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Seven funding rounds closed in Cyprus between January and April 2026. AI hiring tools, autonomous cleaning robots, stablecoin payment rails. The capital is real. The question is whether the infrastructure underneath these companies is being built at the same pace as the fundraising.
A Spanish freelancer with 80,000 euros in net income saves between 24,000 and 28,000 euros per year by relocating to Cyprus. What nobody is documenting is what happens to the digital infrastructure when the company crosses the regulatory border.
NIS2 was supposed to be about large operators. In practice, it is being enforced through commercial relationships. Pharmaceutical manufacturers are pushing compliance questionnaires to their distributors. The regulated entity is now the auditor.