Ola Ai

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Cofounder

On Deck

Fellowship

AI Forum

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

Angel Club

Still learning. 

Current investments:
- Mailtrack https://www.mailtrack.io/
- Hireflix https://www.hireflix.com/
- Housers http://www.housers.com/
- Cabify http://www.cabify.com/
- Goin https://goin.one/
- Kasitoko https://kasitoko.com/
- Chicisimo https://chicisimo.com/
- Badi https://badi.com/
- Kasaz https://www.kasaz.com/
- BNext https://www.bnext.es/
- Lobster https://projectlobster.com/
- Seis https://www.seis.com

Angel Investor

Maestro

One of my biggest passions is helping others fast-forward their lives through Mentoring. Maestro is an exploratory project around how to make Mentoring accessible to anyone, no matter where you live or who you know. 

Key Milestones:
- Create a react native app for testing group interactions via short-form video
- Create filters for empowering conversations
- Start an online course (Day One) for helping first time tech founders achieve product market fit

Co-Founder and CEO (merged at Circles)

thesidewaysproject

Sideways is building the first fully autonomous wheelchair in the world. The applications are endless, from improving the internal operations in B2B spaces like hospitals, airports, shopping centers, up to changing the way we perceive an obsolete industry.

Key Achievements:
- Help the team with the go-to-market strategy, pivoting twice until finding product-market fit
- Create multiple minimum viable products for validating the business models and value proposition
- Help on the transition: Define a technical roadmap around the selected niche and implemented a pipeline for hiring a full-time CTO

Interim Chief Technology Officer

First autonomous wheelchair in the world.

Advisory

Tradecraft

Helped the team design, build and create internal tools for growth

Core Team

What is Tradecraft? The fastest way to break into the startup community. Collaborations:
- Astro App (Acquired by Slack) - deep user identification through data analysis
- YogiApproved (Top Yoga Website) - improved funnel conversion by onboarding redesign, product and content strategy

Student

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc.

I am responsible for artificial intelligence R&D projects in the organization.
- Define the product strategy and roadmaps
- Develop, manage and lead high-profile tech teams around these projects
- Understand potential customer needs and translate them into beautiful products 

Current technologies: artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, natural language understanding, natural language generation

Head of Innovation Labs (Artificial Intelligence / Data Science)

I develop secret projects in a secret Lab.

Product Manager

DISCOPERI Inc.

Discoperi mission is to save lives avoiding accidents through a connected car blockchain network. Their first product, System-eye is a sophisticated system aimed at increasing road safety, through connecting vehicles by leveraging:

- internet-of-things for cars
- big data analytics
- artificial intelligence
- blockchain

http://discoperi.com/

THECUBE Madrid

MIOTI (Madrid Institute of Internet of Things) Data Science teacher. 
The youngest in the class.

Professor

🎥 Building CIRCLES - Short videos for professionals | exHyperloop & angel investor

💡 This about page was generated by ChatGPT, an AI-powered language model.

🚀 Hi, I'm Manu Rueda, an AI expert and startup enthusiast. I specialize in developing AI solutions for various industries, with a focus on healthcare, finance and retail. My skills include machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. I am always seeking new challenges and opportunities to grow in my field.

🔍 I am also highly focused on LinkedIn SEO, and I am always looking for ways to optimize my profile to become a top profile in AI and startups on LinkedIn. I am passionate about sharing my knowledge and connecting with others in the AI and startup community.

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Manu Rueda

Pepperstone

Premium Client Manager

Orgon Bank©

At Orgon Bank, we provide institutional-quality deal flow to VC firms, PE firms, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, and other investment entities—free of charge for the buy-side. As an innovative placement agent, we are proud alumni of The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed accelerator. Our investment analysis is aligned with the highest standards, including CAIA, CFA, CMT, ISDA, ILPA, and other leading alternative investment organizations.

Why Choose Us?

We streamline, quantify, professionalize, and de-risk alternative investments, saving investment analysts thousands of hours typically spent on due diligence. By mitigating risks associated with inadequate investments, insufficient quantitative rigor, and lack of local expertise, we help you identify the most promising opportunities efficiently and effectively.

Our Services

Curated Investment Catalog: We provide a carefully selected range of opportunities, including lower and middle market private companies, closed-end funds, and evergreen funds across all major alternative sectors. Each investment is thoroughly vetted using quantitative and qualitative methods.

Advanced Investment Analysis: We employ cutting-edge financial modeling techniques, including ratio analysis, executive summaries, macro and microeconomic assessments, MBA-level business plans, and comprehensive valuation reports, to evaluate alternative investments rigorously.

Customized Investment Scouting: Utilizing our local expertise, we source investments tailored to your criteria, even in challenging markets. This service is available at no cost to the buy-side.

If you are a VC, PE firm, family office, or an accredited investor seeking crisis-alpha, decorrelated, or impact investments, contact us today. Orgon Bank is your trusted partner for discovering high-quality, rigorously analyzed investment opportunities.

Alternative Investment Banker (Private Placements)

You Will Raise Capital

Raising USD 200M+ by connecting U.S. lower and middle-market companies with smart capital: We specialize in facilitating strategic partnerships between growing businesses and VC/PE/FO investors. If you're a VC/PE looking for EBITDA-positive companies with significant SOM potential, reach out to us.

Institutional Investors Research

Blockmas®

Founded & led Blockmas, a UK-based algorithmic trading company created to combat the staggering statistic of 90% of retail derivatives traders losing 90% of their capital within 90 days -whilst their brokers/banks absorb those funds. 

We connect individuals with professional quantitative trading. 

Products:

- Copysystems: The first algorithmic trading platform where retail traders can invest, cost-free, in a portfolio of professional trading algorithms, ensuring there are no counterparty risks (B-book execution or unethical market-making practices from banks/brokers).

- Quantitative hedge funds, systematic CTAs, SMAs and CPOs across the United States, Europe, and offshore jurisdictions (exclusively for Accredited Investors).

- Futures trading algorithms in the United States, in partnership with regulated Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs).

- Tailored trading algorithm development for professional traders, retail traders, proprietary trading firms, and brokers. 

- A free trading academy.


Duties:

- Went from 0 to 1, recruiting a small team of executives and non-executives from Southeast Asia & Europe, establishing our Quarterly Strategic Plans, ensuring the utmost professionalism & compliance, and leading the business with the right principles and organizational systems.

- Registered 2 approved trademarks in the United Kingdom.

- Contributed & led our free academy with the development of nearly 100 articles about the brokerage industry, quantitative hedge funds, algorithmic trading, financial markets, and blockchain engineering.

- Built the core product suite: a retail algorithmic trading platform, a placement agent connecting institutional/accredited investors with funds, and a trading academy.

- Signed strategic partnerships with more than 5 trading companies in the United States (confidential).

- Joined The Founder Institute, the largest pre-seed accelerator in the world with HQ in the Valley.

Founder & Executive Chairman - Systematic Trading & Blockchain Engineering

IG Group

New Business Associate for IG, the largest OTC (Over-The-Counter) derivatives brokerage firm in Europe, covering relationships with CFD (Contract For Difference) traders & affiliates for the main EM (Emerging Markets) jurisdictions.

- Built relationships and became the main point of contact for both high-volume and low-volume retail traders (including UHNIs and HNIs). My main preference were algorithmic traders using automated trading systems.

 - Exclusively covered whole regions such as Israel, Saudi Arabia, Monaco, Turkey, Belize, Gibraltar, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Georgia, or Sri Lanka, among many others. 

- Followed an ethical & regulated systematic sales system and met all major regulatory standards.

- Implemented the professional standards to build relationships with experienced algorithmic traders.

- Had the privilege of building professional relationships with some of the largest retail traders of our industry that no many brokers would be able to onboard.

- Always acted as an intrapreneur by generating proposals to implement corporate innovation in the organisation.

Associate

Independent

Professional algorithmic trading developer creating portfolios of low-frequency & decorrelated trading models, indicators, and trading innovations. 

I am specialized in momentum, trend-following, mean-reversion, and break-out models in all kind of derivatives: ETDs (exchange-traded derivatives), blockchain derivatives (synths & perps), and OTCDs (over-the-counter derivatives). 

I target CAGRs of 40%+ with MSDs% of ~10%, very low Uclers,  Sharpes of 2+, high RRRs, PFs over 2.5, intraday A-book execution, and progressive guaranteed trailing stops of 0.3%. 

Our low-frequency trend-following, mean reversion, momentum, and break-out models function as liquidity takers, extracting market inefficiencies in any type of volatility and having gone through radical Monte Carlo, Robustness, & Walk Forward Optimization tests.

Skilled mainly with Pro Real Code but converting models to C#, ADL, AFL, Python, C++, Easy Language, AML, MQL4/5, or even Pine Script, and trading with a broad range of languages, platforms, and underlyings.

I offer a portfolio of low-frequency trading models to retail traders as well as introducing brokerage services. If you would like to invest in institutional-grade trading systems, do not hesitate to contact me. 

Algorithmic asset management has allowed me to deeply understand how the quantum laws of the space-time works, and to apply a systematic decision-making process to everything in life.

Github (free trading models): frankdetroya
Tradingview (momentum analysis): franciscofdetroya

Professional Algorithmic Trading Developer

BDSwiss

Account Executive for BDSwiss, one of the largest derivatives brokerage firms in Europe.

- Based in the Madrid office, I was specialized in covering relationships with Latam-based CFD (Contract For Difference) traders.

- Followed regulatory standards from the Financial Services Authority (Seychelles) and the Financial Services Commission (Mauritius).

- Implemented a systematic and ethical sales process.

- Achieved consistently our OKRs. 

- Provided institutional-grade investment analysis to our traders.

*I voluntarily resigned from the position to join the IG Group.

Account Executive

Vote.vin

Vote is an electoral management company allowing citizens to vote in parliaments
directly from their smartphones.

Our mission is to bring democracy to the 21st century, giving every citizen on earth his
birthright of deciding on local, regional and national regulations, increasing
transparency and decentralization between parties and citizens, and ending up with
electoral frauds in non-developed and developed nations.

Venture Builder - Online Democracy

FXGM

Retention Account Executive for the CFD broker FXGM in the Maltese office (+300 employees). FXGM was a subsidiary of Invesus, one of the former largest retail brokerage holdings in the world with more than 5 sub-brands and +1.000 employees. 

Duties:

- Managed dormant, active, churning, and FTD (First-Time-Deposit) traders based in Spain. 

- Followed strict CySEC regulatory standards, ensuring our systematic sales processes are according to the regulator. 

- Offered institutional-grade investment analysis with macro, micro, quantitative and qualitative methods.

- Achieved some of the largest deposits in the Spanish desk in just a few months.

- Collaborated with my team to implement innovative proposals to increase our OKRs.

*I voluntarily resigned from the position.

Retention Account Executive

I was hired to be the Head of the Spanish Desk, with close to 20 retention account executives in the team.

*I voluntarily resigned from the position.

Head of the Spanish Desk

CENTURY 21®

Real estate sales associate in the world's largest real estate agency. Solid knowledge acquired in sales systems, prospecting, marketing, law and the Spanish real estate market.

Sales Associate

Investment banking & brokerage professional with successful experience in the largest derivatives brokerage firms in Europe -IG, BDSwiss, Invesus, and now, Pepperstone-, as well as leading blockchain & financial companies (Orgon Bank & Blockmas).

Connect with me:

- Email: franciscodetroya at orgonbank.com
- LinkedIn: Articles on alternative investments, investment banking, emerging industries, and technology venture building.
- TradingView: blockmas (+6 years of quantitative analysis)
- GitHub: frankdetroya
- Research articles: I've written close to 100 articles. Access them at blockmas.com or orgonbank.com

Expertise:

- Investment banking: Passionate about all-things investment banking, including private placements, capital markets transactions, M&A, innovative structuring & underwriting, asset management, market making, brokerage, and research.

- Venture building & (intra)preneurship: Passionate about contributing to the establishment of EBITDA-positive technology companies characterized by a clear competitive advantage, executive teams with strong sector experience, non-executive teams with M&A expertise, and robust intellectual property, specially in the investment industry. My management style is based on systematic leadership, a focus on high productivity, and high-value strategic partnerships.

- Financial markets: Extensive experience in algorithmic trading, business development, institutional-grade investment analysis, and quantitative hedge funds & CTAs. 

I deeply believe in polymathy, continuous learning, and living an international lifestyle across different cultures. I have lived in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and originally from the EU.

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