Rafael Jegundo
Board Director at Blocksmith
London, England, Portugal
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Top SchoolRafael Jegundo is an AI-enablement expert and serial founder with 13 years of experience helping startups move from Pre-Seed to Series A while acting as an interim team to de-risk ventures and optimise capital. As founder and Board Director of Whitesmith and CEO of Blocksmith, he blends strategy, implementation and go-to-market execution for AI and blockchain-enabled businesses, with deep expertise in tokenomics and Web3 research. Over the past 12 years he has helped more than 50 startups secure investment across energy, mobility, edtech and healthcare, working with companies such as Ably, Sensée and EDP. Trained as a physics engineer at Universidade de Coimbra, he applies a quantitative, systems-thinking approach to product and fundraising challenges. He is notable for combining hands-on delivery with investor-facing storytelling, often stepping into operating roles to ensure measurable outcomes. Based in London with roots in Portugal, he specialises in turning technical innovation into investor-ready, revenue-focused ventures.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Physics Engineering, Masters Physics Engineering at Universidade de Coimbra
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
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Github Skills (26)
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webapp8
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ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rafaeljegundo/alexandria
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:6 commits in 21 days
ImproveCoimbra/bus-map
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 8 days
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