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Best with: Product strategy • TypeScript / React • Supabase (Edge Functions, Postgres) • Early-stage company building • Notion/Loom & async comms
Familiar with: Ruby on Rails • Streamlit • Blockchain tooling • AI/LLM integrations (Gemini, GPT) • Chrome/Browser extensions

💡 TL;DR – I’m a Spanish product-builder & repeat founder who loves shipping useful (sometimes downright fun) software.
Co-founded fintech Capchase (> $1 B deployed) and the non-profit Exponential Fellowship (helping top young Spaniards join US startups). In my spare time I hack on OSS tools, bots, and date-pickers, invest in promising founders, and write detailed handbooks so teams know exactly how I work.


About Guli

Madrid-based “builder at heart.” Formally an Aerospace engineer, I gravitated to software because it lets you invent at the speed of thought. Today I split time between leading Product at Capchase, mentoring Exponential Fellows in SF & NYC, and tinkering on side-projects that scratch my curiosity itch. You can read more about me here.


Main Achievements

  • Capchase – Co-founder (2020-present). Deployed >$1 B in non-dilutive capital, processed $80 M in SaaS deals, team ~80 across 10 countries.
  • Exponential Fellowship – Co-founder (2024-present). Placed 8 outstanding Spanish engineers in top YC & a16z-backed startups in NYC/SF.
  • Angel investor in Reveni, Rebolt (YC W25), Capably; LP in Project Europe.
  • Barrié de la Maza Fellow. Granted for outstanding professional and academic achievement. Full scholarship to pursue an MBA at Berkeley Haas Business School (of which I dropped out of to build Capchase).
  • Forbes 30 under 30 for my work building and growing a fintech company.

Most-Prideful Builds

Project Role & Stack Why it matters
Capchase Co-founder • Product lead • Rails/React/Fintech infra Gives SaaS startups instant runway without dilution.
Exponential Fellowship Co-founder • Community ops • Notion, Supabase Unlocks career-changing US roles for Spanish talent.
Carlo (WhatsApp bot) Creator • Supabase Edge Functions • Gemini Delivers daily Gospel & Saint-of-the-day to users.
A Good Date Picker Solo dev • TypeScript + React + shadcn/ui Natural-language date input (“next Friday”, “+3 months”). OSS.

More builds: Comgo (blockchain traceability), Hello Leia (NuxtJS portfolio), KittyBus-Madrid bot, assorted Chrome extensions.

Experience (TL;DR)

  • Capchase (2020–) – Co-founder & Product; scaled from idea → Series B fintech (> 100 people).
  • Exponential Fellowship (2024–) – Co-founder; program design, fundraising, US company outreach.
  • Aerospace Engineering (BSc) – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
  • 20+ side projects across web, mobile, bots, and OSS since 2015.
  • Frequent speaker/mentor on product, fintech, and Spain-to-US career paths.

(Full résumé available on request.)


How I Work

  • Gets me pumped: kind, humble builders • shipping fast • strong culture • watching users delight in a feature
  • Disappoints me: apathy, politics, big egos, over-engineering small cogs
  • Strengths: pragmatic 80/20 thinking, quick context-switching, obsessive documentation, design eye
  • Improvement points: can over-optimize, occasional tunnel vision, still honing people-management skills
  • Known behaviours: emoji/GIF heavy 🙌 • speak fast • inbox-zero • picky about formatting

Other

Some personal stuff

  • Born in Ferrol (1994).
  • INTJ, Catholic; values Consistency, Kindness, Simplicity, Curiosity.
  • Plays drums, guitar & cajón flamenco; Sunday 7-a-side goalkeeper; into padel, surf, ski, scuba.
  • Movie buff, avid YouTube learner, real-life tinkerer.

My vision

Over the next 5 years I’ll keep scaling Capchase, grow the Fellowship to 100+ alumni, and back ≥ 20 technical Spanish founders as an angel. Building in the US ecosystem lets me compound learning, capital, and network—fuel I’ll ultimately redirect toward Spain’s tech renaissance.

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