Carlos Araya
Carlos Araya took an uncommon path: he spent decades training others in Costa Rican academia before founding an artificial intelligence company based in Silicon Valley. He is the founder and CEO of Singularities.
Key facts
- Company: Singularities (founder and CEO).
- Field: Automated reasoning, symbolic artificial intelligence, and generative methods.
- Academic background: Professor and former head of the Computer Science Department at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology; founder of Cenfotec University.
- Origin: Costa Rican.
Why he is a leader
While much of the world focuses on generative models, Singularities bets on combining them with something older and more rigorous: automated reasoning and symbolic artificial intelligence. Its platform, called Aleph, seeks to unite formal deduction with generative methods to solve problems such as demand forecasting and supply chain optimization.
The company received a seed investment round led by Carao Ventures, Costa Rica’s main venture capital fund, in 2018. But beyond the investment, what distinguishes Araya is his dual footprint: before becoming an entrepreneur, he spent more than twenty years as a professor and head of the Computer Science Department at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, and he founded Cenfotec University. In other words, he helped train the country’s technical talent before building a company with it.
His contribution to the ecosystem
Araya is a bridge between two worlds that rarely touch: academia and frontier entrepreneurship. His trajectory shows that a Costa Rican can contribute to the most sophisticated conversation in AI, that of how to combine reasoning and learning, while keeping a firm foot in training local talent.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Carlos Araya?
- He is a Costa Rican academic and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Singularities. He was a professor and head of the Computer Science Department at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology for more than two decades and founded Cenfotec University.
- What is Singularities?
- It is a company founded by Carlos Araya, based in Silicon Valley with operations in Costa Rica, that develops the Aleph platform. Aleph combines automated reasoning and symbolic artificial intelligence with generative methods for problems such as supply chain optimization.