Jose Miguel Noblecilla

Venture Capital | Head of Technology & AI @Valor Capital Group

São Paulo, Brazil

About

I’m from a tiny Peruvian town deep in the Andes, learned to code at 8y, started college at 15y and reached the ICPC World Finals. First AI experienced was at Wolfram Alpha. In 2014, I joined Wildlife Studios as their first data scientist, building the entire analytics stack from zero. In 2021, I founded a Series A VC–backed B2B farm-to-table startup. Now in VC, I spend my time working with great founders and looking for more of them. “There are three ingredients for success—aggressiveness, timing and skill—and if you have enough aggressiveness at the right time, you don’t need that much skill.” – Howard Marks

Experience

  • Head of Technology & AI at Valor Capital Group
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    I spend my time working with great founders and looking for more of them.

  • deco (1 yr)
    • Chief Technology Officer
      Sep 2024 - May 2025 · 9 mos

    • Advisor
      Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 · 4 mos

  • Arado (Full-time · 4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Co-Founder and Board Member
      2021 - Mar 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    • Co-Founder and CTO
      2021 - 2024 · 3 yrs

      Built & Led Engineering & Product from scratch to Series A. Actively fundraising along with the CEO, raised US$25M with top-tier VCs in the US. Driving growth to double-digits (usd) ARR.

  • Director of Engineering | Data & ML at Wildlife Studios
    Jun 2014 - Nov 2021 · 7 yrs 6 mos

    Early employee 2014, company ~25 people, zero data. First Data Scientist/Engineer. Built all the core data systems, hired and managed more than 40 engineers between Data and ML, responsible end-to-end data lifecycle from infrastructure to ML models. I left to start my own company.

  • Research Engineer at Wolfram|Alpha LLC
    2013 - 2014 · 1 yr

    First Data and AI experience. I developed and maintained data infrastructure of Wolfram|Alpha, from text ingestion, NLP processing and query optimization for geospatial data (using polygon vertex reduction techniques)