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YC S15 alum, 2x AI founder, now building Ripple Talks
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current founder of Ripple Talks, hosting private conversations between icons and top tech founders.
- Y Combinator S15 alum (VOIQ).
- Past founder of VOIQ (YC S15) and ILUMA AI (Techstars '23).
- Co-founders across companies including VOIQ and ILUMA AI.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Y Combinator S15 alum (VOIQ).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)6,085 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past founder of VOIQ (YC S15) and ILUMA AI (Techstars '23).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current founder of Ripple Talks, hosting private conversations between icons and top tech founders.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Raised $10M across VOIQ and ILUMA AI from YC and other Silicon Valley investors.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Recognized as a Silicon Valley Top Diverse Tech 40 Under 40 and Top 20 Latino Tech Leader in the US.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Co-founders across companies including VOIQ and ILUMA AI.
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an active angel investor through his family fund Nilo Ventures.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Active GP / fund manager as Principal at Nilo Ventures (founded 2019).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Founding Equity Partner at Acrew Capital (Acrew DC Fund).
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Founding Governance member of Orange DAO ($80M fund with 1,500 founders).
What you likely need
You sit at the intersection of founder, community-builder, and investor — a rare profile with a live YC S15 exit history, a $10M fundraising track record, and a personal Rolodex of icons through Ripple Talks and Alumni Founders. The most valuable Festival events will help you sharpen your next AI thesis, deepen your Acrew/Nilo deal flow, and formalize the icon-founder gatherings you already run. Bring your convening power and use these rooms to test what you build (and back) next.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA YC S15 founder dinner to reconnect with batchmates now leading AI companies and swap thesis notes for Nilo Ventures deal flow.
- fundraisingAn Acrew Capital + Top American Latinx Tech Leaders LP roundtable to widen the funnel of billion-dollar Latinx founders you're mentoring toward 2040.
- positioningA Ripple Talks co-host planning happy hour with fellow community-builders (SPC, On Deck, South Park Commons) to cross-pollinate icon guests and audiences.
- tacticalA post-ILUMA office-hours session with predictive-AI founders to pressure-test the next B2B AI company you might start after the ILUMA wind-down.
- introsAn Orange DAO founder mixer to reactivate Web3 relationships from your Founding Governance days and scout early-stage crypto/AI investments for Nilo.
- fundraisingA workshop for solo GPs and family-fund principals on scaling Nilo Ventures into a syndicated micro-fund with SPV mechanics.
- tacticalA tactical dinner on monetizing invite-only founder communities (Ripple Talks, Alumni Founders) without diluting the curation that makes them work.