Alkiviadis Pananakakis

Call me Alkis. Bonus points if you pronounce the whole thing on the first try.

Some things about me:

Born in Athens, Greece. Nurtured by American exceptionalism, technology and culture
Currently live in San Francisco
Two passions: Tech and the USA
3x founder
Built a social app in college that reached Top 5 on the App Store
Got accepted for an EB1-A Green Card, the one for extraordinary ability
Bootstrapped a design engineering studio to seven figures without raising a dollar

What I'm working on

I'm building a personal agent that creates personalized software with custom UIs.

What interests me is how people and AI agents interact. It's more than just chat.

Things I loved building

Agora — AI-Powered Live Debate Platform

Founded and built a live debate platform powered by an AI voice host that can moderate conversations in real-time — fact-checking claims, guiding discussion, asking follow-ups, and enforcing rules.

Fortune 500 B2B Commerce Ecosystem

Led frontend and design engineering across internal tools moving $1B+ a year — halved system design time and earned the highest user satisfaction score of any tool in Daikin's history.

Autonomous Surgical Interface (YC S23)

Designed the first tablet interface for the world's first autonomous surgical robot — a controller used by surgeons to manipulate the robot and monitor a live camera feed during the historic first robotic-assisted HoLEP procedure.

Wellness B2B & B2C Platform

As the sole designer, I built the entire product experience from MVP to scale — a consumer app that grew to 50k+ users and a retail platform deployed to 100+ stores, supporting a $10M Series A.

Reward-Based Screen Time App

Designed and developed a mobile app from zero to launch that turns screen time into something kids earn — parents set quests, kids complete them for coins, and coins buy screen time.

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