Luis Cuende

Founder of CitizenX

Switzerland

Overview

Luis Cuende is the Cofounder & President of CitizenX in Switzerland, known for his roles as Cofounder & core contributor at Aragon and as CEO of Aragon One. He has a track record of successful entrepreneurship in the tech industry and has invested in various companies in sectors like Web3/Blockchain and Web3/Crypto.

Work Experience

CitizenX

Cofounder & President
2023 - Current
CitizenX allows you to find and fund places that welcome you as a citizen.

Aragon

Cofounder
2016 - 2023
Aragon took DAOs from $0 to >$20bn in assets under management, powering some of Ethereum’s heavyweights, like Lido and Curve.

Unpatent

Cofounder & CEO
2016 - 2016
Unpatent was the initial exploration that would eventually lead us to start Aragon. It was a crowdfunding platform to invalidate bad patents. A large number of patents are stupid or obvious and they're actively exploited by patent trolls, extorters that extract $29bn/year from the American economy.

Stampery

Cofounder & CTO
2014 - 2016
We provide a secure and decentralized proof of existence, ownership and integrity using the blockchain.

Telefónica

Firefox OS Developer
2014 - 2014
Did some low-level stuff with Gecko, worked on implementing the Bluetooth Serial Port profile.

European Commission

Advisor to the VicePresident Neelie Kroes
2013 - 2014
I advised Neelie on the topics of technology and education, and urged her to reconsider the dumb cookie banners everywhere

Cardwee

Cofounder
2012 - 2014
Built a platform leveraging Apple Passbook to reinvent loyalty cards

Asturix

Founder
2008 - 2013
My first open source project. Pioneering Linux distribution featuring a new HTML5 desktop environment built from scratch and cool features like facelogin (way before Android and iOS had it!).