About Joaquim Miro

Entrepreneur, investor, and global citizen building the future from 75+ countries.

Joaquim Miro is an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor who has spent the last decade building, scaling, and exiting companies while traveling to 75+ countries across every continent.

Born in Montreal, Canada, Joaquim earned his Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management. While at McGill, he was one of the refounders of the TAU Alpha Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon, one of the largest fraternities in the world and now the largest fraternity on the McGill campus. After working at L'Oreal Canada managing an 8 figure budget for the launch of Whole Blends, he moved away from corporate and dove headfirst into entrepreneurship, co-founding his first company while building a location-independent lifestyle that would become his signature.

Building Companies Remotely

Joaquim's entrepreneurial journey includes co-founding MLG Blockchain, a fintech and digital-finance consultancy, where he started as CMO, then served as COO, and scaled the company from 4 to 120 employees in just 9 months — with zero external funding. This hypergrowth experience taught him the fundamentals of remote-first operations, distributed team management, and capital-efficient scaling.

He went on to co-found TrustSwap, a fintech platform for escrow and capital formation that reached a market cap of over $400 million, and Alpaca Network, an AI infrastructure company that raised $1.2 million in a community funding round within just two weeks.

Today, Joaquim is a founding partner at GDA Capital, a venture capital and advisory firm investing in fintech, digital finance and AI. He is also the co-founder of Gatewayz.ai, an AI-powered platform revolutionizing how virtual companies operate.

Investing & Advising

As an active investor, Joaquim has backed 70+ portfolio companies across fintech, financial infrastructure, AI and SaaS. He serves as an LP at Holt Xchange, Canada's most active fintech accelerator, and advises at TechStars, Founders Institute, Outlier Ventures, and other leading programs.

His advisory work spans mentoring founders, judging pitch competitions, curriculum development, and hands-on strategic guidance for startups navigating fundraising, go-to-market, and remote operations.

Regenerate Capital

In 2026, Joaquim founded Regenerate Capital, a venture studio based in Sutton, Québec, in the Eastern Townships. It brings together what he had been doing separately for a decade — investing, building companies and embedding as an operator — into a single relationship with founders.

The name is the thesis: capital should regenerate. It should return to founders as operating experience, to companies as growth, and to the ecosystem as the next generation of builders.

Founder profile on Regenerate Capital →

Life Beyond Business

Joaquim is a father, a Spartan racer, a paraglider, a pianist, and a cook. He is fluent in English, Spanish, and French, and has built a life around curiosity, adventure, and continuous learning.

Through Remote Work Villas, he has curated remote work retreats, bringing together founders, investors, and operators in some of the world's most inspiring locations.

His mission is simple: prove that you can build world-class companies, invest globally, and live life on your terms — from anywhere.

Mission & Vision

Mission

Build & grow together.

To cultivate a community of like-minded, growth-minded, high-integrity people — where we hold each other accountable, create real things, and rise together through shared ambition and mutual trust.

Vision

Raise critical thinkers, not screen consumers.

A generation of children who develop high awareness, deep curiosity, and independent thought — staying as screen-free as possible through early adolescence, grounded in real experience before the digital world takes hold.

Journey Milestones

2010

McGill University

B.Comm, Desautels Faculty of Management

2014

The Alternative Ways

Travel & technology blog reaching 1M+ monthly views through SEO

2016

MLG Blockchain

Co-founded a fintech consultancy and scaled it from 4 to 120 people in 9 months

2019

TrustSwap

Co-founded a fintech platform for escrow and capital formation; reached a $400M+ market cap

2020

Secure Digital Markets

Chief of Staff, scaled from 9 to 40 employees, implemented HR and Marketing systems

2021

GDA Capital

Joined as founding partner: fintech and AI investments

2024

Alpaca Network

Co-founded an AI infrastructure company; raised $1.2M in 2 weeks

2025

Gatewayz.ai

Co-founded AI-powered virtual company platform

2026

Regenerate Capital

Founded a venture studio in Sutton, Québec: invest, incubate, accelerate

Around the World

Bangkok Marathon 2023
Greece — mountains
Via Ferrata — Switzerland
Spartan Race
Thailand — beach
Paragliding
Skiing — French Alps
Paragliding