Building a better future for journalism.
We’re building Futuria, an innovation lab to create a new generation of media that thrives embodying the spirit of web3. We will achieve that through a community led media accelerator that provides consulting and tech infrastructure to our media partners.
OUR WHY
We strongly believe that the common notion that journalism is in crisis is wrong. Journalism isn’t in crisis, what’s in crisis is a certain type –centralized, ad-based– of media company.
Journalism is one of the key tools that those of us who lack power have to strengthen and decentralize our democracy. That’s why we are launching this effort to help build the media companies of the future, that will not only provide information as a public good, but also be profitable and self-sufficient while they do it.
OUR WHY ROADMAP
We strongly believe that the common notion that journalism is in crisis is wrong. Journalism isn’t in crisis, what’s in crisis is a certain type –centralized, ad-based– of media company.
Journalism is one of the key tools that those of us who lack power have to strengthen and decentralize our democracy. That’s why we are launching this effort to help build the media companies of the future, that will not only provide information as a public good, but also be profitable and self-sufficient while they do it.
Our Team TEAM
You might be asking: why you? Simply put: we’ve walked the walk. Our team created and developed la diaria, one of the biggest media operations in Uruguay, for the last sixteen years, driving it to 3 million dollars in yearly revenue with a sustainable business model that is almost entirely (91%, to be exact) subscription based. It´s also one of the only major media publications in LatAm that is a worker-owned cooperative.
Summoned by la diaria, our fully doxxed team comprises a wide range of high achievers from various backgrounds ranging from developers and legal experts to people with years of experience in journalism and investing.
Evan Henshaw-Plath
Evan was the 1st Employee at Odeo (founder of Twitter), introduced oAuth to Yahoo and was a researcher at MIT Media Lab. He co-founded and built neo.com consultancy and is the founder and CEO of planetary.social. He was VP of Engineering for YC backed crypto security startup Quantstamp. Evan helped found and grow the Indymedia network, an independent and alternative group of media activists.
María Catalina Colmenares
María has more than 15 years of experience in media management and investment analysis. During eight years she worked at Media Development Investment Fund as an investment analyst and Director of their LatAm division.
Damián Osta Mattos
Damián is an entrepreneur in the media business. He co-founded and was the manager of la diaria for fifteen years. Currently he´s the Head of Innovation and Product. Damián also co-founded Utopía, an open-source media management software.
Pedro Copelmayer
Pedro is a writer and entrepreneur. He is the first specialized crypto columnist in Uruguay and published his own fiction book. Apart from dabbling into crypto since 2017 and being a core team member in OpenAccessDAO he is a partner in BroLi, a bootstrapped social bookstore that has donated over 2700 books to dozens of public schools without libraries.
Advisors
Lisandro Acuña
Lichu is an 18 year old argentinian developer. He achieved many distinctions both in math and computer science olympiads. Among the many technological projects he did, the one that has transcended the most is LectO, a free text editor that makes reading and writing easier for more than ten thousand people with dyslexia worldwide. He recently received a full ride scholarship to Stanford.
Agustina Perez Comenale
Agustina is a legal expert, right now advising Binance in its LatAm expansion. She´s a professor of LegalTech at the University of Montevideo, a co-organizer of the LegalTech Summit and a member of the Chamber of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence at the Catholic University of Córdoba.