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Miguel Acosta
Arquetipo Studio SL
Founder and CTO
Miguel M. Acosta is an aerospace systems engineer, deep-tech entrepreneur, and AI scientist whose career sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and European defense. Over nearly two decades, he has designed certified autonomous aircraft for some of Europe's most demanding defense programmes, led the technology of a computing defense company through its acquisition by a national prime, and is now building the venture studio that aims to industrialize the deep technologies Europe must own to remain sovereign.
Today, Miguel is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of *Arquetipo*, a Europe-first venture studio for sovereign deep tech, and also the founder of *Utmost Research Capital*, an investment firm.
Miguel's doctoral research introduces the Stored-Intention Paradigm — a Harvard-autonomous architecture for certifiable, AI-driven autonomous flight. The work addresses one of the hardest open problems in the field: how to certify learning-based decision-making for safety-critical operations within existing aviation and defense frameworks.
Earlier in his career, Acosta served as Chief Technology Officer of Clue Technologies, an aerospace computing company applying machine learning and high-performance computing to defense and safety-critical systems, which was acquired by Indra — Spain's national defense and technology prime — in 2024. Before Clue, he spent more than fourteen years at Airbus Defence & Space, where he led R&D for Autonomous Systems and AI, and was an architect of the certified autonomous unmanned aerial systems-of-systems concept developed under the NATO ASPAARO programme. As Head of Predictive Analytics at Airbus, he helped shape Skywise — the aviation data platform Airbus built together with Palantir on its Foundry technology — and led the data platform and predictive AI analytics tools for SmartForce, an internal Airbus Skywise-like product for defense. His engineering work has shaped production-grade autonomy stacks now in operational service across European defense.
Beyond his industrial and academic work, Acosta writes and lectures on artificial intelligence, technological sovereignty, and the philosophy of autonomous systems.
Miguel speaks regularly on European technological sovereignty, certifiable AI for safety-critical systems, dual-use venture building, and the future of autonomous defense.Today, Miguel is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of *Arquetipo*, a Europe-first venture studio for sovereign deep tech, and also the founder of *Utmost Research Capital*, an investment firm.
Miguel's doctoral research introduces the Stored-Intention Paradigm — a Harvard-autonomous architecture for certifiable, AI-driven autonomous flight. The work addresses one of the hardest open problems in the field: how to certify learning-based decision-making for safety-critical operations within existing aviation and defense frameworks.
Earlier in his career, Acosta served as Chief Technology Officer of Clue Technologies, an aerospace computing company applying machine learning and high-performance computing to defense and safety-critical systems, which was acquired by Indra — Spain's national defense and technology prime — in 2024. Before Clue, he spent more than fourteen years at Airbus Defence & Space, where he led R&D for Autonomous Systems and AI, and was an architect of the certified autonomous unmanned aerial systems-of-systems concept developed under the NATO ASPAARO programme. As Head of Predictive Analytics at Airbus, he helped shape Skywise — the aviation data platform Airbus built together with Palantir on its Foundry technology — and led the data platform and predictive AI analytics tools for SmartForce, an internal Airbus Skywise-like product for defense. His engineering work has shaped production-grade autonomy stacks now in operational service across European defense.
Beyond his industrial and academic work, Acosta writes and lectures on artificial intelligence, technological sovereignty, and the philosophy of autonomous systems.
Miguel speaks regularly on European technological sovereignty, certifiable AI for safety-critical systems, dual-use venture building, and the future of autonomous defense.
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