The thesis
The cost of intelligence has fallen faster than any input in business history. What needed a research team two years ago is now an API call. The bottleneck has moved to the operator: which work to hand over, how to wire it in, and how to make it reliable.
This is home ground. Joaquim co-founded Gatewayz.ai, an inference gateway that routes across hundreds of models, and runs a fleet of AI agents across his own companies for research, outreach, operations and reporting. We invest in what we use every day.
The opportunity is widest where AI meets an industry that software never properly reached. There, a small team with the right agents can outrun an incumbent.
Themes
Companies designed from day one for humans and AI agents working side by side, with identity, decision rights, approval gates and audit trails built in.
Agents that own a workflow end to end (sales, support, research, back office) with humans at the checkpoints.
Inference, routing, evaluation, observability and the plumbing that makes AI dependable in production.
AI-first products built for one industry, where domain data and workflow depth are the moat.
Service businesses rebuilt around agents, with software margins and human judgement where it matters.
Agentic autonomous organizations
An agentic autonomous organization (AAO) is a company where humans and AI agents share the work under one rulebook. It says who each agent is, what it may do, which human answers for it, and which decisions must wait for human approval. Governance is built into the operating system, not bolted on afterwards.
We build this way ourselves, and we back founders who do. Studio company FlashyOS publishes an open specification for AAOs, and SafeCommit provides signed, verifiable checks before an organization proceeds with a counterparty. Together, they make agent-run companies accountable enough for real customers, partners and investors.
The one-line definition, in FlashyOS’s published vocabulary.
The manifest that declares every agent, its authority, its accountable human and its approval thresholds.
How decision rights, approval gates and audit trails work in an AAO.
How an organization proves it meets the specification.
Organizations whose agents work in public, on a live floor plan.
Studio companies here
One API for hundreds of AI models: the inference gateway for AI-powered companies.
AI and AAOsRaising · Series AThe operating system for agentic autonomous organizations: a live floor plan for companies run by AI agents.
AI securityStudioSigned, independently verifiable checks on whether it’s safe to proceed with this counterparty, on this exact commit.
AI · creator economyStudioAI matchmaking between newsletters and the brands that want to sponsor them.
What we look for
How the studio helps
Every service below comes from a role Joaquim has actually held. We picked the ones founders in this sector ask for most.
AI agents for prospecting, outreach, qualification and follow-up, wired into a clean CRM. Your pipeline keeps moving while the team sleeps.
Experience · Builds and runs AI lead-generation and outreach agents across his own companies.
Launch strategy, pricing, channels and community-led growth, including token launches for digital-asset companies.
Experience · Co-founded TrustSwap ($400M+ market cap, users in 75+ countries). Alpaca Network’s community round raised $1.2M in 2 weeks.
Positioning, brand, messaging and a plan tied to revenue, from the first campaign to a full marketing function.
Experience · Led an 8-figure brand launch at L’Oréal Canada. CMO at TrustSwap. Youngest person ever on the Canadian Marketing Association’s Martech Council.
Fundraising readiness, investor mapping and warm introductions to angels, funds and family offices. Plus help structuring the round.
Experience · Backed 70+ companies as a founding partner of GDA Capital, including 2 seed-to-unicorn outcomes. Alpaca Network raised $1.2M in 2 weeks. LP at Holt Xchange.
Hiring plans, recruiting pipelines, onboarding and the HR foundations you need before you need them.
Experience · Scaled MLG Blockchain from 4 to 120 employees in 9 months. Built the HR function at Secure Digital Markets as it grew from 9 to 40.
Distributed teams that work: an async cadence, clear tooling, written documentation and a culture that survives distance.
Experience · Has built and run companies from 75+ countries. MLG Blockchain grew to 120 people fully remote.
Partnerships, corporate development and positioning: the relationships that open markets and doors.
Experience · Founding Partner of GDA Capital. Mentor and advisor at Techstars, Founder Institute, Outlier Ventures and FounderFuel.
One-on-one coaching on clarity, energy, decisions and life design, so the person running the company keeps growing too.
Experience · Certified life coach who works with founders and executives on mindset, energy and alignment.
AI companies rarely fail on the model. They fail on distribution, hiring and focus, and that is where we work.
Other sectors
Profitable, community-anchored businesses that we help grow with patient capital and modern tools.
02Robots and autonomous systems moving from the lab into the field, and the software that runs them.
03AI-driven discovery, lab automation and the platforms that make biology faster and cheaper to engineer.
04Automating the physical economy with AI, software and machines: manufacturing, logistics, construction and agriculture.
05The space economy after the launch revolution: data, communications, in-orbit services and the software that ties them together.
06Market infrastructure, tokenized real-world assets, stablecoins and healthy token communities.
07Payments, capital-markets technology and financial services rebuilt for global, remote-first customers.
Work with the studio
Tell us what you’re building and what you need. We read every application, and every founder gets an answer.
