Deal flow, verified at the source.
Capital already flows into Cyprus. Very little of it ends up building companies here. FAROS exists to close that distance — a verified map of who is actually building on this island, and warm introductions to the ones worth your time.
Cyprus ranks first worldwide for VC co-participation per unit of GDP, and has been the fastest-climbing ecosystem in the EU for three years running. What it has never had is a single place to find the founders.
Deal-flow & capital
Warm introductions to the right investors, angel networks and funding programmes — RIF, THALIA and the Cyprus Equity Fund among them.
Re-allocation
Helping founders, investors and skilled professionals actually relocate to Cyprus and make sense of the incentives below — which tax route applies, which visa route fits, and which of our own network already made the move.
[RESOLVE — these contradict each other.] Your one-pager says: “Paid on commission when the match closes, not on membership.” You told me FAROS is “a subscription service that connects the investor to the founder.” Commission, subscription, or both? Whichever it is goes here, in plain language, with the price.
Since January 2026, Cyprus has carried some of the most competitive tax and residency terms in Europe.
- Corporate tax rate
- 15%
- Crypto & approved stock option gains
- 8% flat
- Stock option cap / vesting
- €1m / 10yr, 3yr min
- IP Box effective rate
- 2.5 to 3%
- Non-dom regime (dividends, interest)
- 0%, 17yr
- R&D super-deduction (to 2030)
- 120%
- Notional interest deduction
- on new equity
- Standard VAT
- 19%
- Digital Nomad Visa cap
- 1,000 permits
- EU ecosystem growth rank
- fastest-climbing, 3yr
- VC co-participation per GDP
- #1 worldwide
- Founder-support programmes
- ~15, no registry
Sources: Cyprus Income Tax Law Article 20E (reform of 22 Dec 2025), StartupBlink Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2026, WIPO Global Innovation Index 2026.
It is unacceptable that a developed EU country has produced no unicorn. We intend to change that.
[FACT CHECK — an investor will push back on this within seconds.] Wargaming, Exness and XM are all Cyprus-domiciled and very large. The claim needs a qualifier that survives contact — something like “no unicorn founded and scaled here” — or it hands the room an easy rebuttal.