Diogo Valdivieso

Diogo Valdivieso is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Waffle, an artificial intelligence startup based in London, United Kingdom. He established the two-person company alongside co-founder Manuj Mishra in 2025, subsequently securing acceptance into the Y Combinator X25 accelerator program. Prior to developing AI tools for web applications, Valdivieso worked as an independent mobile game developer and created the original title Battle Arena. He successfully scaled this gaming application to reach a global audience of over one million active users distributed across seventy different countries. Valdivieso earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) before dropping out of his master's program to pursue entrepreneurship. His current professional focus centers on building consumer technology platforms that enable users to generate personalized artificial intelligence agents and custom web applications.