Federico De Ponte
Founder of floom, AI Beavers SF Chapter Lead
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| 2001, Hamburg, Germany |
| Citizenship | German and Mexican |
| Based in | San Francisco, California |
| Education | CEMS MIM, Nova SBE; BSc, KLU |
| Known for | Founder of floom; AI Beavers SF Chapter Lead (founding) |
Federico De Ponte is a German-Mexican entrepreneur based in San Francisco and the founder of floom, a platform that turns developer scripts into live web applications accessible to non-technical users. He is the founding Chapter Lead of AI Beavers San Francisco, a community for builders working at the intersection of AI and software development, and is based at Founders, Inc. at Fort Mason.1
De Ponte was born in 2001 in Hamburg, Germany, and holds dual German and Mexican citizenship.1 He completed his Abitur at Helene-Lange-Gymnasium Hamburg in June 2019. He went on to study business at KLU in Hamburg before completing a CEMS Master in International Management (MIM) at Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, part of the CEMS global alliance of business schools.1
De Ponte is the founder of floom (formerly known as fasta and RunIt), a developer infrastructure platform that converts Python scripts into deployed web applications with a UI, REST API, and MCP server endpoint.21 The target user is not the developer who writes the script, but the non-technical knowledge worker or operations manager who needs to run it — people who cannot open a terminal. A developer writes a script annotated with the floom protocol (floom.yaml, main.py, requirements.txt), publishes it to the platform, and end users interact with it through a generated interface without touching any code.2
The product is designed with AI agent distribution in mind: the protocol is agent-discoverable, meaning AI assistants can find, invoke, and compose floom-powered tools programmatically. De Ponte is raising a pre-seed round to grow floom from prototype to product.1
De Ponte is the founding Chapter Lead of AI Beavers San Francisco, part of a global network of communities organised around builders working with AI coding tools and autonomous agents.1 The SF chapter operates out of Fort Mason, the same campus as Founders, Inc.