{"id":4462,"date":"2026-03-31T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicosiaeconomiccongress.imhbusiness.com\/?post_type=people&#038;p=4462"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:35:03","slug":"stavriana-a-kofteros","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/nicosiaeconomiccongress.imhbusiness.com\/en\/people\/stavriana-a-kofteros\/","title":{"rendered":"\u03a3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c5\u03c1\u03b9\u03ac\u03bd\u03b1 \u0391. \u039a\u03bf\u03c6\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03cc\u03c2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stavriana Kofteros is a Founding Partner of W11 Ventures, a unique boutique growth and innovation advisory and venture friend.\u00a0\u00a0She is an Investment Advisor to deeptech VC and FO funds, a member of the Investment Jury Committee of the European Innovation Council (EIC Fund \u20ac10bn) for European deeptech startups since its beginning, an EIC Ambassador and a NED Board Mentor to EIC Scaling Club New Biotech Platform startups. Stavriana has been active in the European startup ecosystem, as Cofounder and Chair of Startup Cyprus, a member of EU\u2019s Innovation Ecosystem Leaders Group, member of the European Digital Leaders Network of WEF, and a member of the Innovation Advisory Board of the Biosense Institute in Serbia. She is a Cofounder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/europeanstartups.org\/\">European Startup Network<\/a>, and has served as Vice Chair and a member of the Transatlantic Council of Allied for Startups, Brussels-based startup advocacy organizations. She is on the Global Advisory Council of G100 for the wing of Humanity, Technology, and Innovation, and the former Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Research Innovation Foundation, the national Research and Innovation fund of Cyprus. She is experienced in startup support on C-Executive and Board roles and\u00a0deeptech investments\u00a0with positions in deeptech startups.\u00a0She holds degrees in Business Administration and Political Science (ULV) and Certificates in Entrepreneurship Development (MIT-Fulbright Scholar), Corporate Finance (Columbiax), and Venture Capital (EVCA).<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4463,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[53],"class_list":["post-4462","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nicosia-economic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicosiaeconomiccongress.imhbusiness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicosiaeconomiccongress.imhbusiness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicosiaeconomiccongress.imhbusiness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicosiaeconomiccongress.imhbusiness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicosiaeconomiccongress.imhbusiness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicosiaeconomiccongress.imhbusiness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}