Quiubas to Twilio. 95 percent of Mexico's SMS infrastructure, bootstrapped to 70 million USD ARR with eighteen people. Now building Saptiva AI, the AI infrastructure layer underneath regulated Latin American enterprise.
Saptiva AI is the orchestration layer underneath every AI workload running inside regulated LatAm enterprises. Model-agnostic. Environment-agnostic. Running across cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped environments.
Banks, governments, and hospitals do not run their AI on foreign infrastructure. They run it on Saptiva AI.
Routes workloads, enforces policy, and audits decisions across any model and any environment. Swap the model. Change the cloud. Saptiva AI routes around it.
Banking, insurance, healthcare, education, government. The verticals where data locality, auditability, and local compliance are not features. They are the entry ticket.
Saptiva AI engineers embed inside customer operations until production impact is real. Not a vendor that hands off after implementation. The team that owns the outcome.
“Saptiva is recognized for its leadership in on-premise AI architectures, with high standards of security and data governance.”
Universidad Iberoamericana · April 2026Active angel investor and LP across early-stage LatAm startups. Operator-grade guidance rooted in building a continental-scale company from zero. Focus on infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech.
Bootstrapped Quiubas to dominance of Latin America's messaging layer. Captured 95 percent of Mexico's SMS market and 70 percent of LatAm, became Google's number one vendor across 21 countries, and reached 70 million USD ARR with 18 employees before the Twilio acquisition. Proof that global infrastructure can be built from Mexico.
Early software augmentation business out of Guanajuato, delivering enterprise software to US agencies including FEMA in the aftermath of major hurricanes. Among the first in Mexico to operate the augmentation model that later became industry standard.
A live snapshot of where my time goes this quarter. Updated as the work moves.
Embedding engineers inside enterprise customers across banking, education, and government. The model that makes AI actually land in regulated environments.
Public launch alongside Secretary Marcelo Ebrard. NVIDIA-validated, fine-tuned with 500K+ Mexican datasets, runs on infrastructure inside Mexico.
Advocating for data locality mandates in CDMX government deployments. Saptiva AI as the infrastructure layer underneath public sector AI.
A first-principles argument for why every regional economy needs an AI infrastructure layer it controls. First draft in progress.
Selective angel checks in infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech. Looking for technical founders with global ambition built from the region.
For two decades, the region's most critical digital systems have been outsourced to foreign platforms. That dependence is not a preference. It is a structural risk. Saptiva AI exists to end it.
Foreign clouds operate under foreign law. The US CLOUD Act compels American providers to hand over data on demand, regardless of where it is physically stored. For regulated LatAm enterprise, this is disqualifying.
CNBV, CNSF, INAI, BACEN, CMF. Data locality mandates are tightening across the region. European GDPR established the trajectory. The enterprises that architect for controlled infrastructure now will not have to retrofit later.
LatAm has the talent, the capital, and the demand. What it has lacked is the orchestration layer. Saptiva AI is that layer. Not a reseller. Not a model. The control plane underneath it all.
Selected coverage on Saptiva AI, AI infrastructure, and building continental-scale technology companies from Mexico.
Construido por Saptiva AI con infraestructura on-premise. La Universidad Iberoamericana se posiciona como una de las primeras del país con IA bajo control institucional.
Read →Saptiva AI construyó el LLM nacional de México. El secretario de Economía, Marcelo Ebrard, anunció que el país se suma a Brasil y Chile con un modelo propio.
Read →Cómo KAL, construido por Saptiva AI, abre el camino hacia una infraestructura de IA controlada desde México.
Read →Angel on AI's transformative applications in automation and banking, the push for data sovereignty, and why open-source models matter for the region's future.
Watch →From bootstrapping Quiubas to Twilio. The lessons that now power Saptiva AI's continental infrastructure play.
Watch →Quiubas grew from millions of texts per day in Mexico to LatAm's largest aggregator. The same playbook now drives Saptiva AI.
Read →Angel y Jesús Cisneros sobre cómo vender mucho con pocos empleados, construir con mentalidad global desde LatAm, y por qué no levantaron capital para crecer.
Watch →Angel and Jesús Cisneros recount controlling 95 percent of Mexico's market before the Twilio acquisition.
Watch →Long before SMS was mainstream, Angel bet on infrastructure. Same instinct now shapes his bet on AI.
Read →Two paths in. Pick the one that matches what you need. Each one reaches me directly.
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