Hey! I'm Alex ツ I'm an entrepreneur and occasional angel investor. Currently - I'm a programme director at the [Advanced Research & Invention Agency](https://www.aria.org.uk/) where we fund r&d moonshots that can benefit the UK and the whole world - My focus there is on [Scaling Trust](https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything-everywhere/scaling-trust/), a £50m r&d programme funding open infrastructure for AI agents operating across digital and physical worlds to enter into 'contracts' securely, programmatically, at scale, and without intermediaries - This matters because it will - increase the speed, and reduce the cost of finding counterparties, negotiating, and enforcing contracts (i.e. ‘Coasean transaction costs’) - enable new classes of contracts that were previously infeasible - support a pluralistic, self-sovereign, polycentric AI future - We plan on getting there by funding - new fields of fundamental research in physical verification, AI security and multi-agent coordination - open-source tools, datasets and reference agent implementations - publicly-accessible open-ended adversarial evaluation environments to measure and stress-test multi-owner multi-agent systems in real settings Past projects - [Quantum Punks](https://quantumpunks.org/) -- cross-disciplinary community exploring the use of quantum cryptography to build a safer internet, defend digital rights, and accelerate the next era of quantum technologies - [Flashbots](https://flashbots.net) -- r&d org dedicated to keeping decentralized financial systems transparent, efficient, and fair through open research, open-source software, and community engagement - [Cambrial]() -- portfolio of market-neutral crypto quantitative trading funds - [Zero Knowledge London](https://www.meetup.com/zero-knowledge-london/events/?type=past) -- meetup series on applied cryptography and other privacy technologies - [Access](https://www.accessthemusic.co.uk/) -- city-themed electronic music parties Additional interests - Innovation systems: how innovation has been, is, and could be organized in the future to tackle new problems - Real-world decentralization: enabling technologies such as new energy transmission, local manufacturing improvements, at-home bio synthesizers, coordination protocols that accelerate real-world decentralization at city levels and below - Progress and tech policy: improving our society's 'shock absorbers' to dampen the incoming 'shocks' we are facing (eg. AGI, climate disasters) and accelerate the rate at which we can absorb shocks, especially interested in bottom-up approaches - Space tech: use-cases enabled on earth by novel space technologies, satellite-based quantum communication, asteroid mining, moon industries, AI robots in space - Energy tech: batteries r&d, distributed energy generation & storage, fusion - Manufacturing: improving and modernizing manufacturing processes we rely on (metal manufacturing, paper), universal manufacturing r&d Advising, investing, volunteering (modulo COIs) - I advise [Chainbound](https://chainbound.io) - Invest angel checks in teams building r&d orgs and frontier tech - LP checks in crypto quant trading funds - Sometimes invest with other angels via [deep crypto](https://deepcrypto.xyz/) and [deep quantum](https://deepquantum.xyz) - Sometimes issue grants for open/public-good initiatives Contact - [twitter](https://twitter.com/ObadiaAlex) - [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandreobadia/) - [github](https://github.com/obadiaa) Feel free to reach out about anything on this page you'd like to chat about 🪷