Carlos Alvarez-iglesias
Founder & Managing Director at IFFE Business School
Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
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Top SchoolCarlos Alvarez-iglesias is a founder and managing director with over two decades of experience building and advising deep-tech and life-science startups from pre-seed to Series A. He has worked with 100+ startups across agritech, cleantech, medtech and more, specializing in business modeling, market research, investment readiness and go-to-market operations. As founder of Knowledge Investors he pioneered a services-for-equity model and now sits on multiple boards while operating as a venture partner and mentor for leading foundations and accelerators. He combines strategic investor judgment with hands-on commercialization support—helping research teams translate lab breakthroughs into fundable products and scalable businesses. Based in Galicia, Spain, he also teaches and advises at multiple institutions, bringing uncommon cross-border experience from Paris to Washington to Spanish innovation ecosystems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic connector who turns technical IP into market narratives that attract capital and partners.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master Market Research & Marketing Strategy, Master Market Research & Marketing Strategy at Sciences PoMaster European Studies, Master European Studies at Universidad Pontificia ComillasSaint Louis University-MadridThe American University of ParisBachelor Business Administration, Bachelor Business Administration at Georgetown University
Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (84)
record-linkage10
lda10
thesaurus10
semantics10
intelligent10
similarity10
entity-resolution10
statistics9
knowledge-graph9
nlp9
semantic9
dbpedia9
graph9
semantic-similarity8
python8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gsi-upm/sitc
Feb 2016 - Mar 2022
Notebooks for learning intelligent systems - GSI - UPM
Contributions:136 commits, 3 PRs, 168 pushes in 6 years 2 months
intelligent-systemsupmmachine-learningnotebooksgsi
gsi-upm/gsicrawler
Feb 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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