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Not the first time. The second.

Saptiva AI is not the first time this team has built critical infrastructure for Latin America. It is the second time. That distinction matters more than any credential on a resume — because the skills that got Quiubas from zero to regional dominance over thirteen years are the same skills required here, applied to a harder problem.

002 / Track Record

Twenty years ago, we built Latin America's messaging backbone.

Quiubas Mobile started with no venture capital, no institutional backing, no strategic advantage other than a willingness to navigate regulated enterprise and carrier procurement for longer than most founders are willing to try. Thirteen years later it was processing mission-critical communications for telecom operators, banks, and enterprises across the region, and was acquired by Twilio.

Quiubas was not a consumer app. It was regulated infrastructure that could not fail. Operating it required navigating compliance across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously, building high-availability systems with strict uptime requirements, earning the trust of enterprise and government buyers with long sales cycles, and integrating into legacy systems that resisted change.

These are not adjacent skills to what Saptiva AI is building. They are identical skills applied to a harder problem.

95%
Market share
in Mexico
$6M
Monthly recurring
revenue at peak
61
Countries
served
2020
Acquired
by Twilio

Google's #1 vendor in 21 countries. Zero dollars of venture capital raised. Thirteen years of compounding execution. The founders are not learning how to do this. They are doing it again.

003 / Founders

The Cisneros brothers.

001 · AC
Angel Cisneros
CO-FOUNDER · CEO

Angel Cisneros

Operator. Builder. Founder, twice.

Angel founded Quiubas Mobile from zero — no venture capital, no institutional backing, no founding team from a prestige incubator. He bootstrapped a carrier-grade messaging platform across 61 countries over 13 years until it became the dominant regional infrastructure for enterprise and government communications across Latin America.

Quiubas reached ~95% market share in Mexico, ~60% across Latin America, $6M in monthly recurring revenue at peak, and served as Google's #1 vendor in 21 countries. It was acquired by Twilio in 2020.

The pattern there matters. Angel is not the founder who raises a round, hires aggressively, and tries to manufacture traction on a two-year timeline. He is the founder who works on the same problem for thirteen years in a row, with compounding rather than explosive execution, and is still in the room when the hard conversations happen. That is a rare profile, and it is the one this kind of infrastructure requires.

In his own words
I sold Quiubas to Twilio after thirteen years. I could have stopped. I didn't. Not because I needed to. Because I saw something bigger that nobody else was building. The AI infrastructure layer for an entire continent. I want to build something so significant that Quiubas becomes a footnote.
Angel Cisneros Founder & CEO, Saptiva AI
002 · JC
Jesus Cisneros
CO-FOUNDER · COO

Jesus Cisneros

Operations. Jurisdictions. Systems that cannot fail.

Jesus co-built Quiubas Mobile alongside Angel. Thirteen years operating mission-critical communications infrastructure across Latin America taught him a specific discipline: how to keep regulated systems running across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously, at five nines, with enterprise and government customers who treat a failed message as a regulatory event.

Enterprise AI infrastructure needs exactly this discipline. Running inference under CNBV, BACEN, CMF, and CNSF frameworks — at the same time, across different customers, against different residency requirements — is the exact problem Jesus has spent two decades solving in a different layer of the stack.

The operational backbone of Saptiva AI is his. If something is running in production today, he is the person accountable for it still running tomorrow.

004 / Leadership

The team behind the team.

003 · RE
Ronald Escalona
SVP · ENGINEERING

Ronald Escalona

Builds organizations that ship fast without breaking things.

Former SVP of Engineering at Platzi, the largest edtech platform in Latin America, where he led engineering teams building systems used by millions. Founder of OpenSinergia. He knows how to scale platforms under rapid growth without replatforming — the execution profile Saptiva AI needs at this stage.

004 · CH
Cris Huertas
CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER

Cris Huertas

Sold to the exact buyers Saptiva AI is targeting.

Founded Morgana, the largest digital mortgage broker in Mexico. Led the LBO of Mexico's second-largest mortgage player. Former Head of Latin America at Bnext. Sold regulated financial products to the exact buyers Saptiva AI is targeting — their workflows, compliance constraints, and internal politics known before the first meeting.

005 · CL
Carlos Lara
HEAD OF PRODUCT

Carlos Lara

Translates infrastructure into products that executives buy.

Founded Point CRM. Technical depth combined with the ability to translate complex infrastructure into products that non-technical executives buy. In a market where the buyer is a transformation leader evaluating outcomes — not an engineer evaluating architecture — that translation ability closes deals.

005 / External Voices

Not our words. Theirs.

The people below have watched the team build the first time, or work alongside them now. Their reads on execution pattern, market timing, and founder-market fit are what we hear from operators and researchers who know the territory.

I
Angel challenges his team to keep building out the products and details and solve the customer's problems. He's willing to do this day in and day out for weeks and months and years in a stable way. Some people have the curse of the entrepreneur and run after shiny objects. Angel is a good entrepreneur who can stay focused for ten years and more.
John Lauer
2× Exited Founder
OpenMarket · Zipwhip
II
Saptiva AI's founders have a rare, proven track record in technology company building: they built and grew Quiubas into a regional powerhouse, acquired by Twilio, entirely without VC funding. Now they have set their sights on building the future backbone of LatAm's AI economy, addressing the region's real challenges of scalability, compliance, and accessibility. I believe they will win.
Miguel Solano
CEO & Co-Founder
VMind AI · Saptiva AI Advisor
III
Saptiva AI is uniquely positioned at the intersection of the world's cutting-edge AI development and LatAm's rapid regional adoption. Having been deeply involved in both sides of this landscape, I immediately recognized their potential. A team with a proven track record, a bold vision, and a distinct thesis that gives them a unique competitive advantage.
Andres Campero
Research Scientist, MIT
Founder, RIIAA & Stateoftheart AI
006 / Join Us

The hardest infrastructure problem in Latin America. Staffed accordingly.

We hire a small number of engineers, forward deployed engineers, and operators each quarter. The work is unglamorous in the good sense: regulated enterprise, production systems, long sales cycles, and the satisfaction of building something a continent actually runs on. We treat this like Quiubas — durable execution over explosive narrative.

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007 / Get In Touch

Build with the team that did it before.

Prospective customers, partners, candidates, and press — the fastest path in is a direct email. A real person on this team will read it.

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