Alex Dantas

“Since childhood, all I wanted to be was an electronic engineer. But life has a funny way to get you what you want”.–Alex Dantas

Born in Brazil, Alex went to a technical high school for mechanical engineering, then to college to become a lawyer, just to drop out one year later to move to the United States to study classical ballet. He then joined the US Army as a watercraft engineer, serving missions in Japan,Dominican Republican and multiple training missions with the Navy Seals.

He also created a security application that was installed in 3% of all Android phones in Brazil.With the mission to bring the electronic and robotic engineers under one roof, in 2017 Alex founded Circuit Launch, which became one of the largest coworking and co-facturing facilities for hardware and robotics startups of the United States. Circuit Launch is the residence of 80 startups, which collectively have raised over $100M within the last 36 months.

Recently he also co-founded mechlabs.ai, a project-based mechatronic engineering program, that is lecture-free, textbook-free, and instructor-free, creating future Ironman and Ironheart engineers.