In this episode of the FemPowered Islands Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Maria Terzi, Co-Founder and CEO of Malloc, a Cyprus-based, AI-driven cybersecurity startup protecting users’ privacy and mobile security, and the first Cypriot startup to join Y Combinator. Maria shares her journey from computer science and machine learning into founding an internationally recognised startup, the realities of being a female founder in tech, and the resilience, innovation, and leadership lessons she’s picked up along the way.