TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEUR & INVESTOR
Nicolas is an award-winning technology entrepreneur and investor who has spent more than three decades founding, scaling and investing in disruptive technology ventures.
From pioneering one of the world's first digital currencies with Beenz.com to co-founding Opodo, one of Europe's leading online travel companies, he has consistently anticipated major technological shifts.
Today, he backs visionary founders and breakthrough technologies, helping build the enterprises that will define the next era of innovation.
Opodo.com
Building a €1.2 billion revenue travel giant during a global crisis.
Nicolas co-founded Opodo.com, the European online travel company, alongside Europe’s global airlines, disrupting the tourism and travel industry. As Chief of Strategy, Marketing, and Sales, he launched Opodo during one of the most challenging periods in the history of the airline and travel industry—the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Beenz
The First Digital Currency of the Internet.
Nicolas De Santis was both an investor and the Chief Marketing Officer of Beenz.com, where he played a pivotal role in raising nearly $100 million in capital. Discover the remarkable story of how he created and launched the Beenz brand—years before cryptocurrencies—and the unprecedented regulatory, management, and governance challenges the company faced. Read the Story on Substack.
