Tech leadership for high-stakes startups

I’m Keolo, Partner & CTO at Aliveness Ventures, turning ideas into revenue-generating products.

Fractional CTO for AI, HealthTech & FinTech startups. 20+ years building products and startups.

  • 🚀 0→1 Delivery — 25+ MVPs, Agentic Systems; 4M+ OSS downloads; 4x velocity
  • 🌍 Hyper Scaling — 0→30 team growth, <1% attrition; Pre-seed to Series C
  • 📈 Strategic Impact — Built tech behind 5 startup exits (and counting)
  • 🔐 Compliance — SOC 2 • HIPAA • HITRUST

Startup Engineering Metrics Simplified

The No-BS Engineering Dashboard for Early-Stage Startups You’ve just hit 15 engineers. The product is finding market fit, the codebase is growing faster than your test coverage, and your CEO just Slack’d you: “Hey, we need better visibility. Can we get an engineering dashboard going?” Your first instinct might be to panic-buy an expensive analytics tool, integrate Jira with Tableau, and start tracking every single commit, PR, and story point. ...

August 1, 2026

JOYO

AI-powered leadership coaching platform JOYO delivers personalised leadership development through AI-powered coaching, trusted by institutions like MIT. As Fractional CTO for Aliveness Ventures, I helped turn a slide-deck vision into a market-ready product in six months. ❮ ❯ Challenge Starting with zero technical resources, JOYO needed to validate an AI-powered coaching platform in a competitive market—fast. ...

Global Peace Yes

Digital platform for a planetary peace movement Global Peace Yes is a U.S-based NGO (Special Consultative Status at the U.N.) rallying one billion voices to “live with love over fear.” As Fractional CTO I helped turn a bold vision into an operational, fraud-resistant voting platform. ❮ ❯ Challenge Mobilise one billion verified votes for peace while protecting privacy, blocking fraud and earning public trust, on a nonprofit budget and an aggressive deadline. ...

Riiu

Livestream commerce, same-day delivery Riiu turned pandemic-era bargain hunting into an engaging live shopping experience. Viewers joined livestreams, claimed luxury items in real-time, and received them at their door before the day ended. ❮ ❯ Challenge Stitch an end-to-end commerce stack without writing a monolith. Marketing, SMS alerts, live sales, payments, and courier dispatch all working in harmony. ...