Member Directory

David Dacruz is an independent engineer who advises startups, local businesses, and SaaS teams on technical SEO and visibility in AI search. David draws on over ten years of technical search work and a full-stack development background, having joined the launch team of 42 Lisboa, the Lisbon campus of the 42 Network. David is now building AI automation workflows and production software for founder-

Igor Sakac is the founder of Defkt, a Lisbon company that builds and operates AI agent systems for software testing. Clients keep ownership of the finished system, which can run on Defkt's own SDK or be built fully custom inside their environment. Igor's current focus is a QA agent harness and governance, and his working stack includes Claude, Gemini, Qwen, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex and GitHub C

I'm building FAIR, an acquisition radar for tech founders who want to know who could buy their company before they need a buyer. Each week FAIR ranks likely acquirers, explains why each one fits, and flags M&A moves in your niche. I've spent 15+ years as a founder, advisor and board member (X23 Capital, Drummond Advisors, Founder Institute mentor, Fundação Dom Cabral). Happy to talk with founders

Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and 42Lisboa. AI and autonomous systems.

Gerard Kavanagh is founder and CEO of Automatos AI, a Lisbon company that builds an open-source, API-first backend for developers building AI agent products. Gerard has published the main repository on GitHub, where it lets people run teams of AI agents on their own computers with Docker Compose. His current focus is Automatos OS and Automatos Academy, a training track for AI architecture certific

I'm looking for investors; I have strong, proven products and am open to discussion.

Rahul Kumar is the founder of GeniusAI, an applied AI consulting and engineering firm in Lisbon that builds AI agents, knowledge graphs and voice systems for teams in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and technology. He describes himself as an applied AI scientist and has published open source work on GitHub. Rahul is also building Timeln, an app with a second brain feature that helps

Evgenios Skitsanos is CEO of Gedank Rayze in Lisbon, a company that builds AI products, multi-agent systems, LLM integrations and DevOps and IoT software for enterprise clients. He is behind CogniGraph, a Rust database combining JSON documents, graph relationships, full-text and vector search, and he maintains open source projects such as mindtree and foxx-builder on GitHub. Evgenios is now extend

Tycho Luyben is Founder and CTO of AppSalad, a Lisbon-based company that designs, builds and runs B2B SaaS products on its own hosting and monitoring stack. Tycho has more than two decades of experience in IT services and financial IT, and has been Chief Technology Officer at Other Pay since December 2022. At AppSalad, Tycho works on nine in-house products, including Flexlists, TraceTap, KissUptim

Noyan İDİN is the co-founder and CEO of Decktopus, an AI presentation builder that helps people create on-brand slide decks and proposals in minutes without doing design work. Before starting Decktopus in 2020, Noyan worked as a product manager at Algebra Global Technologies and co-founded Aracı, where he served as CTO. He studied electronics and communication engineering at Izmir Institute of Tec