Ventures
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.
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Gregory Dellas
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.
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IDEA Innovation Center
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.
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iFX EXPO International 2026
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.
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Ignazio Angeloni
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.
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Ihab El Ghazzawi
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.
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IMH (International Management House)
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.
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INSPIRE 2026 Entrepreneurial Festival (October 2026)
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.
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Kinisis Ventures
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).
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Leyla Sharifullina
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.
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Malloc
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.
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Marios Anastasiou
Technology specialist at Google working on cloud and AI solutions. He is an announced speaker at the 5th Digital Cyprus Conference 2026 in Nicosia.
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Matina Zisiadou
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.
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Nexters
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.
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Nucleus Ventures
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.
