Cyprus 4.0

For founders in Cyprus, turning an idea into a business involves more than developing a product. It means testing demand, protecting intellectual property and finding customers and funding. The island’...

Cyprus’ startup ecosystem is supported by a mix of venture capital funds, crowdfunding platforms, corporate investors and accelerators, each addressing different obstacles facing young businesses, from securing early funding to ...

What began in 2019 as an initiative to bring traditional games into the digital age has evolved into a Cyprus-based gaming company with ambitions extending well beyond the island. Founded by ...

Before GetOffers.com, I worked in travel tech for several years. I started in customer support and later moved into sales. In both roles, I kept hearing the same complaints ...

Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape the legal profession, with law firms increasingly exploring how emerging technologies can improve research, document analysis and other aspects of legal work without compromising ...

We started Exyde as a marketplace for activities and experiences. It taught us how operators work, but it was a crowded market where building a real edge would be hard. ...

EMBIO Diagnostics CEO Constantinos Loizou discusses demand for portable testing, the international expansion of airbeld™ and the development of RapidX. In this interview, he explains how the Cypriot company is ...

Most brands still buy influencer marketing the way they bought billboards in the nineties. They pick a face, pay a fee and hope the post lands. The report that follows ...

What problem does DART solve for employers and jobseekers in Cyprus? Take us through one hire from the first call to the person starting work. DART Recruitment helps reduce the ...

Alexander Gromov explains why Europe’s savings market remains fragmented, how PickTheBank gives customers access to licensed banks and higher savings rates without holding their money, and why Cyprus is ...

In this interview, Redox One outlines its technology, progress towards commercial deployment and international ambitions. It also explains why Cyprus, home to its headquarters, could become an early market and ...

Cyprus has the potential to become a regional innovation hub, but turning that ambition into globally successful companies will require startups to look beyond the domestic market, stronger corporate partnerships ...

Cyprus may still be an unlikely place to build a biotechnology company, but Dr Marianna Prokopi-Demetriades, co-founder and director of Theramir, is increasingly convinced that this is precisely what gives ...

Just two months after launching i spy, Cypriot founder and CEO Nicole Georgiou is already seeing signs that the way people discover fashion online may be changing faster than the ...

MyStudentFlat is the first Cypriot PropTech startup of its kind, focusing on the provision of high-quality, fully furnished and fully equipped student apartments near the most popular universities, available for ...

What began as a privacy app for people worried about spyware secretly listening on them or stealing their personal data from their phones, has grown into something far more ambitious. ...

For most people, artificial intelligence still lives inside a box. You type, it answers. Ruslan Synytsky wants to move that experience beyond the chat window and give it a face, ...

Through ANIMA’s extensive work across Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Africa, how do you see the startup and innovation landscape evolving across these regions, and where are ...

By Eli David Rokah, CEO StartupBlink Cyprus has long sold itself on sunshine, coastline, and a relaxed pace of life. And while those assets remain, an equally promising story is ...

Cyprus has spent the past decade building an innovation ecosystem. For Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) Director General Theodoros Loukaidis, the next test is whether that ecosystem can now produce ...

Interview with Marios Tannousis, Invest Cyprus Cyprus has proved it can attract international technology companies. The bigger challenge now is turning that success into businesses that are built, funded and ...

Cyprus’ startup and innovation ecosystem is entering a more consequential phase, with government, investors, researchers, universities and private-sector organisations increasingly working to turn years of investment and ambition into a ...

Cyprus’ property market is evolving beyond a single national narrative, with regional differences, affordability pressures and changing buyer priorities increasingly defining its direction. At the same time, policymakers and industry ...

Cyprus’ real estate sector has entered a defining period. Demand is no longer shaped only by location, square metres or proximity to the sea. Today’s buyers, residents and investors ...