Lester Philipp Vargas Angeles is a Full Stack Developer, Tech Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of FractalUp. In 2013, Lester co-founded FractalUp: the Live Digital Learning SaaS that humanity needs to empower their educational systems worldwide, using AI that is becoming an essential part of our new normal. Lester is a dreamer whose biggest passion has always been education. This passion has been recognized through his nomination as a Forbes 30 under 30 Fellow in Education in 2015 and then his 2-year consecutive nomination to the ‘Oscar of Education’ 2018-2020 by QS World University Rankings and Wharton in the UK.
His collaboration with international researchers, for example: Qatar Genome, Qatar Biobank, Hamad Medical Corporation, Sidra Medicine, Ministry of Education of Qatar, etc. enable him to foster new educational trends.
Lester has started the expansion of FractalUp to help millions to personalize their online learning, by re-inventing: schools, universities, institutions & corporate training. His work has been recognized with FractalUp by: MIT, Qatar Foundation (World Innovation Summit for Education), Tec. de Monterrey, Intel; and finalist in: ICT Prizes (UNESCO), Early Childhood Authority (ECA) in Abu Dhabi, UNICEF and Expo2020 Dubai. In September 2020 the IDB selected FractalUp as the Most Innovative Startup of Pacific Alliance of Covid-19 Challenge.