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Aron Schwarzkopf Is Building the Rails Nobody Sees
The Kushki co-founder has spent his career making money move more easily. His second act began with a return to Latin America - and a wager that the region's invisible financial plumbing could become its most consequential technology.
Mikayel Vardanyan Built a Creative Empire by Learning How to Learn
Before creative AI could turn a sentence into an image, an engineer from Yerevan learned to turn constraints into companies. His lasting subject is not software. It is who gets the confidence to make something.
Maria Lobato Turns Cybersecurity Into a Language People Can Act On
At Lumu, Maria Lobato has made a career of translating invisible threats into clear choices. Her route from corporate communications to the C-suite explains why her favorite cybersecurity tool may be a well-chosen word.
The $48 Million Bet That Your Security Stack Already Missed Something
Lumu built a cybersecurity company around an unfashionable question: what if the intruder is already inside? Its answer is to read the trail in network metadata, confirm the compromise, and make the security stack respond.
Alejandro Planas Bet on the Cloud Before Latin America Had a Forecast
A slow server order gave an electronic engineer a fast idea. Seventeen years later, Alejandro Planas has turned that operational irritation into a cloud company built across Latin America - and into the kind of specialist a global buyer wanted to keep running.
He Built a Parenting App for the Question No Spreadsheet Could Answer
Gustavo Rodriguez knew how to read a deal. Becoming a father taught him that the harder problem was turning a mountain of child-development research into one useful thing a tired parent could do next.
Josip Rupena Is Teaching a Mortgage to Read a Wallet
The Milo founder began with a simple mismatch: wealthy people could buy American stocks, yet struggle to finance an American home. His answer is a lender built to understand the assets conventional underwriting overlooks.
Ariel Quinones
Ariel Quinones is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ironhack, a global tech bootcamp he launched in Madrid in 2013 with Gonzalo Manrique after the two met at Wharton. Raised in a Puerto Rican family of educators, he spotted a mismatch he could not unsee: youth unemployment above 50% in Spain sitting beside hundreds of thousands of unfilled tech jobs. Ironhack was his answer - short, intensive, outcomes-obsessed training that has since graduated thousands of career-changers across campuses in Europe, the Americas, and beyond. He now leads from Miami, preaching a gospel of ruthless focus on student outcomes and over-delivering on what people expect.
Ania Rodriguez
Ania Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of JourneyTrack, a Miami-based customer journey management SaaS platform whose mission is to humanize the customer experience. An industrial engineer turned two-time founder, she spent more than two decades advising Fortune 500 companies on UX and CX through her first company, Key Lime Interactive, which she launched from a conference hallway three weeks after giving birth and being laid off. JourneyTrack, founded in 2021, raised $1.5M in seed funding and counts Google among its enterprise customers.
David Fano
David Fano is the founder and CEO of Teal, an AI-powered career platform that helps people manage their job search, build resumes, and grow their careers. An architect by training, he co-founded the technology consultancy CASE Design, sold it into WeWork, and spent years as a senior executive there before leaving to build tools that put job seekers, not employers, in control. He runs Teal from Miami and is a frequent voice in press and podcasts on how AI is reshaping work.
Mike Solana
Mike Solana is the founder and editor-in-chief of Pirate Wires, the technology, politics, and culture publication that became required reading inside Silicon Valley's investor class. He doubles as Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President at Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, where he runs the firm's creative output, including the Anatomy of Next podcast and the Hereticon conference for ideas that get exiled from polite conversation. The Atlantic dubbed him 'the most opinionated man in America.' Operating from Miami, he writes and broadcasts a contrarian, often combative take on tech, the press, and California governance.