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Silicon Valley 2X AI Tech Founder / $10M VC backed
65 Top tech founders, 11 of them running $Billion+ companies
About
Ricardo is a seasoned Silicon Valley 2X AI tech founder ($10M venture backed YCombinator alum) in the AI B2B enterprise space. Most recently he was the founder & CEO of ILUMA AI - Predictive AI for CEOs. He is also the founder of two leading communities of thousands of the top tech founders in the world:
- Alumni Founders (4,000 YCombinator Alumni) YC founders have created startups that have achieved an aggregate valuation of $600B.
- Top American Latinx Tech Leaders (65 leaders - 11 of them founders of billion-dollar companies).
Ricardo has hosted 50+ of the most influential tech leaders in the world in highly curated in-person & virtual private "Founder Series" events across nine cities, among them: Mark Cuban, Ashton Kutcher, Ben Horowitz, Marcelo Claure (Softbank), Tim Draper (DFJ), Jeff Lawson (Twilio), Jennifer Hyman (Rent the Runway), Daphne Koller (Coursera), Brian Halligan (HubSpot), Michael Siebel (YCombinator), Justin Kan (Twitch), and many more.
Ricardo is recognized as a Silicon Valley Top Diverse Tech 40 Under 40. He is a founding equity partner of Acrew Capital and active angel investor through his family fund, Nilo Ventures. Ricardo is also a Founding Governance member of the Orange DAO ($80M fund, 1,500 founders).
Prior to Silicon Valley, Ricardo was an Associate at the NYC Mayor’s Office under Michael Bloomberg developing the technology blueprint for New York City. He also was campaign CTO to mayor Angel Taveras; the first Latino mayor of the City of Providence, RI.
Ricardo has an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, and an undergraduate degree in Politics from NYU. He is a former member of the board of advisors of the World Policy Institute. Ricardo is also a Consortium Fellow, a Management Leaders for Tomorrow (MLT) Fellow, and a Council of Urban Professionals Fellow. He is also the former President of the Scarsdale Alumni Association and was recently a guest at the White House reception for Latino leaders. Ricardo is also an Aspen Institute Latino Tech Leader.
Ricardo lives in beautiful Carmel, CA with his wife, Leslie, his two-year old Leo and their two chihuahuas. The few hours when he's not chasing after Leo, Ricardo enjoys mountain biking, gardening and horseback riding.
HOSTING TOP SILICON VALLEY TECH LEADERS
EthDenver - How to Leverage AI to Combat Information Asymmetry
Ricardo spoke at ETHDenver on a panel next to Jessica, ILUMA’s co-founder and COO. The panel touched upon how communities can leverage AI to gain the edge of information asymmetry and the unique value that Orange DAO brings to portfolio companies.
RICARDO ON THE FUTURE OF AI
Panel: The Startup Match-up
Audience: 10,000+ world-class CEOs, economists, entrepreneurs and industry leaders
Ricardo cohosts the Startup Match-up at L’ATTITUDE with Ebetuel "Beto" Pallares, who led the effort of matching latino founders with over $2.5M of capital deployed on stage and invested, alongside a great panel of Latino VCs.
YCombinator Demo Day
Audience: 1,000 leading investors (invite-only)
Ricardo presents VOIQ on YCombinator Demo Day (private, invitation) for the Summer 2015 class at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. It was the 21st Demo Day event in Y Combinator’s history, with a total of 102 pitches spread across two days.
PODCASTS
VOIQ Voicebots saving lives by detecting covid cases over the phone
November 23, 2020
Ricardo speaks about how the Colombian government is using VOIQ’s technology in their fight against Covid-19 by being able to diagnose millions of citizens in record time. He highlights the magic of conversational VoiceBots, how VoiceBots are currently being used by businesses and how they will be used in the future.
How Voice Technology Can Help Your Business
April 10, 2020
Listen to Ricardo talk about his journey into technology, why voice innovation is helpful for businesses, what it's like to pitch to investors, the data and feedback he's received from his users, and why he founded the Top 50 Latino Tech Leaders organization and what it entails.
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