Hey! I'm Alex ツ I'm an entrepreneur, industry researcher, and investor. I'm currently a Programme Director at [ARIA](https://www.aria.org.uk/). Current projects - [Secured by Nature](https://www.aria.org.uk/emerging-areas) -- early exploration of novel information security tools based on physical and biological laws, in order to shape an 'opportunity space' and ultimately a programme around - [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 Past projects - [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 quantitative trading funds trading crypto assets - [Zero Knowledge London](https://www.meetup.com/zero-knowledge-london/events/?type=past) -- meetup series on applied cryptography and privacy-enhancing 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 - AI science: local-first AI-driven applied sciences as a new paradigm for scientific innovation, and related movements such as bio-hacking, fab labs - 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, using entanglement for energy transmission - Manufacturing: improving and modernizing manufacturing processes we rely on (metal manufacturing, paper), universal manufacturing r&d - Data: approaches to systematizing the collection of "physical world" data critical to train models 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) - Volunteer with Ethereum Foundation's [Next Billion Fellowship program](https://nxbn.ethereum.foundation/) - 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) Please feel free to reach out about anything in this page you'd like to chat about 🪷