To anyone reading,
I started programming at fourteen. Originally a fine arts student who ended up in tech in the early 2000s. I spent my early years dabbling in different languages until I found my way into startups in 2013, where I co-founded the first Bitcoin exchange in the Philippines.
When that got acquired in 2015, I started a software company doing blockchain development for enterprise clients. That period taught me how to be a founder-operator and how to manage people. Both of which I’m still learning how to do better.
I went on to do a few more projects after that. In 2019 I founded Warpgate as a holding company to consolidate everything I was working on under one roof. A few ventures lived under it over the years. The most public was a game studio that raised and shipped an Unreal Engine title on Epic Games in 2024. There was also an accounting tool, plus a few smaller experiments.
By early 2026, AI had quietly changed how operations get done. One person could now do what a department used to. There’s a name for it in some circles, tokenmaxxing — when a company’s AI bill becomes a real line item, but each unit of it replaces a meaningful chunk of headcount.
This is our current chapter. We’re building software and providing consulting for established businesses who want to bring AI into their operations, and are still looking for the right partner to help them do it.
Warpgate is self-funded. I prefer to stay close enough to the businesses I work with that I can help them operate what we build over time.
If you’d like to talk, email me at hello@warpgate.ventures.