Nikos Drandakis is an entrepreneur and founder of Taxibeat, a leading mobile taxi application, which allows users to choose and hail their taxi driver electronically, without phone calls. 

With a technical background as a programmer and an entrepreneurial nature, Nikos founded his first tech startup in the late ‘90s with Suppline.com, a B2B marketplace for businesses to be able to order their supplies online. 2 years later, suppline.com was sold and on 2006 Nikos, along with 2 co-founders launched sync.gr, a blogs aggregator and social networking app for bloggers focused in Greece. 

In 2011, Nikos with 3 co-founders launched Taxibeat, receiving a seed funding round from the Openfund, with subsequent rounds that total $7m. On February 2017 Taxibeat was acquired by MyTaxi, a Daimler AG subsidiary. It was rebranded under “Beat” and is continuing its expansion in Latin America. It is currently operating its ridesharing service in Peru, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, with further expansion plans to be deployed soon.