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Serial founder building Ripple Talks; LP at Orange DAO's $80M fund
Credibility
Exits & Outcomes · 68th percentile
- Portfolio unicorn: Brex, an all-in-one business finance company valued well over $1B.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)22,350 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current founder of Ripple Talks Inc., an invite-only community of 20,000 VC-backed founders.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past co-founder of AnswerBite, an AI content company backed by Techstars Boulder '22, Google Startups, and Ulu Ventures.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Multiple companies co-founded with brothers Ricardo and Andres Garcia-Amaya.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Past founder of Mulu Labs, a technology company he ran as CEO.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an investor across multiple venture-backed startups.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Feature profile in Boston University's Bostonia magazine about his work building AnswerBite.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio unicorn: Brex, an all-in-one business finance company valued well over $1B.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Active fund manager as Limited Partner at Orange DAO's $80M Orange Fund and Partner at Orange Fund.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio of ~9 companies including Brex, Finix, Flat.mx, Zoe Financial, Elemeno Health, Zealous, Keynua, ILUMA, and Instafloss.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Investing since 2017 (Zoe Financial), ~8 years of investing experience.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Notable regional recognition: named a Top 20 Latino Tech Leader.
What you likely need
You're a serial founder-investor with strong distribution among VC-backed founders — Ripple Talks and Techstars Alumni give you unusual convening power. Founder Festival events should sharpen your dual identity: raising your next round, deepening your LP/GP relationships at Orange DAO, and turning your 20,000-founder network into product and deal flow. Prioritize small, high-signal rooms with other operator-investors and Techstars/YC alumni.
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 Techstars alumni founder dinner to source warm intros for Ripple Talks' next cohort and unlock new speaker unicorns.
- fundraisingAn Orange DAO / web3 GP roundtable to compare deal flow and co-investment opportunities from the $80M Orange Fund thesis.
- positioningA Latinx tech founders happy hour in Miami to strengthen ties among Top Latino Tech Leaders and share fundraising playbooks.
- tacticalA tactical workshop on monetizing invite-only founder communities, drawing on Ripple Talks' 20,000-strong network.
- introsA YC S20 / Techstars '22 crossover dinner to pressure-test Ripple Talks' expansion beyond Techstars alumni.
- fundraisingAn angel syndicate office hours with fellow operator-angels backing fintech (Brex, Finix, Zoe) to co-invest on upcoming rounds.
- wellbeingA small, off-the-record fireside on founder wellbeing while running a community-first startup solo.
- hiringA hiring-focused dinner to meet a founding engineer for Ripple Talks who can scale its virtual-room product.