Kosta Ligris

Kosta Ligris is an experienced entrepreneur, and the founder of the Ligris family of companies, a collection of professional services, real estate, consulting, and tech companies. Under his leadership, the Ligris companies grew to become one of the largest residential conveyancing and transactional firms in Massachusetts. Along with its affiliated title agencies – the Ligris companies have overseen over $100 billion of real estate matters, consistently placing them as the top agents for the country’s largest title insurance underwriters in New England.

In 2019 Kosta left the Ligris companies and founded Stavvy, a platform to help financial institutions and their vendors digitize traditional paper transactions using video conferencing, eSign, eNotary and workflow management tools. He is currently the CEO of Stavvy, one of Boston’s fastest growing fintech startups recognized as a top employer by Forbes and others.

Kosta is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, New York, Washington D.C., the United States Federal Court for the First District, and the United States Supreme Court. He has been recognized as a real estate “Super Lawyer” for thirteen consecutive years (2012-2024). Kosta has represented and performed consulting services for some of the nation’s largest banks and real estate companies and has developed real estate in the Greater Boston markets for over a decade.  Kosta develops systems, protocols and technology to create greater efficiency, security, compliance, and oversight in the real estate and title/settlement industry. Kosta also advises real estate companies in all verticals of real estate in innovation, strategy, technology, legal, compliance and other matters.

Kosta has been a mentor at MIT’s Leadership Center and the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund and has researched corporate engagement with MIT’s Innovation Initiative based in Kendall Square. Kosta is an Entrepreneur in Residence at MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship and a Lecturer in Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

When he is not practicing his amateur photography skills, he is an active philanthropist, serving various boards benefiting the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Beth Israel Lahey Health, to name a couple. Kosta holds a B.S. in Physiology and Chemistry from Boston University, a J.D. with honors from Suffolk University Law School (where he serves on the Dean’s Cabinet and as a University Trustee), and an M.B.A. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.