João Montenegro

Entrepreneur and technologist

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A fusion starship with red radiators and a blue-white exhaust plume, alone against a dark background

Article seriesHow to go interstellar?A series on choosing a destination, crossing the distance, and building a life beyond the Solar System.1 essay published · 7 plannedExplore the series

The 9 most promising interstellar destinationsFrom the series: How to go interstellar?Where to send the first probes, and what to measure before choosing10 Oct 202610 Oct 2026
How to model space travel with AIDesigning, developing and deploying a complex simulation with AI assistants1 May 20231 May 2023
GPT for hardware engineeringA workflow study8 Mar 20238 Mar 2023
Avatars for everythingHow the future of work could be a mix of gaming and robotics10 Jan 202310 Jan 2023
Space warfareAn introduction to conflict in the final frontier10 Jan 202310 Jan 2023
The great inversionHow scalable down-mass capabilities will change the face of space travel9 Jan 20239 Jan 2023

About

João Montenegro

I am João Montenegro. I live in Lisbon, where I am CEO of Darkmatter, which builds AI for complex industries.

I am a serial entrepreneur. I have started and co-founded companies in automotive, e-commerce, edtech and spacetech. The one I spent longest on is ubbu, which teaches computer science to children: I co-founded it and led product and design there from 2016 to 2022.

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Sky

I photograph the sky from my backyard with a small telescope and publish what the measurements support.