Alberto escarlate

CTO, ProducT leader. Founder. Investor. PROFESSOR.

As a fractional CTO (and head of product) I help venture funds and their pre-seed to series A startups to build and scale their products and teams. I also provide strategic advice on business models, fundraising and tech diligence support.

TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCT LEADER
- Fractional CTO and Head of Product, various early-stage startups
- Founding CTO, Skylyte
- Founding CTO, Throwing Fruit (acquired by CHNL Holdings)
- Founding CTO, Entertainment Media Works (series C)
- Head of Product, Levo League

REPEAT FOUNDER
- Founded Hugo Labs at Human Ventures studio
- Co-founder, CTO, Sojo Studios ($120MM exit)
- Founded Citizen Data at Collaborative Fund
- Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Human Ventures, Techstars

MENTOR, ADVISOR, INVESTOR
- Visiting Faculty, Cornell Tech. Co-head of Startup Studio.
- Mentor, Techstars, DayOne, Founder Institute, Tandem
- Adjunct Professor, Parsons School of Design
- Venture Partner, Collaborative Fund

BIO

After launching and scaling Skylyte, I am now opening my focus and working with multiple early stage startups as Fractional CTO. Skylyte is a startup using machine learning to address mental health in the workplace. We were part of the Fall 2022 Techstars Workforce accelerator. I also teach the Startup Studio at Cornell Tech, a class where students co-found their own startups, developing their ideas, products, and pitches.

In early 2018 I joined Human Ventures as an Entrepreneur-in-residence and founded Hugo Labs – a mobility company disrupting school transportation. Hugo's mission is to acquire and grow school transportation businesses by deploying innovative technology and implementing efficient, unified operations.

Before that, I built the next generation in media networks as the founding CTO of Throwing Fruit. The company had a successful exit and was acquired by a global media company. Before joining Throwing Fruit Alberto was the CEO of Paris-based collaboration service, FileChat .

As a Venture Partner at Collaborative Fund I invested in companies like Makespace, Hopscotch and GoTenna and incubated Playful Data – an online reputation manager for kids. Before becoming a VC I co-founded a social good-focused gaming company, Sojo Studios , that attracted investors like Ellen DeGeneres and Justin Bieber because of its mission. I also co-founded TigerTag, the first global lost & found service, an early precursor of the Internet of Things.

At Entertainment Media Works (as founding CTO) I built services that allowed viewers to buy products from TV, movies, and music videos through partnering with leading entertainment studios, music labels and brands.

In the early days of the Internet, I led projects for a long list of corporations that include AT&T, Delta Airlines, General Motors, IBM and Kraft Foods, among others. I have nanodegrees in Self-Driving Engineering and Deep Learning from Udacity, a degree in Computer Science from The Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro, a Masters in Computer Engineering from The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and was a teacher at Parsons School of New Design for eight years.