Patrick De La Garza — University Covey

01 // What this is § short read

A named container for the things I say yes to — prototypes, advisory, angel investments, the occasional board seat.

I'm a founder and builder. Currently working on dFusion — a decentralized network where anyone can query verified AI, contribute knowledge, and own a stake in the verified intelligence layer that powers it

University Covey is the Nevada holding entity I use for everything else: select advisory work, angel investments, board and advisor roles, helping Nevada businesses prototype, and involvement in the local ecosystem around EDAWN, NCET, UNR, and the data-center / AI policy conversation.

If you're here because we've met, or we're about to — welcome. Contact is at the bottom.

02 // Current work as of 2026

001 Company dFusion — The Decentralized AI Intelligence Layer Founder & CTO. A decentralized network where anyone can query verified AI, contribute knowledge, and own a stake in the intelligence layer that powers it. Testnet live. Backed by Blockchain Builders Fund. testnet.dfusion.ai ↗

002 Research Late-interaction & neural information retrieval Experiments toward the next generation of search —

003 Research Test-time scaling in silico and in agents Log-scale decomposition, Context Isolation, Verification —

004 Advisory Angel investments & advisory roles Early-stage AI infrastructure, retrieval, and verified-compute teams. Selective. If we haven't been introduced, email is the way in. —

005 Nevada Local ecosystem — EDAWN · NCET · UNR Engaged in the Reno / Northern Nevada conversation around data centers, AI policy, and what a serious technical community here looks like over the next decade. —

03 // Background § context

Undergrad in AI at Columbia. Interned at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. Came up through neuromorphic engineering before the current wave.

The through-line across the last decade has been the same question in different costumes: how do you get more useful computation out of a fixed substrate? First in spiking networks and theoretical neuroscience, now in test-time scaling, retrieval, and verified inference on top of transformer models.

Before dFusion — data and infrastructure work at Zocdoc, Sephora (modernizing their data platform), and Blockseer (acquired).

Education

Columbia University

BA, Artificial Intelligence. Center for Theoretical Neuroscience (intern).

Prior — 01

Blockseer

Blockchain Data intelligence. Acquired.

Prior — 02

Sephora

Modernizing the data infrastructure.

Prior — 03

Zocdoc

Platform & data.

04 // Contact § direct

Best way in is email. No forms, no newsletter, no funnel.