Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Andreas Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur, who works on bitcoin. As an engaging public speaker, teacher, and writer, he makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. As an advisor, he helps startups recognize, evaluate, and navigate security and business risks.

Andreas Antonopoulos started his first company, an early BBS and proto-ISP, as a teenager in his home in Greece. After moving to the U.S., he co-founded and managed a technology research company, and in that role advised dozens of Fortune 500 company executives on networking, security, data centers, and cloud computing. More than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide. He holds 2 patents in networking and security.

In 1990, Andreas Antonopoulos started teaching on various IT topics in private, professional, and academic environments. He is also a public speaker and teacher. In 2014, he was appointed as a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, the first university in the world to offer a Masters Degree in Digital Currency. In this role, he helped to develop the curriculum and co-taught the Introduction to Digital Currencies course, offered as a MOOC, through the University.

As a bitcoin entrepreneur, Andreas Antonopoulos has founded a number of bitcoin businesses and launched several community open-source projects. He serves as an advisor to several bitcoin and crypto-currency companies. He is an author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin, is a permanent host on the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast, and a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide.

Andreas Antonopoulos earned degrees in computer science, data communications, and distributed systems from University College London, recently ranked in the world’s top 10 universities. He currently resides in San Francisco.