Alejandro Jiménez de Aréchaga

• iZero to exit in 3.5 years.Founded Beyond Software Development in February 2022. Beyond acquired by Animoca Brands in September 2025.
• ii12 protocols, 6 chains, 0 critical exploits.DEXs, lending markets, NFT marketplaces and infra, architected and shipped end to end.
• iii0 → 50,000 followers, organically.Built the brand's social accounts from nothing, followed by many of the most influential people in the space.
• ivAn underwriter's eye for downside.€120M+ of commercial credit priced before ever evaluating a token.
• vDeals closed personally, end to end.20+ partnerships taken from cold outreach to signature.

(you read it from the roots up. that is the whole story so far.)

1. Sep 2025 · the exitExit

   Beyond → Animoca Brands

   Founder & CEO · acquisition of Beyond

   Three term sheets, five months, every engineer kept.

   • 5months to close
   • 3competing term sheets
   • 100%team retained

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   Goal

   Find the right home for the team and the product, with no down-round and no earn-out cliff.

   Built

   Ran the whole process personally: acquirer and investor outreach, data room, valuation defence, legal negotiation, closing.

   Outcome

   Beyond acquired by Animoca Brands in September 2025 after three competing term sheets. Every engineer stayed through the transition.

   Exit of the Year, Canary Islands Startup Awards 2025.

2. 2024 → 2025 · the protocol companyAward winner

   Beyond

   Founder & CEO · B2B blockchain infrastructure

   The studio's primitives became a protocol company with recurring revenue.

   • 7ecosystem partners
   • $1.4MARR in 11 months
   • 99.95%uptime, 12 months

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   Goal

   Replace project revenue with recurring, protocol-level infrastructure revenue.

   Built

   Repackaged the studio's primitives into hosted infrastructure for L1 and L2 ecosystems under the Beyond name. Set pricing, monetization and roadmap. Closed multi-stakeholder deals from cold outreach to contract.

   Outcome

   Seven ecosystem partners signed, $1.4M ARR within 11 months, 99.95% uptime over the first year, in a volatile crypto market. Then the exit.

   Infrastructure Provider of the Year, Web3 Builders Awards 2024.

   2025 → now · in parallelSecurity award winner

   Satellite

   Founder · a side project, run alongside Beyond

   Whitehat security that scans every EVM contract and pays for itself.

   • 2.3Mcontracts scanned
   • 57verified vulnerabilities
   • $140kin bounties, 6 paid

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   Goal

   Harden every contract deployed on EVM chains since 2018, and fund the research with the bounties it earns.

   Built

   A continuous engine that indexes new deployments across 9 chains, runs layered static and symbolic checks, triages findings and opens responsible disclosure with the affected teams.

   Outcome

   57 verified vulnerabilities disclosed, 6 bounties paid worth $140k, zero incidents on disclosed findings. A self-sustaining loop that hardens on-chain code and turns whitehat research into revenue.

   Best Security Research Tool, DeFi Security Awards 2026. Top-10 researcher on a major bounty leaderboard.

3. Feb 2022 → 2023 · the foundingFounded

   Beyond Software Development

   Founder & CEO · blockchain development studio

   A blank page to twelve live protocols on six chains, and a brand followed by the people who matter.

   • 12protocols shipped
   • $38Mpeak TVL
   • 0 → 50kfollowers, organic

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   Goal

   Become the studio that L1 and L2 ecosystems call first for turnkey DeFi products.

   Built

   Owned protocol architecture, product design and delivery across DEXs, lending markets, NFT marketplaces and Web3 infra. Hired and ran an 18-person team across smart contracts, frontend and UI/UX. Ran the brand and its channels personally.

   Outcome

   Twelve production protocols on six chains, $38M peak TVL across them, zero critical exploits in production. Social accounts grown from zero to over 50,000 followers, with many of the most influential people in the space among them, which fed inbound deal flow.

   Founder of the Year, Canary Islands Startup Awards 2023.

4. Apr 2020 → Feb 2022Early employee

   Revolut

   Product Development

   Shipping consumer finance at hypergrowth speed, inside the rules.

   • 9features shipped
   • +18%activation lift
   • 15M+users reached

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   Goal

   Ship consumer financial features fast without tripping compliance.

   Built

   Joined the product org while headcount tripled. Worked across product, data, risk and compliance, ran experiments and prioritisation frameworks, owned specs from discovery to release.

   Outcome

   Nine features shipped to 15M+ users. An onboarding experiment lifted activation by 18%. Took away the unit-economics and compliance instincts that now drive product diligence.

5. Dec 2018 → Apr 2020

   Crédito y Caución

   Commercial Credit Analyst

   Learned to price the downside before the upside.

   • €120M+exposure assessed
   • 300+corporate files
   • 0.4%loss rate vs 1.1% book

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   Goal

   Set credit limits that let sales grow without blowing up the book.

   Built

   Analysed financial statements, cash flows and sector dynamics. Wrote a structured, downside-first underwriting checklist that the team adopted.

   Outcome

   €120M+ of exposure assessed across 300+ files, with a 0.4% loss rate against a 1.1% book average. The same lens now sits behind every investment call.

   Underwriting checklist adopted across the regional team.

6. Mar → Jun 2018First job · multinational

   Banco Santander

   Intern · Santa Cruz de Tenerife

   First job, inside a bank with 200,000 people.

   • 4months
   • 2teams, relationship and back office

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   Goal

   Learn how corporate and retail banking works from the inside.

   Built

   Supported relationship and back-office teams on client needs, financial products and internal risk processes.

   Outcome

   A working map of how credit decisions, products and clients connect, which led straight into the credit-risk role.

7. Jan 2015 → Jan 2016First venture

   Trabajaparami.es

   Founder, while studying

   First venture, at twenty, with no outside capital.

   • 1,200registered workers
   • 340gigs matched

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   Goal

   Match occasional work with the people who needed it, across the Canary Islands.

   Built

   The website, the operations and the marketing, solo.

   Outcome

   1,200 workers and 340 gigs matched in year one. Learned the whole loop of build, launch and sell.