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Fahri Diner and the trouble with the last two metres
He helped send light across continents, then found the internet falling short inside the house. The Plume co-founder’s next chapter returns to photonics, with a vineyard and some formidable bicycle rides along the way.
John Sergides and the business of staying
The MUFG Investor Services CEO built his career around the machinery behind investing. His next wager is on broader services, patient relationships and a place that feels like home.
Omilia
For 24 years Omilia has been trying to kill the phone menu. Now, with $67 million in fresh funding and a billion conversations a year running through its systems, the Cyprus-born company is betting that the future of customer service sounds less like a robot and more like a person who already knows why you called.
Sabah Oney
Sabah Oney is the president and CEO of Dispatch Bio, a Philadelphia- and San Francisco-based biotech engineering a universal treatment for solid tumors using CAR-T cell therapy. Born in Cyprus and in the U.S. since age 18, he holds a genetics degree from the University of Kansas, a PhD in genetics and genomics from Duke, and an MBA from Stanford. Across nearly two decades in biotech he helped scale Ariosa Diagnostics (acquired by Roche), took Alector public as its chief business officer, co-founded Vilya, and served as a venture partner at ARCH. Dispatch launched publicly in 2025 with $216 million behind its FLARE platform and CAR-T pioneer Carl June among its founders.
Prosperty
Prosperty is a Greek proptech company that digitizes the full real estate lifecycle - buying, selling, renting and managing property - through an end-to-end, tech-enabled platform. Founded in Athens in 2020, it combines property data, virtual tours, drone imagery, legal and technical checks, mortgage support and portfolio management tools to serve both individual consumers and institutional players such as banks, asset managers and developers. Its B2C platforms draw over 800,000 monthly visitors and host more than 12,000 active listings, and in April 2025 it closed a EUR 5.5M Series A led by Eurobank, which took a 25% stake in Prosperty RE Ltd.