Panis Pieri

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’...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On October 19, Panis.News in collaboration with GrantXpert and Future Skills Hub brings business leaders together at European University Cyprus for an evening focused on practical AI conversations. Picture the ...

Cyprus has spent years talking about becoming an innovation economy. If the country wants to make that transition, research and innovation can no longer be treated as a secondary area ...

The strategy is stronger than a typical policy vision document. It understands Cyprus’s structural weaknesses and proposes institutions, infrastructure, sector-specific applications and governance mechanisms.  Its central weakness is execution ...

Founder Institute and Plug and Play Centre enter the market Cyprus is entering a new phase in its startup evolution. Two global platforms are now establishing a presence on the ...

Cyprus is preparing to accelerate its startup ecosystem with the launch of the Plug and Play accelerator programme, a three-year initiative designed to support early-stage companies, connect them with global ...

Cyprus is emerging as one of Europe’s fastest-growing innovation hubs. Startups founded on the island are building global products, attracting international investment and expanding into markets far beyond the ...

Public funding, new research centres and a growing venture capital scene have changed the landscape of the Cyprus startup and innovation scene. Startups are gaining visibility abroad. International investors are ...

We had an interesting interview with the Chief Scientist of the Republic of Cyprus and Chairman of the Research and Innovation Foundation, Demetris Skourides, who also chairs the National AI ...

In late January 2026, Moltbook started circulating as a “social network for AI agents,” with humans “welcome to observe.” The pitch is simple. Agents post. Agents comment. Agents upvote. Humans watch. ...

Eurostat data shows Cyprus has seen rapid growth in ICT employment over the past decade, with the strongest gains among women. A Cyprus Mail report, citing Eurostat, puts average annual ...

Cyprus is no longer a quiet player in innovation. It is now ranked among the top 25 countries in the Global Innovation Index and sits within the world’s top 40 startup ...

Research and Innovation Foundation boosted Cyprus’ presence at Slush 2025 with a 14-startup delegation Cyprus made a strong return to Slush 2025, entering Europe’s most concentrated tech event with a larger ...

Walking into Messukeskus on the first morning of Slush 2025 you feel the pace before you see it. The lights are low. The stages are loud. The queues for startup booths, ...

The Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) is leading a national delegation of 13 startups to Slush 2025 in Helsinki, one of the world’s most influential gatherings for founders and investors. This ...

In shipping, minutes matter. What once took days of phone calls, couriered documents and manual verification now takes minutes on a shared, tamper-proof ledger. That ledger is blockchain. Shipping is ...

Shipping moves about 80 per cent of world trade by volume. Efficiency gains matter at system level. The sector emits roughly 3 per cent of global CO₂, while facing rising costs and ...

Invest Cyprus is positioning the island as a leading technology investment hub through strategic partnerships, targeted incentives, and a strong focus on innovation and digital transformation. In this interview with ...