University of Cyprus · Computer Science

Meet Team
Grongo.

Building fintech with bite.

We’re a student-led team bringing together engineering, analytics, and product design to build new tools for fintech and banking.

GRONGO / 00135° N · 33° E

Meet the team.

Team Grongo is rooted at the University of Cyprus.

The Co-Dinos!

  • Alexandros Christinakis Product Designer ↗
  • Christoforos Kontzias Backend Engineer ↗
  • Ioannis Anastasi Data Analytics ↗
  • Marinos Antoniou Business Expert ↗
  • Marios Panayiotou Database Expert ↗
  • Styliana Marinou Marketing Support

Our expertise.

We bring software engineering, data analytics, product design, and business insight to problems in fintech and banking.

Data analytics & databases

Data-driven suggestions

We turn data into useful next steps. For example, Finctual uses ratings, average scores, and the number of graded calls to help visitors decide which creators to compare.

Artificial intelligence

AI agents

We build agents that help people ask questions about their data. In Finctual, Grongo can explain the leaderboard or look up an individual creator’s record.

Software engineering & product design

Interactive maps

Explore places, routes, and data by location. We build map interfaces with searchable points, filters, and details you can open directly from the map.

Customer experience · Example workflow

Customer service

We build support tools that help customers find answers and give teams a place to triage requests, assign them, and follow up.

From hackathon
to grand prize.

Our team won the Keep Money Safe track at the 24-hour iFX Hack. We then presented Finctual on the Mastery Hub stage in Limassol, where Team Grongo was named the overall winner.

Team Grongo on the iFX EXPO stage with the grand prize cheque
iFX EXPO International · June 2026 Overall Winner Powered by AWS
Team Grongo in matching shirts at the University of Limassol hackathon
iFX Hack · June 2026 Keep Money Safe Winner Powered by AWS
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Our projects.

We turn ideas into working tools and explore how technology can solve problems in financial services.

Fintech · Featured project

Finctual: Evaluating public trading calls

Finctual takes a public trade call, extracts the claim, and checks it against real market data. The result is a grade and a receipt that shows how it was scored.

Open Finctual
finctual.com
Grongo holding a pencil and a graded receipt
Grongo from Finctual’s trade grading screen