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GLOBAL THOUGHT
LEADER IN
AI PLATFORMS FOR WEB3

founder/CEO OF ILUMA
The AI Brain powering the next million high-growth companies

$200B in Valuations, 3,000 alumni founders, 25+ unicorns

$10B in exits & $120B to invest 
40 American LatinX founders running billion-dollar tech companies by 2040

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Ricardo is the founder & CEO of ILUMA, the AI brain powering the next million web3 companies ($2.5M raised) . ILUMA gives you the superhuman ability to filter out the chatter and noise of Discord, saving you countless hours by easily providing you with the most important information and insights.

Ricardo is a founding governance committee member of the leading and most influential tech DAO in the world; the Orange DAO (1,500+ YCombinator alumni building the future of web3 & a $50M fund).

Previously Ricardo was the founder of VOIQ ($6M raised) backed by YCombinator and other top Silicon Valley investors, building Voice Conversational AI products.

Ricardo is the founder of two of the most influential private communities in Silicon Valley; the YC Alumni (1,300 top tech founders that went through the YC program) and the Top American Latinx Tech Leaders in the US ($16 Billion in founder exits, $120 Billion to invest). He is a founding equity partner of Acrew Capital and active angel investor through his family fund, Nilo Ventures. Ricardo is an Aspen Institute tech fellow and an NYU stern innovation fellow. He was recently recognized as a Silicon Valley Top Diverse Tech 40 under 40. 

Prior to his two tech startups, Ricardo was an associate at the NYC Mayor’s office under Michael Bloomberg developing the technology roadmap for New York City. He also was campaign CTO to Mayor Angel Taveras; the first Latino mayor of the city of providence, RI.

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Ricardo has an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, and an undergraduate degree in politics from NYU. He is a 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.

EVENTS

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Keynote: The Rise of Conversational VoiceBots

Keynote: The Rise of Conversational VoiceBots

Audience: 500 NYC tech leaders

Ricardo gives a keynote on the past, present and future of AI Voice and Conversational VoiceBots for Sales and Marketing calls at the Global Chatbot & AI Voice Conference to 200+ technology leaders from the Fortune 500.

Aspen Institute Leaders Forum: Unleashing $1T to the US Economy

Aspen Institute Leaders Forum: Unleashing $1T to the US Economy

Audience: 20 US leaders (by invitation-only)

20 US Latino leaders convened by the Aspen Institute (Top influential Think Tanks in the world) in Aspen for the second forum focused on developing the playbook to bolster the US economy by $1 Trillion by scaling Latino-owned businesses.

Silicon Valley Latino Leadership Summit

Silicon Valley Latino Leadership Summit

Audience: 250 leaders in business, government, education throughout the US

Ricardo speaks about Emerging Entrepreneurial Latino Leadership in the US and Latin America. The Silicon Valley Latino Summit brings the top Thought Leaders throughout the country to Stanford University to connect and inspire the community towards entrepreneurship and leadership.

GK & SE

Global Keynotes & Speaking Engagements

PODCASTS

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.

The future of AI VoiceBots for Business

January 27, 2020

YCombinator backed VOIQ is leading the $150b transformation from humans to conversational AI Voicebots for calling. Listen to Ricardo speak on how AI Voice is changing how businesses operate.

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