Carmen Alfonso Rico

Founder 😇

2021 - Current

We are VCs turned angels supporting founders as their in-house VC. Angel checks + VC hacks & network +EQ 😇 We invest ~$500k angel checks at the first institutional round. And we don’t give a damn about stake: we don’t have a minimum ownership stake and we don’t follow-on. Free to be 100% on your side of the table. 😜 We have been VCs. We know how VCs think & operate. And we have the network of a VC. 🤟 We become your in-house VC: here to help you hack the system from the inside, with independent & unfiltered investor insights. And EQ. And chocolate ;). ❤️‍🔥 We back Killers with a Heart: brilliant beasts building because it's inevitable to them. 💜 We are backed by mission-driven institutions, supporting children’s health, public education, and cutting-edge research. Check out our founders' deck: https://bit.ly/cocoapitchesfirst 🍫💙

Angel Investor 🍫

2022

AI-powered systems for the metals industries

Angel Investor 🍫

2022

DevOps for 3D design - interoperability, collaboration, automation & version control

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Fractile develops AI hardware (chips) with in-compute memory, for faster inference.

Angel Investor 🍫

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Tilebox streamlines in-house data pipeline management and distributed workflow orchestration for satellite data.

Angel Investor 🍫

2022

Motion design tool.

Angel Investor 🍫

2024

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Angel Investor 🍫

2025

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2024

Security teams have a data engineering problem. At the intersection of data and cybersecurity, Ziggiz is building - a semantic layer that contextualizes data and significantly reduces processing and storage costs - an intelligent data analytics platform to enable analytics, complex search and the development of AI applications across cyber datasets