Summary
Panos Papadopoulos is a software engineer-turned-founder-turned-VC with 16 years of experience, currently a Partner at Marathon VC investing across sectors with a strong preference for DevTools. He co-founded BugSense, scaling its SDK to 400M+ device installs and Fortune 500 customers before its acquisition by Splunk, then led product integration at Splunk to bring mobile performance into a Big Data monitoring platform. Based in Athens, he combines hands-on engineering roots with board and advisory roles across AI robotics, cloud accelerators, edge monitoring and energy grid tech, helping startups shape GTM, recruiting and follow-on funding. An organizer of developer communities and a student of crypto, he brings both operator empathy and technical judgment to early-stage investments. Notably, his background spans building scalable microservices and developer-facing SDKs to guiding companies that turn ML and FPGA IP into production-grade products.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Athens University of Economics and Business
Erasmus, Computer Science, Erasmus, Computer Science at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Master of Science (MSc), Digital Currencies, Master of Science (MSc), Digital Currencies at University of Nicosia
Spanish, French, Greek, English