I am an innovative Entrepreneur and Business Angel who has a passion for building winning teams and scalable organisations

Ally Gale

Product Lead

"Having worked with Felipe on a software delivery project from a start-up phase, he was an absolute professional in every aspect of the work involved. We always felt in safe and trustworthy hands. He is a true leader and was always calm, friendly and approachable."

David Morgantini

Engineering Leader

"You can simply trust Felipe to do the right thing in the right way. Felipe has underpinned the successful delivery of multiple key systems and has consistently demonstrated his strengths across delivery teams."

Maurizio Lupo

Senior engineer manager

"I was amazed to see how Felipe always takes initiative on improving things. He has a great capacity of going over the extra mile and deliver a product over the user expectations."

David Roncero

Emprendedor y Consultor

"Creative, innovative, inquiring, proactive, organized and methodical are his personal skills that with his education and his experience make him the best professional to work with."

Ally Gale

Product Lead

"Having worked with Felipe on a software delivery project from a start-up phase, he was an absolute professional in every aspect of the work involved. We always felt in safe and trustworthy hands. He is a true leader and was always calm, friendly and approachable."

David Morgantini

Engineering Leader

"You can simply trust Felipe to do the right thing in the right way. Felipe has underpinned the successful delivery of multiple key systems and has consistently demonstrated his strengths across delivery teams."

Maurizio Lupo

Senior engineer manager

"I was amazed to see how Felipe always takes initiative on improving things. He has a great capacity of going over the extra mile and deliver a product over the user expectations."

David Roncero

Emprendedor y Consultor

"Creative, innovative, inquiring, proactive, organized and methodical are his personal skills that with his education and his experience make him the best professional to work with."

Ally Gale

Product Lead

"Having worked with Felipe on a software delivery project from a start-up phase, he was an absolute professional in every aspect of the work involved. We always felt in safe and trustworthy hands. He is a true leader and was always calm, friendly and approachable."

David Morgantini

Engineering Leader

"You can simply trust Felipe to do the right thing in the right way. Felipe has underpinned the successful delivery of multiple key systems and has consistently demonstrated his strengths across delivery teams."

Maurizio Lupo

Senior engineer manager

"I was amazed to see how Felipe always takes initiative on improving things. He has a great capacity of going over the extra mile and deliver a product over the user expectations."

David Roncero

Emprendedor y Consultor

"Creative, innovative, inquiring, proactive, organized and methodical are his personal skills that with his education and his experience make him the best professional to work with."

Felipe Polo
Felipe Polo
Felipe Polo

About me

As an entrepreneur and investor, I am dedicated to building high-performance teams and scaling companies to reach their full potential

My career started with a bunch of organisations that taught me how NOT to lead teams, projects and companies. That nearly got me out of the software industry - until I was lucky enough to move to London, where my life completely changed: I understood there is a right way to set a working culture and SYSTEMS - only through building communities of highly motivated teams.

I used that knowledge to co-found a tech company called GuideSmiths in 2014, and launched the Madrid office in 2017. I managed to grow a development team up to 120+ people from scratch in 7 years and 3 countries. GuideSmiths quickly thrived and in March 2021 we sold our business to DCSL Software, creating DCSL GuideSmiths - now One Beyond.

After the GuideSmiths venture, I came to realise how key building a great team is when it comes to growing, scaling up and selling a company. I learnt there is science behind the creation of high-performance teams, and so I created my new project Team Hackers to help other businesses scale up.

I also invest in Startups as Business Angel and try to help them through mentoring in accelerators like Seedrocket, Demium or IE Venture Lab.


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