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About

Twenty years of building, one consistent thread.

Every chapter is the same job in a new field: take something hard and abstract, and turn it into something that works.

Lorenzo de Leo

Mathematics

I started in pure mathematics: a PhD at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where I also taught in the math faculty from 2003 to 2007. Mathematics gave me the habit I still trust most — reduce a problem to what it actually is before touching it.


Deep tech

At ARQUIMEA, an aerospace spin-off of Universidad Carlos III, I led technology-transfer programs across space, robotics, defense, and health. It was my first job turning research into products, and I was responsible for securing the funding to do it.


Company building

Nine years at Rokk3r, the Miami venture builder — leading more than 100 innovation projects across the US and Latin America that fed a portfolio of 50+ co-founded startups. Along the way I created 10xU, Rokk3r's education platform for founders and executives, which reached more than 25,000 students.


Emerging tech

Through the blockchain years I collaborated with the Algorand and Moonbeam foundations and was a partner at Rayo Capital. That stretch taught me to tell a real technology shift from a loud one — a distinction I use daily now.


Now

Today I'm Managing Director at ENYA Ventures , a pre-seed fund backing AI-native founders across Spanish-speaking Latin America — and I'm building the fund itself to run on AI agents. Research, meeting prep, and relationship memory already do; testing the thesis on my own company keeps my opinions about AI-native honest. I mentor at Techstars and the Founder Institute, and I'm a member of the Stanford AI & Web3 Research Lab. Based in Miami.

Working together

Speaking, teaching, or an AI-native founder with something real.