Jon Vlachogiannis

Jon Vlachogiannis (born 1981) is a Greek entrepreneur, software engineer, and angel investor, best known for founding the tech company Bugsense, the European fund ZeroFund, and the programming language Music-As-Data (MAD). Since 2009, Jon has been involved in various funded Startups as a software architect, like Grebooca that was funded by Facebook in 2009 and as a co-founder of AgentRisk. He has given numerous presentations about startups, engineering, the blockchain, and finance.
Education
Jon was born in 1981 in Athens, Greece and studied computer science at the Piraeus University of Applied Sciences.
Career
John has been very active in the startup scene and he has been included two times in the 40 under '40s in the Fortune Greece magazine, in 2014 with his company Bugsense and in 2016 with his new company AgentRisk.
He has been very loud regarding governments' fiscal responsibility and he explained at BBC that "with Greece having to greatly reduce the size of its public sector, it will inevitably lead to an increase in entrepreneurship and growth in the number of private companies as people are forced to be more creative and innovative". In 2015, while Greece was under capital controls he repurposed his venture fund, ZeroFund, in order to help Greek Startups during the capital controls and pay for services outside of Greece. Jon has been a proponent of having US companies moving their R&D in Europe and said in BBC Business.

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