Summary
Cristian Duguet is a technology founder and CTO with 20+ years of work spanning robotics, spatial intelligence, and AI-driven systems across startups and research environments. Based in Vienna, Austria, he is currently Co-Founder and CTO at cirqular, where he leads the development of cutting-edge perception and robotics platforms, after co-founding nuvo and rotolab.ai. His career blends entrepreneurship with hands-on engineering—from AR indoor navigation using SLAM and sensor fusion to telecom network planning and VLBI radiotelescope instrumentation, illustrating a rare breadth of hardware-software integration. He was selected for Entrepreneur First, reflecting a track record of identifying product-market fit and assembling capable teams. His background includes leadership in data science, machine learning research, and large-scale experimental setups, with a Diplom in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad de Concepción and an MS in Communications Engineering from TU München. He brings a combination of entrepreneurial grit and deep technical depth, turning ambitious ideas into shipped, real-world systems.
10 years of coding experience