Ricardo Garcia-AmayaFounder

United States - San Francisco, California

Ricardo is the founder & CEO of ILUMA (the AI copilot for C-level and team leads), founder of the YCombinator Alumni group ($600B valuations & 25 Unicorns), founding Governance Committee member of the YC Orange DAO ($80M fund & 1,000+ YC founders building the future of Web3) & founder of the group of the Top American Latinx Tech Leaders ($16B exits by founders & $120B to invest). He is a founding equity partner of Acrew Capital and active angel investor through his family fund, Nilo Ventures.

ILUMA is the AI copilot for C-level & team leads that acts as your eyes and ears inside your company - identifying problems before they occur and helping you make the right decision every time.

Previously Ricardo was the founder of VOIQ ($7M raised) backed by YCombinator and other top Silicon Valley investors, building Voice Conversational AI products.

Ricardo is recognized as a Silicon Valley Top Diverse Tech 40 Under 40. Ricardo is an Aspen Institute Tech Fellow and an NYU Stern Innovation fellow.

Prior to VOIQ, Ricardo was an Associate at the NYC Mayor’s Office under Michael Bloomberg developing the technology blueprint for New York City. He also was campaign CTO to mayor Angel Taveras; the first Latino mayor of the City of Providence, RI.

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.