My Story

2005: I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to an American father from the Bay Area and Spanish mother from Madrid. I don't really know how I ended up in Ohio and don't remember anything, but yes, I'm an Ohioan.

2006: I moved to Austin, Texas to live there for four years. I recalled Austin to be one of the coolest cities I've ever been to. The food, music, nonchalant nature of the people there made it a wonderful place to grow up in.

2010: I moved to Brussels, Belgium for a year, where I got exposure to the European culture truly for the first time. I was still developing as a child but I recall enjoying biking in the wonderous forests of Brussels, liking a girl for the first time subconsciously, and going to the markets on Sundays to eat an unimaginably good smelling waffle.

2011: I moved to Mallorca, Spain, an island in the Mediterranean. My home for the next eleven years. I always say as I live in Boston now that I was spoiled very early on because of the paradise-like nature of the city. My goodness was the weather wonderful and I was fortunate enough – though I didn't know it at the time – to live 10 minutes walking from the school and 5 minutes from the beach. It was amazing. I am grateful for the location as well as the school that I went to.

Shortly after arriving to Mallorca, at age seven my parents divorced and was raised by an incredible single mother since. She instilled in my sister and me the importance of having a global mindset, the importance of education, thinking independently from others, and preserving a healthy body and mind. I was blessed to have grown up in a house where our shelf was filled with Tony Robbins or Ryan Holiday books, listening in the background to podcasts from Tim Ferris or Peter Diamandis, and learning the organic food isle since I remember knowing what a supermarket is.

The school that I went to was Agora Portals International School. It was the embodiment of a good k-12 experience, for the most part. I began playing the saxophone at the age of six, ultimately playing for seven years and playing in band concerts, leading our group of saxophonists, playing solo concerts as well as becoming the youngest musician in the state band. That taught me early on leadership, discipline, creativity, and intuition.

I fell in love with soccer and basketball, basketball more so. That sport was everything to me. I became a die hard Warriors fan. From ages seven to nine, I practiced and played games in both sports at the same time all year round, which developed my work ethic, adaptability, and athleticism. At ten years old I went all-in into basketball, where I played point guard. I recall seeming to be very good but not elite. Until now I had only played in my school's team but I decided to leave the comfort zone and play on two different teams ultimately playing in La Salle at age eleven, which was deemed to be the best basketball club in the island. I was driven by emotion back then, so I was naturally fearful of going because of how different, imposing, and high-stakes it was going to be, but thanks to my mother which pretty much forced me to go, I played in an extraordinary club and met some great people there.

2018: After my seventh year at the school, we decided it was time for change mainly because of the quality of the teachers of our previous school. We enrolled in Laurel Springs School and began taking online classes in what was the equivalent of an American High School. Throughout my period at Agora, I was best described as an energetic, emotional, but calm kid who was able to get around any group of people, girls and boys, the sports kids and the nerdy kids. When I left, it was tough for them and me, but I knew it was the right choice.

Doing school remotely was an absolute foreign concept to many. Many told us: "How would you develop socially?", "Won't they become too lonely?". In part, they were right, but on another, we knew how much we could develop via this experience. I did classes at home, went to basketball practice, and had great gatherings with my previous schools' friends. Undertaking this experience taught me the importance of self-study, self-organization, discipline, and independent thinking.

2019: I left my team at La Salle because of my disappointment with the coaches and how basketball was conducted. I got so disappointed that for the time being I decided to leave basketball and sports altogether. This period of 0 exercise other than a random Spartan Race I did was eight months. That period was bad – I was very into Fortnite (surprise) and eating badly despite the good influence around me. I had never-ending battles to be more with my PS4 and didn't go outside much. Combined with doing classes online, my body and my mind shattered and had no real purpose, stability, or life.

In Covid I began doing indoor exercise sessions. I was trying to become more active. I didn't like the way I looked and most importantly the way I felt. I gradually realized that after each session I felt a bit better and a bit more energized. Soon, after we were able to leave the house, I began practicing basketball on my own early in the mornings. At age 16, I was unrecognizable, physically and mentally. I was waking up early to exercise and began eating cleaner and cleaner on my own. I was also performing better in school, began writing better, and also became very interested in self-development as a concept and way of life. I grew taller and became very lean physically and not because I was forcing myself, but it was more so a natural by-product of becoming a better version of myself. I started doing karate and working out with weights which developed my athleticism, flexibility, and confidence tremendously. This period taught me the importance of starting your day right, the benefits of a healthy body and mind, and how changing habits doesn't merely require a change in behavior but rather a change in lifestyle.

I finished High School in three years at 16. However, rather than pursuing college, because I hadn't yet developed meaningfully to pursue a university worthwhile of going to, me and my mother thought best to pursue the IB Diploma at The Global College in the heart of Madrid – a new school which had a strategic alliance with IE University. Mallorca had been home to me for eleven years but I wanted more, I needed it. I needed an ecosystem that fostered greater activity and growth – and Madrid given our family was there and it was the capital of Spain was a natural step. Even though I had been in large part secluded from a social ecosystem for three years, I quickly and naturally adapted to The Global College environment. Prior to beginning I practiced public speaking vigorously because of my lack of practice, and soon because of that after several presentations became known for my public speaking abilities.

In late 2022 I founded the AI club because I thought ChatGPT was extremely effective and wanted to raise awareness of AI to the school. Most students didn't know what AI was, so I placed pamphlets around the school and began going to people in-person to convince them to join. Soon after, 1/3 of the student body joined and was great to create weekly workshops exploring different tools. The next Summer, I turned 18 and wanted to gain work experience so I printed out my resume, placed them in a folder, and went to all the restaurants I could see in Madrid and the nearby areas to give them my resume and express to them the value I could add. I had numerous interviews, including in Starbucks, Burger King, Dominoes, VIPS, and GOIKO. I thought this was a great learning experience to be discussing about potential employment with such renown chains. I was ultimately called by GOIKO to go in person. I began working for them in the weekends, combined with jiujitsu, school, and university applications. This period taught me the importance of multi-tasking, adaptability, cultural fluency, relationship building, and performing under stressful environments.

2024: I went to Northeastern University because of the work experience, co-op, and Boston location. I didn't really know what I wanted to do still so I pursued Economics and International Business – although looking back would have changed it to some form of engineering or biology and Business with Finance. Historically, before Boston, I loved classes, studying, and everything that was related to learning with teachers. However, because I had been experiencing with AI a lot already, I knew the only worthwhile college experience would be one where I could work and actually have an impact. In October 2024 I read a report by McKinsey titled "Arenas of Tomorrow" which enamored me completely. It was the scientific breakthroughs, visionary thinking, and transformative impact that such industries were deemed to be able to make on society that drew me to VC completely. Throughout this year I was in a state of optimizing for performance rather than pure grit as I did in Madrid. I left jiujitsu for the time being and decided to focus on making the most of pursuing a field that was worthwhile of pursuing.

The next Summer I had the fortune of working at VU Venture Partners' accelerator program, which increased my interest in VC even more. Surrounded by the most brilliant people I had ever been with +10 years older than me at the heart of San Francisco discussing about the funds' investments in SpaceX, Anduril, Starcatcher, Interlune etc… was the best work experience ever. That moment clicked for me. I knew I wanted to work in VC. I learned how to think in risk and return units, what questions to ask founders, and how to pitch deals in a concise and effective manner. I was just 19 at the time. This period taught me how to engage with senior members with delicate and complex information, adaptability, and the importance of fostering a network in VC.

Throughout my time speaking with founders and learning about the value of a network, I realized I really really enjoyed connecting with people. I realized this more so as I reconnected with friends from Europe as well as having coffee chats with employees across different firms that my energy was always higher after I had a call with them. It was the similar feeling I had as with exercise back in quarantine. As a result, I made a more intentional effort to build relationships with people from Europe, students at Northeastern, employees etc… While focusing on recruiting for co-op and Summer 2027 internships, I also realized I was very good at speaking with people I had never previously known about, and I was grateful for it, because I knew how awkward it was for many students to do that. Throughout the winter of 2025/2026, I was doing an investment banking internship remotely, interviews for Summer 2027, and my co-op at Raptor Group in its Private Investments group. This period taught me a lot about finance in both buy-side and sell-side terms, mental grit, and adaptability and versatility.

I certainly know that I would have enjoyed the banking experience more if I was in person and if I didn't have the persistent need to focus on recruiting as well. However, it taught me what running a deal looked like. That Christmas was like it never happened because when I wasn't drafting emails, I was networking, and when I wasn't networking, I was writing cover letters, or prepping my story, my questions, researching about different firms, or doing the Hirevues. I didn't really know what I wanted to do until it was too late – early January. My networking that I had been doing for half a year mainly was scattered – focusing initially on wealth management and then on investment banking and venture investing. I didn't really know what city to focus on or what sector or how to approach it effectively. When it came down to the actual conversation I was really good, but I didn't do nearly as many as I should have because I didn't know what I wanted to do one year and a half from now! It was a long time, truly. Too long. Once December and January hit however, I focused on San Francisco or New York Technology, especially SF, given that I had a very good story to tell.

Throughout early 2026 I had realized the most success in venture and growth equity investing roles, having the fortune of going to the final round for three incredibly reputable firms, even going to New York to do an in-person interview for one, my first time in NYC. For months, I was striving to do my best doing the investment banking internship, recruiting, and my Co-op. It was a lot, but given my background I knew I could do it. Unfortunately, none of those final rounds went my way and gradually faded away as the Spring hit. I didn't let that impact my work at Raptor, however, There, I was one of four members of the private equity team which oversaw +$1Bn AUM across direct, primary, and co-investments.

I worked on 7+ deals from Seed to Series C across SpaceTech, DefenseTech, Government SaaS, Consumer, and others. Being directly involved in calls with remarkable founders, fund managers, and having a say on the outcome of an investment via diligence, modeling, conversations with others, was a remarkable experience that developed my investor judgment and risk-taking. Even though Raptor mostly dealt with inbound sourcing, I proactively sourced deals that I thought could be interesting for the firm – one time having multiple calls with Infinite Capital about Mach Industries' Series C before relaying to my Managing Director. In addition to adding value as an "investor", I led the development of agentic AI within our group, building a software platform via Claude with security clearance that was able to greatly compress the time we could capture news, source, screen deals, analyze, and write memos from hours to minutes. This was a project I had began building in March and presented early April to the group.

This project was almost a way to channel my very early fascination with AI into now agentic AI. I explored much further when I could, after work or in the weekends with frontier systems like OpenClaw and Hermes agent, even building a 24/7 proprietary trading bot with Cursor and Claude that performed arbitrage trading in Polymarket. This proclivity towards building systems and testing the limits of intelligence is really the origin of my desire to build a community, a group of people that were equally interested in this. There was no real community that was speaking about this at Northeastern. Most were focused on either niche applications or legacy AI. I was introduced to Jack Blundin and quickly after hearing the fire and energy, I knew there was potential here. What I knew was that I wanted to make it firstly educational and then make it a small group – maybe 20 people. I spent the next two months and a half reaching out to Masters and Undergrad students who seemed to be able to contribute in a unique way. By mid May I finally had the group and I was so happy with it. I was very proud of myself because I took action. I knew and know AI is the present and future and I thought there was no better way than to proclaiming yourself as the leader of an AI group.

In April, I became interested in working with real assets, partly because I had been working at Raptor with a lot of hardware startups but also because I wanted to further strengthen my investing acumen in an area that was more slow-moving, tangible, though equally important and significant. After a truly hard time emotionally, I was given an offer to work at Inland Group in Chicago for that Summer in their Real Estate Acquisitions group. I was brought not necessarily because of my finance background, but because of my AI background. They wanted to improve and redefine how investments were underwritten and they thought I could be of great value there. This also built my profile really well, enabling me to invest across the entire lifecycle from venture to growth to acquisitions, across both intangible and tangible assets. I was very excited! And also some extra income was appreciated also.