Startups & Investment Matching

Theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur, author, and mother of two, Vivienne is featured frequently for her research and inventions in The Financial Times, The Atlantic, and the New York Times. Her AI inventions have launched a dozen companies and nonprofits with a focus on human potential: education, workforce, and health. A self-described “professional mad scientist”, Vivienne founded The Human Trust to fight some of the world’s most pressing problems, and she travels the world sharing the stories of these astonishing projects. In her free time, Vivienne works to design AI systems to help treat her son’s diabetes, predict manic episodes in bipolar sufferers, and reunite orphan refugees with extended family members. She sits on the boards of numerous companies and nonprofits, including UC Berkeley’s Neurotech Collider Hub and RFK Human Rights. For relaxation, she writes science fiction and hikes with her wife and children.

Diogo Mónica is the Founder and President of Anchorage Digital. Anchorage Digital brings the world’s most advanced and proven security architecture to cryptocurrency custody, to deliver the services institutions expect from a traditional custodian.

Before founding Anchorage Digital, he was security lead at Docker, an open platform for building, shipping and running distributed applications. While at Docker he worked on the security foundations of the container and orchestration subsystems that are now used as core building blocks of modern IT infrastructure worldwide.

Diogo Mónica was an early employee at Square where he led the platform security team and built the security infrastructure used by Square to move over $80B in annualized volume. He has a BSc, MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science has published several papers in peer-reviewed security conferences on the topic of distributed systems and information security, and is the author of several patents in secure communications, encrypted hardware, and payment systems.

Diogo Mónica is a sought-after public speaker having keynotes, lectures and technical briefings on the topics of usable security, infrastructure security, and distributed systems security. He is also an angel investor and an advisor and board member to numerous startups.

Ezequiel Abramzon is the founder of LALO, a brand strategy consultancy that works with entrepreneurs and their startups worldwide providing the strategic clarity and creative direction necessary to establish an indisputable market position for their brands. Previously, he was a senior executive at The Walt Disney Company in Latin America and Europe for 22 years, helping develop brands such as Disney, Marvel and Star Wars. As General Manager of digital business in Latin America, he led international teams and established multiple B2B and B2C operations for the company.

Daniela Seixas is a medical doctor passionate about tech. She worked in the pharmaceutical industry early in her career; received her PhD in Neuroscience collaborating with the University of Oxford in 2012. In 2015, she completed an Executive MBA at IE Business School Madrid (entrepreneurship). Co-founded Tonic App in 2016, a digital health startup, to which she is now fully dedicated as CEO.

Founded 4 bootstrapped companies. Conducted and published Big Startup Studios Research 2023. Hosted 7 online conferences for Venture Studios, VCs, & Family Offices with 500-3200 registrations each. Founded a venture studio community.

André Campos is the Transformation Officer at Sogrape, where he oversees the group’s Strategy, Innovation, and Transformation. In his role, André has been dedicated to fostering a culture of innovation within Sogrape and positioning the company as a significant player in the innovation ecosystem. André Campos holds an MBA from INSEAD, a degree in Economics, and a master’s degree in Finance from the School of Economics at the University of Porto.

University of Cambridge graduate, Musician and Co-founder of Musiversal, Xavier helped take Portugal’s fastest growing music startup from 0 to €1.5M ARR in its first 12 months. Xavier also co-led the company’s fundraising efforts, helping Musiversal raise over €5M to date from notable Portuguese VCs including Shilling, Lince and Iberis.