Barcelona · Founder & CEO of Kudzu Partners
I build tools that help people learn, decide and grow.
I’m Joaquim. Since 2016 I’ve run Kudzu Partners, the company behind Pro Evaluation System and Eureka Simulations: assessment and simulation tools used by business schools such as IESE, IPADE and UIC Barcelona. I’ve been writing software since I was twelve, I still write most of it myself, and when I’m not building for work I’m building games.
- 2016Founded Kudzu Partners
- 50+Institutions using our tools
- 10K+Evaluations a year on PES
- 12Age I started programming
01 Now
What I’m working on
A snapshot of where my time goes, updated September 2026. Everything else I run or build is further down.
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Praesia
Practise business decisions every day, prove them in rated simulation play and earn credentials anyone can check.
Building -
Pro Evaluation System
Growing PES, our platform for 360° feedback, competency assessments and surveys with automated reports.
Live -
Eureka Simulations
Business simulations for universities and business schools: run one of ours or build your own, in your language.
Live -
CoCEO
Digital twins of real experts, built from their own material and under their supervision, to consult on real decisions.
Early access -
Football General Manager
My online football-management game. Solo careers are live and shared online leagues are in public beta.
Beta -
NetHack in the browser
The real NetHack 3.6.7 running in the browser through WebAssembly, with a Game Boy-style pixel view.
New
02 Work
Companies & products
Most of what I build lives under Kudzu Partners, a Barcelona company I founded to help people work and learn better.
Learning & assessment03
Pro Evaluation System
360° feedback, competency assessments and surveys with automated reporting, so people grow from feedback instead of paperwork.
Eureka Simulations
Ready-made or custom business simulations for higher education, in any language, with automatic scoring.
Also IESE SimulationsHalignLeaderApp360Praesia
The proof layer for business judgement: daily practice, rated play and verifiable credentials that expire unless you prove them again.
AI & productivity03
CoCEO
Consult digital twins of real experts whenever you have a decision to make: no calendars, no fees, built with each expert's supervision.
Canvapps
An agentic canvas: pick AI agents from a library, drop them on a canvas and configure them in plain English.
Tu Día
The fastest way for teams to report their daily shifts: compliant time tracking that also keeps an eye on how people feel.
Engineering01
Tales
The multi-tenant PHP platform I wrote. It serves this site, the product landings, the SaaS apps and the games from one codebase, while its sibling, Archimedes, runs the simulations and PES.
03 Games & side projects
I started programming to make games
And I never stopped. These are the games I make and the sites I build for the people and stories I care about.
Games04
jukimv1986.com
My games hub: the Visual Basic, assembly and Excel games I wrote as a teenager, next to the browser games I make now.
Beta leaguesFootball General Manager
Build a football dynasty: sign the stars, run the club and win it all, alone or against other managers in online leagues.
NewNetHack
The classic roguelike, compiled to WebAssembly with my own browser front end and a Game Boy-style pixel view.
Co-founderMandarina Games
The indie studio I co-founded in 2014 with Sergi Valls. Our 2D skeletal-animation plugin for the Unity Asset Store ended in a deal with Unity.
Side projects02
Rereguarda
Isidre Virgili i Pons's research on economic repression and political responsibilities in Republican Catalonia (1936-1939), published online. In Catalan.
Football fan sites
Fan sites that follow the careers of young footballers, from the academy to the first team.
Jan VirgiliLamine YamalPau CubarsíMarc BernalMarc GuiuJesús Fortea04 Writing
Ideas I keep coming back to
The skills that matter most, like judgement, leadership and communication, are the ones schools barely measure. Most of what I build tries to change that.
Manifesto
“Universities measure grades, not growth. It’s time to change that.”
The Invisible Curriculum: why the skills that shape careers go unmeasured, and what measuring them would look like.
CommunicateLeadAdaptEmpathizeCreateCollaborate Interactive fictionThe Recursion Protocol
A choose-your-own-adventure story narrated by an AI that notices you reading, even when you open the developer tools.
05 About
From code to companies
I studied Business Administration and Computer Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, spent an Erasmus stay at the University of Calabria for its artificial-intelligence department, and later did the Executive MBA at IESE Business School.
In between I worked for data2impact in the UK, BSI in London, elAbogado.com in Barcelona and Accenture, while building companies on the side. I’ve lived and worked in Rotterdam, London and Barcelona.
What ties it together is a simple belief: the skills that make or break a career can be made visible, measured and developed, and software is how you do that at scale.
- Executive MBA, IESE
- Business & Computer Science, UAB
- Based in Barcelona
- Age 12First gamesIn Visual Basic, assembly and even Excel. They’re still playable on jukimv1986.com.
- 2010Co-founded CanvappsMy first startup, with Roger Marsal. I left in 2014 and wrote down five lessons.
- 2014Co-founded Mandarina GamesWith Sergi Valls. Our Unity plugin ended in a deal with Unity.
- 2015–2017Executive MBA at IESEA transformative experience, done while working at Accenture.
- 2016Founded Kudzu PartnersSimulations first, then assessment with PES; now Praesia and CoCEO too.
- TodayStill shippingSee what I’m working on now.
06 · Contact
Have something in mind? Let’s talk.
Business schools, companies, investors, fellow builders, or someone who just enjoyed one of the games: I read everything.
or email joaquim.virgili@kudzupartners.com