Antonis Ioannou
Founder and product leader.
- Co-founder, Head of Product, ZuZu
- Past work for Techstars, Google, and Honda
- USC Iovine and Young Academy, B.S. and M.S.
Work
ZuZu
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Superfan app where indie musicians run paid fan communities
- Co-founder, Head of Product
- Aug 2026 – Present
Techstars
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Rebuilt a portfolio company's web platform, CRM, and support stack
- Product and Growth Intern
- Mar 2026 – Jun 2026
Drafted
- Product Engineering Intern
- Jun 2026 – Jul 2026
Techstars-backed AI data-labeling platform
- Shipped a UX overhaul of the AI-training Lab, merged to main: swapped a full-screen WebGL background for a GPU-cheaper one that respects reduced motion and pauses when backgrounded.
- Built the Lab's first mobile-usable version: a touch-native input in place of a desktop-only code editor.
- Built the foundation of the company's first design system: semantic tokens as JS and CSS variables, a reusable Surface primitive, and a live token gallery, replacing 1,000+ hardcoded color values.
- Authored debugging tasks for Snorkel AI's Terminal-Bench 2.0, used to evaluate frontier coding models: a Dockerized challenge, a pytest suite, and an oracle fix script.
- Next.js, Python, pytest, Docker, Claude Code.
UnitZero
- Angel investor
- Jul 2026
Embodied AI infrastructure
- Invested in UnitZero's $9M seed round.
- UnitZero builds the infrastructure that teaches machines to act in the physical world, from gathering real-world experience to running on-device reinforcement learning.
- Its researchers and engineers come from Yale, Harvard, Oxford, CMU, MIT, and Nvidia.
E-commerce store
- Owner and Developer
- Jan 2020 – Feb 2022
Online store and client sites
- Scaled an online store to $25K+ annual revenue at about 50% gross margin.
- Grew it to 40K+ social followers through micro-influencer marketing.
- Built e-commerce sites and ran paid ad campaigns for 12+ clients.
Projects
VOTR (for Google)
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AI civic app concept for underrepresented voters
- Design Strategist, industry practicum
- Nov 2024
Revolver
- Co-creator
- Mar 2026
Three AI agents that find local businesses, build their websites, and run outreach
- Three coordinated AI agents scraped and scored local auto repair shops, built each a mobile-first SEO website from real business data, and ran tailored outreach that halted on reply and sent a mockup.
- Ran end to end with no manual input.
- Built in a team of two for the Microsoft for Startups × USC Sigma Eta Pi Hackathon, in the Most Likely to Generate Revenue in 30 Days track.
- OpenClaw, Kimi K2.5, Azure Foundry, React.
Hygiene-Integrated Rideshare (for Honda)
- R&D Consultant, industry practicum
- Sep 2024
Rideshare concepts shaped by Gen Z views on urban mobility
- Researched Gen Z perspectives on urban mobility and created concepts for hygiene-integrated rideshare vehicles.
- Worked with a selected IYA team to pitch the concepts to executives at Honda.
Honors
USC IYA Progressive M.S.
First student in Iovine and Young Academy history on track to finish it within four years
USC Early Career Innovator Award
$5K
USC IYA Venture Showcase
Finalist
USC IYA Ignite Grant
$3K