Founder · Cape Town

Healthtech.
Crypto.

Mechatronics engineer by training, entrepreneur by default. Five businesses started so far: a wearable, a bitcoin strategy, a climbing outfit, a tutoring company, an arbitrage desk. Different industries, same job: find what people put up with, and build the better version.

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5 started · 3 runningHardware · markets · outdoorsCape Town → global

Now

Current focus

Breaking Penng into corporate wellness: companies tracking the health of their teams.

Breaking Penng into the trainer and gym space: coaches tracking their clients.

Buying the 2026 crypto bottom, and crushing the bull run that follows.

Reading across AI, macro, trades and logistics. The Signal feed below is the live version.

Ventures

Founded & operating

Co-founder

Penng AI

A screen-free health wearable for sleep, recovery, strain and AI food tracking, plus software for trainers to track their clients and companies to track their teams.

penng.ai↗

Founder

XL Trades

Sold the top of the 2025 bull run. One public Bitcoin cycle strategy: every signal, position and result out in the open, refreshed automatically.

xltradesbtc.com↗

Co-founder

Big Rig Climbers

Bouldering crash pad rentals and gear for the Rocklands. Big and small pads by the day, out of Cape Town.

bigrigbouldering.com↗

Timeline

2017 → present

2017

BSc (Hons) Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering

Four years at the University of Cape Town, through to 2020.

Jan 2021

Co-founded Big Rig Climbers

Bouldering crash pads and gear for the Rocklands, rented out by the day from Cape Town. Still operating.

Feb 2021

Founded Gold Tutoring

Built a 1-on-1 and 1-to-many tutoring business from scratch, and ran it for three and a half years.

Nov 2021

Co-founded Arbit Crypto Arbitrage

Co-built and ran an arbitrage operation across global crypto exchanges until September 2024.

Jul 2024

Founded XL Trades

A public Bitcoin cycle strategy: signals, open positions and the full track record, kept out in the open. Still running.

Jul 2024

Cryptocurrency trader at CoinW

Full-time trading out of the United Arab Emirates through to November 2025. Cryptocurrency trading and market analysis at desk scale.

May 2025

Co-founded Penng AI

A screenless wearable and companion app tracking sleep, steps, heart rate, recovery and strain, plus software for trainers to track their clients and for companies to track employee wellness. The current focus.