Capital · Startups · Governments

Where capital meets founder readiness

We advise funds on how to deploy capital well, governments on how to build ecosystems that attract it, and startups on how to become the companies that deserve it.

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Track record
50+
Companies supported across 20 countries
Programs run
Global
Regions active
EU · LATAM · APAC
Advisory focus
Capital
Fund deployment & LP strategy
Startups
Founder readiness & growth architecture
Governments
Ecosystem & investment architecture
Europe
12 companies
Latin America
8 companies
Asia-Pacific
Ongoing presence
Middle East
Active since 2021

The distinction

Attractive markets get attention. Legible ones get capital.

Most funds and ecosystems compete on incentives. DeWe works on the layer that actually moves capital: founder selection, operational execution, and the architecture that makes a program or portfolio fundable.

"The gap between a fund's portfolio potential and its actual performance is almost always an execution problem."

What we do

Three audiences. One operational discipline.

Each engagement is structured around the specific decision or challenge at hand, not around retainer arrangements that outlive their usefulness.

01
Funds & Investors

Strengthen how you evaluate founders, structure your portfolio support, and build the LP relationships that survive difficult vintages.

  • Dealflow evaluation
  • Founder assessment
  • Investment readiness
  • LP relationship strategy
02
Governments & Institutions

Design innovation programs that produce real outcomes rather than activity metrics, with ecosystem strategy grounded in what capital actually responds to.

  • Innovation program design
  • Ecosystem strategy
  • Talent pathways
  • Capital attraction frameworks
03
Early-Stage Startups

Build the internal architecture to absorb capital productively, from operational structure and process clarity to cohort performance and investor readiness.

  • Operational structure
  • Process clarity
  • Cohort performance
  • Fundraising preparation

Sixteen years across three continents

Our experience comes from running global accelerator programs, advising early-stage teams, and building the infrastructure that connects founders to the capital and partners they need to scale.

50+
Companies supported
20
Countries active
16
Years operating
3
Continents
Europe Portugal · UK · Netherlands · Germany
Latin America El Salvador · Brazil · Mexico · Colombia
Asia-Pacific Bali · Singapore · UAE
Middle East Saudi Arabia · UAE
Nelson Lopez
Nelson Lopez
Founder & Principal
Current
CEO, XFounders Accelerator
Web3 & AI · 30+ portfolio companies · 20 countries
Previously
Global Head of People & Operations, Gate.io
Top 5 global crypto exchange · scaled across 50+ markets
Previously
Head of Operations, 1inch Network
Leading DeFi protocol · $10B+ in cumulative volume
Speaker
International forums
Europe · Middle East · Latin America
Published in
Líder Magazine · Diario El Salvador
Venture capital · AI policy · Ecosystem development

Who we are

Pattern recognition earned across markets.

Nelson Lopez has spent sixteen years at the intersection of venture capital, startup acceleration and emerging market ecosystems. As CEO of XFounders Accelerator and former Global Head of People and Operations at Gate.io and 1inch, he has built and scaled organisations across conditions that most advisory work never encounters.

His work spans founder development, fund deployment logic, LP relationship strategy and jurisdiction-level investment architecture. He advises funds on how capital actually moves, institutions on what ecosystems need to attract it, and founders on the gap between fundable and merely interesting.

He writes on venture capital, AI sovereignty and innovation policy, and speaks at international forums across Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. He is based across Portugal, Bali and El Salvador.

Venture Capital Startup Acceleration Emerging Markets Web3 & AI Ecosystem Strategy Fund Advisory
"Capital moves past opportunity, and toward certainty. My job is to build the certainty."

Nelson Lopez

What people say

"Nelson understood the operational reality of what we were doing, going well beyond the thesis. The visibility he created was targeted and specific."

Aly Mtsumi

Co-Founder, ElementPay

"He engaged with us on the specific mechanism and substance of what we were building, at a level of technical depth that made the relationship immediately useful."

Victor Amaya

Co-Founder & CEO, Ciro AI

"He has a strong intuition for the dynamics underneath the surface, the things that don't show up in an org chart but determine whether people can actually operate well together."

Dennis Daiber

Co-Founder, Bitwala

"He built real standing within the team through delivery. We knew where he stood, trusted his judgment, and followed his lead when it mattered."

Marie Tatibouet

Former Chief Marketing Officer, Gate.io

"That combination, moving people toward difficult outcomes while keeping the relationships intact, is rare, and it was directly responsible for how smoothly the project progressed."

Giovanni Cunti

CEO Europe, Gate

Work with us

The first conversation is a diagnostic.

If there is a fit between what you are working on and where we can add value, we define the engagement from there. No retainers, no templates, just the work that needs doing.