# Gabriel Vorbeck

Machine readable CV, structured for agents and parsers. Last updated 2026-11-04. Human readable portfolio: https://gabbyvorbeck.com. Index for agents: https://gabbyvorbeck.com/llms.txt

## Identity

- name: Gabriel Vorbeck
- preferred_name: Gabby
- website: https://gabbyvorbeck.com
- contact: Telegram or LinkedIn DM
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielvorbeck/
- x: https://x.com/GabbyVorbeck
- telegram: https://t.me/gabbyvorbeck
- location: Lisbon, Portugal
- time_zones: works US and Asia hours
- languages: five (details on request)

## Summary

Partnerships and business development operator in crypto and AI. Grows products through strategic partnerships. Three partner led launches: Timeless X (1.5M users), The Innovation Game (from $0 to a $60M peak market cap) and Altana (native wallet option in BNB Agent Studio). Through line: wallets, from a consumer social wallet, to an account abstraction wallet, to Smart Agentic Wallets for AI agents.

## Core skills

- Partnerships and BD: inbound triage, partner selection, deal structuring, integration management, long term partner relationships
- Ecosystem growth: launches with networks and protocols, hackathon tracks, grants, listings, community programs
- Systems: partner CRMs built from scratch, pipeline tracking, executive dashboards, reporting
- Communication: monthly investor updates, briefs and recommendations, public announcements, X content
- Operations: cross functional project management with founders, engineers and external teams
- Events: speaking, conference presence, logistics, awareness campaigns
- Fundraising: investor relations and updates for a pre seed company

## Experience

### Altana Network, COO and Cofounder

- dates: 2025-07 to present
- type: cofounder, remote
- company: the self custodial stack for sovereign agentic finance. Agents get Smart Agentic Wallets that transact on any open protocol within limits the owner sets through scoped onchain session keys. Live on BNB Chain and Ethereum, Celo next. Started as Functor Network; rebranded to Altana at mainnet launch, July 2026.
- scope: BD, partnerships, fundraising, communications, operations, for a two person founding team
- highlights:
  - Made Altana a native wallet option in BNB Agent Studio (v2 launch, August 2026); agent seller path shipped in Agent Studio v3
  - Ran the Best Built with Altana track in BNB Chain's Smart Money Era hackathon, Season 1 (August 5 to September 9, 2026): 60 projects shipped on Altana, 1.4K testnet transactions
  - Secured a Celo ecosystem grant (Prezenti Frontier Pool) to expand to Celo
  - Shipped mainnet after a CertiK audit (July 2026)
  - Functor was selected for YZi Labs' EASY Residency Season 3 and graduated; pitched at Demo Day at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View (April 2026)
  - Wrote 14 monthly investor updates (August 2025 to September 2026)
- metrics:
  - registered keys on the Altana keystore: 1,196 as of 2026-11-04 (live at https://explorer.altana.network)
  - npm downloads: 11.8K across four packages as of September 2026
- sources:
  - https://altana.network
  - https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/bnb-agent-studio-v2-your-agents-your-rules
  - https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/altana-in-bnb-agent-studio-agents-with-limits-you-set
  - https://www.bnbchain.org/en/hackathons/smart-money-era
  - https://explorer.altana.network
  - https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=altananetwork
  - https://skynet.certik.com/projects/altana
  - https://x.com/EASYResidency/status/2057632796928270343
  - https://x.com/FunctorNetwork/status/2077053817137345015

### The Innovation Game (TIG), Business Development Lead

- dates: 2024-08 to 2025-07
- type: full time contract
- company: a protocol that turns proof of work into open algorithmic breakthroughs, with a mission to keep AI open. Token on Base.
- role: first hire. Led market growth and ecosystem expansion.
- highlights:
  - Led the token's market growth and ecosystem expansion from $0 to a $60M peak market cap (CryptoRank all time high market cap $61.18M)
  - Built TIG's presence across the Base ecosystem and brought it to Aerodrome
  - Got TIG listed on CoinGecko, DexScreener and CryptoRank
  - Owned partner relationship management; built and ran the internal CRM for contacts and initiatives
  - Led events end to end: speaking engagements, conference presence, logistics, ecosystem awareness campaigns, company merch
  - Produced content for TIG's X account from podcasts, interviews and community calls
  - Project managed growth and operations initiatives with the founding team; supported the COO on operations; worked on strategy with the founders and the strategy lead
- reason_for_leaving: to cofound Altana full time
- sources:
  - https://tig.foundation
  - https://cryptorank.io/price/the-innovation-game

### Timeless Wallet, Director of Partnerships and Growth

- dates: 2022-11 to 2024-04
- type: contract
- company: consumer social wallet; Timeless X is its account abstraction wallet
- highlights:
  - Launched Timeless X with Linea and ConsenSys (December 2023), with Pimlico and Web3 Analytic on the infrastructure side; Timeless X was the official account abstraction wallet in Linea's DeFi Voyage
  - Co led the launch campaign with Linea and 9 ecosystem partners: 202K users in 6 days; a second campaign reached 750K users in seven weeks
  - Timeless X reached 1.5M users during the tenure
  - Built a 30+ partner network inside the app: chains, DeFi, messaging, onramps, identity and security
  - Recruited and managed junior team members and contributors
  - Ran the partner pipeline from first contact to live integration
- sources:
  - https://paragraph.com/@gabbyvorbeck/timeless-social-journey-account-abstraction-what-s-to-come
  - https://linea.build/blog/bringing-account-abstraction-to-linea-with-timeless-pimlico-and-web3-analytics
  - https://linea.build/blog/your-guide-to-account-abstraction-on-linea
  - https://x.com/timelesswallet

### Timeless Wallet, Project Manager and University Network Lead

- dates: 2022-04 to 2022-11
- type: freelance
- highlights:
  - Launched the Timeless Wallet beta: 2K beta users, 15K waitlist
  - Founded the university network: 50+ blockchain clubs in 6 months
  - Built a CRM for 450+ partner contacts and executive dashboards for real time reporting
  - Coordinated internal teams and external contacts through each onboarding step, from outreach to activating each university community in the app

### Harmony, Business Development and Grant Operations

- dates: 2021-09 to 2022-06
- type: freelance, Palo Alto
- roles: Grant Operations and Analytics (2021-09 to 2022-04), Business Development for DAO Operations (2022-04 to 2022-06)
- highlights: grantee management, DAO partnerships, analytics

### Stitch Consulting, Business Analyst Consultant to Consultant II

- dates: 2021-02 to 2022-06
- type: full time, New York
- highlights: custom Salesforce solutions for financial services clients; built 5 to 10 executive reports and dashboards per client per year

## Before tech

- Former professional goalkeeper in Ecuador and the Philippines
- Tinkering with crypto since 2017; working in the industry since 2021; building wallets since 2022

## Keywords

partnerships, business development, ecosystem growth, developer ecosystems, open source, AI agents, agentic finance, wallets, account abstraction, smart wallets, session keys, stablecoins, payments, DeFi, BNB Chain, Ethereum, Base, Linea, Celo, hackathons, grants, CRM, investor relations, go to market, launches, cross time zone partnerships