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Alvaro Lorente / Venture portfolio

Products are where strategy earns its keep.

I build technology ventures across AI, developer tooling, platform engineering, security, decision intelligence, and creative software. The work keeps my advice grounded in the same uncertainty, tradeoffs, and delivery pressure founders face.

01 / Selected work

Built close to the problem.

Each venture starts with a real constraint, not a technology trend. The result is a portfolio of deliberate bets on where software can remove friction or create leverage.

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DevOps intelligence

OctoLaunch

A DevOps intelligence platform that connects deployments, CI/CD activity, incidents, and production signals into a shared investigation context.

What it demonstratesTurning fragmented operational data into faster root-cause analysis and clearer engineering decisions.

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03
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Decision intelligence

Simulmarkt

An AI-powered platform for validating products, pricing, positioning, messaging, and market opportunities using simulated audiences.

What it demonstratesReducing product uncertainty by testing consequential market decisions before committing real time and money.

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04
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Creative technology

VFXBeat

A local-first creative tool for generating music videos with synchronized visual effects, lyrics, and social-ready formats.

What it demonstratesCombining media processing and approachable workflows in a product that keeps creative work private and local.

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05

Consumer AI

Owlumi

A creative experience for generating personalized stories and imaginative adventures for children and families.

What it demonstratesShaping approachable AI experiences around trust, creativity, and a specific family ritual.

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06
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Supply-chain security

PwnedPackages

Tools and experiments for identifying risky, compromised, or malicious software dependencies before they reach production.

What it demonstratesApplying security intelligence at the point where engineering teams make dependency decisions.

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07
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Engineering productivity

Barklarm

A desktop app that centralizes build and monitoring alarms natively in the operating system.

What it demonstratesMaking critical delivery signals visible without adding another dashboard to monitor.

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02 / Operating principles

Useful technology leadership is an operating discipline.

01

Start with the constraint

Understand the business pressure, customer behavior, and team reality before selecting architecture or process.

02

Ship to learn

Reduce uncertainty through deliberate increments, observable systems, and feedback that informs the next decision.

03

Design for change

Build systems and teams that can evolve without turning every new direction into a costly transformation.

Your next decision

Bring an operator’s perspective into the room.

For founders navigating architecture, delivery, AI adoption, or the next stage of an engineering organization.