Dimitris Tsingos

Dimitris Tsingos at the European Young Leaders
(EYL40) Program Lisbon Seminar in March 2017

Dimitris Tsingos is a serial tech entrepreneur and early stage investor from Aspropyrgos, Greece. 

He's the Founder and CEO of Starttech Ventures, a private venture builder and seed investor in Athens, Greece. In this capacity, he is the co-founder and President at Epignosis, Yodeck, Cycleops, Testilio, Veturilo, DreamClass, ScienceTraining and Project Epsilon. Moreover, he was Co-founder and President at AbZorba Games, a mobile gaming acquired by Novomatic in February 2015. 

Being a passionate European federalist, Dimitris has initiated Movimento Insieme for the European Federal Union while he has also been one of the Rome Manifesto co-authors. Moreover, he is the co-founder of HeBAN - Hellenic Business Angel Network and he has also been the President of YES for Europe - European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs [2011-2015], the Founder & President of the Hellenic Start-up Association [2011-2014], the President at the Hellenic Union of Computer Scientists and Engineers [2007-2010], the President of the EU Delegation to the G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance [2011-2015], the President of the Hellenic Federation of Young Entrepreneurs [2008-2011] as well as a Board Member at EBAN - The European Business Angel Network [2014-17] and at the Hellenic Association of Mobile Application Companies [2016-2018]. Last, in 2019 Dimitris launched the Scale-up Greece community.

Dimitris is a Marshall Memorial Fellow [2018], a Fellow of "l’Institut des Hautes Etudes pour l’Innovation et l’Entrepreneuriat" of the PSL University in Paris [2018-2019], an alumnus of the US State Department International Visitor Leadership Program - IVLP [2013], and an alumnus of the European Young Leaders program [2012-2013].

He received his Computer Science diploma from University of Crete [2002] and his MBA from Athens University of Economics & Business [2005]. He was undergrad guest researcher at Computational Vision & Active Perception Laboratory of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [1998] and member of the Networks & Telecommunications Research Group at the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH [1999, 2000]. 

Dimitris is native in Greek, fluent in English and conversational in French. He loves Computer Science, Mathematics and Contemporary Management and he's a Philosophy and Psychology aficionado. As a teenager, he was a Judo athlete, having won a bronze medal in a nation-wide championship in 1993 at the age of 16. Around the age of forty, he became interested in endurance training and managed to finish Marathon de Paris 2018 as well as the Athens Authentic Marathon 2018 and an 180km cycling race as a relay-team member at Tallinn IRONMAN 2018.