I’m a tech founder and investor based in Los Angeles

Raised across Latin America, I now live in L.A., at the edge of Griffith Park. Founder first, I now angel invest in and advise tech startups, and I’m a venture partner at Also Capital. I’m inclined toward builders of the hardest things (genomics, robotics, aerospace, RF, and more).

I love building things:

• I’m currently developing a couple moonshots I hope to share more about soon.

• I co-founded Juicebox, an open-source project for secure key management. Our PIN-based distributed system is used by X and Phantom, among others.

• I co-founded goTenna to increase access to connectivity; the company was acquired by Forterra, the leader in ground autonomy. goTenna builds the world’s most advanced short-burst mobile mesh networking hardware and software, enabling connectivity independent of cellular, Wi-Fi, or satellite — the magic lies in the Aspen Grove mesh protocol. It is used by 350+ government agencies in the highest-stakes situations.

• I founded a national volunteer project to expand voters’ access to information on core societal issues through the lens of a grassroots candidate’s record. (Founding statement here.)

Here’s a list of books I recommend:

• Apeirogon by Colum McCann

• How to Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum

• The Sellout by Paul Beatty

• The Counterlife by Philip Roth

• Democracy by Joan Didion

• Post Office by Charles Bukowski

• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

• Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

• Conquest of the Useless by Werner Herzog

• La ronde de nuit (Night Rounds) by Patrick Modiano

• Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

• Toward a Psychology of Awakening by John Welwood

• No Bad Parts by Richard D. Schwartz

• El diario de Frida Kahlo (The Diary of Frida Kahlo) by Frida Kahlo

• The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan

• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• Raising the Floor by Andy Stern

• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer