Ivelin Ivanov is a venture advisor and serial entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building open source platforms, developer tooling, and privacy-first AI products from Austin, Texas. He founded Mobicents and Telestax—open source telecom middleware projects that scaled to enterprise adoption and an acquisition—and later created Ambianic, an open source smart camera focused on privacy-preserving AI. More recently he’s been shaping web3 founder ecosystems through Sporos DAO and the Founder Institute while co-founding GuardianUI to automate natural-language-driven end-to-end testing for web3 UX and security. A persistent open-source contributor and perpetual learner, he blends product strategy, developer community building, and hands-on engineering across telecom, AI, and blockchain domains. His background includes enterprise leadership at Red Hat and early-stage investing, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and go-to-market experience.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Sofia University
Contributions:139 commits, 5 PRs, 129 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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Ivelin Ivanov - Venture Advisor at Founder Institute