TruthRadeoAbout

Local sound. Global map.

Map-first audio network for scenes, sets, and voices. Building calm tools for creators and playful experiences for listeners—starting with TruthCast, TruthMap, and GeoBoosts.

Phase
Visualization → MVP
Creators
52+
Pilot cities
5
Advisors
6
Building in public (select previews)
Our Storyroots in community radio

Scenes begin in bedrooms, basements, and community stations. We’re packaging that energy into a network that respects context: map-first, time-aware, local by default. Audio first; video can join later.

We focus on two loops: the Creator Loop (go live, earn, measure) and the Demand Loop (GeoBoosts, reporting, repeat). When both hum, cities compound.

Valueswhat guides us
Creators first
We earn trust by helping artists and hosts thrive.
Map-first
Local scenes are the atomic unit of culture.
Privacy by design
Opt-in location, geo-fuzzing, transparent controls.
Open rails
APIs for partners, portable data for creators.
Reliability as craft
Low latency, graceful failure, observability.
Playful rigor
Serious engineering, joyful products.
Teamsmall, senior, hands-on
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Malik Nelson
Chief Executive Officer
Malik leads TruthRadeo’s company vision and go-to-market. He’s scaled creator platforms across multiple cities and built programs with DJs and independent venues. Previously partnerships at a live-audio startup and strategy at an urban publisher.
📍 NYC / GlobalEmail
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Romario Foster
Chief Technology Officer
Romario architects the map-first, audio-centric stack. Prior: realtime infra (WebRTC, SFU fanout), adaptive bitrate, and a serverless event bus at multi-million session scale. He designs privacy-forward geo models and believes reliability is a product feature.
📍 TorontoEmail
Roadmap Previewmilestones & gates
M0 • Foundations
Auth, ingest, fanout, payments skeleton
M1 • Creator MVP
TruthCast audio + tips, analytics v1
M2 • Demand MVP
GeoBoost pricing/checkout + reporting
M3 • Private Beta
5 pilot cities, case studies
M4 • Seed Ready
Repeatable loops & unit economics
We’re Hiringfounding roles
Founding Frontend Engineer
React/TS, WebAudio/WebRTC, performance.
Founding Backend Engineer
Go/Node, event bus, Redis/Kafka, infra.
Streaming Engineer (RTC)
SFU/SVC, ORTC, congestion control.
Contactintros welcome
Generalhello@truthradeo.xr
Partnershipspartners@truthradeo.xr
Investorsinvestor@truthradeo.xr
Presspress@truthradeo.xr
TruthRadeoAbout

Local sound. Global map.

TruthRadeo is a map-first audio network for scenes, sets, and voices. We’re building calm tools for creators and playful experiences for listeners—starting with live audio (TruthCast), city-level discovery (TruthMap), and simple monetization (tips & GeoBoosts).

Phase
Visualization → MVP
Creators in pipeline
52+
Pilot cities
5
Advisors
6
Founded
2025
Building in public (select previews)
Our Story
roots in community radio & club culture

Music scenes don’t start on charts—they start on streets, in bedrooms, backrooms, community stations. We’re packaging that energy into a network that respects context: map-first, time-aware, and local by default. The stream comes first. Video can join later.

We’ve designed TruthRadeo around two tight loops: the Creator Loop (go live, earn, measure) and the Demand Loop (GeoBoosts, reporting, repeat). When both loops hum, scenes compound—city by city.

Values
what guides our choices
Creators first
We earn trust by helping artists and hosts thrive.
Map-first
Local scenes are the atomic unit of culture.
Privacy by design
Opt-in location, geo-fuzzing, transparent controls.
Open rails
APIs for partners, portable data for creators.
Reliability as craft
Low-latency, graceful failure, observability everywhere.
Playful rigor
Serious engineering, joyful products.
Team
small, senior, hands-on
Malik Nelson
Chief Executive Officer
📍 NYC / Global
Malik leads TruthRadeo’s company vision and go-to-market. He’s scaled creator platforms from zero to multi-market pilots, built city programs with DJs and independent venues, and published playbooks on local-first growth. Previously: partnerships at a live-audio startup, strategy at an urban culture publisher. He believes the best distribution is community and the best community is local.
Email Malik
Romario Foster
Chief Technology Officer
📍 Toronto / Remote-first
Romario architects the map-first, audio-centric stack. He’s obsessed with latency, observability, and elegant DX. Prior: led realtime infra (WebRTC, SFU fanout, edge-cache design) for a social audio product serving millions of sessions; authored internal libraries for adaptive bitrate & packet loss concealment; shipped a serverless event bus handling billions of events/month. Romario also designed privacy-forward geo models (tile-level fuzzing, k-anonymity thresholds) and believes reliability is a feature: auto-healing microservices, budget-aware autoscaling, and backwards-compatible APIs. Fun fact: he builds modular synth rigs that mirror his service mesh.
Email Romario
Aya Kim
Head of Design
📍 Seoul
Crafts the TruthRadeo language: calm surfaces, playful motion, and tight accessibility. Ex-music app & ticketing design systems.
Diego Alvarez
Head of Product
📍 CDMX
Owns roadmap and creator loops. Former PM for creator monetization—tips, fan clubs, and city ambassador programs.
Dr. Leila Rahman
Head of Data
📍 London
Signals > vanity. Builds the listening graph, cohort analytics, and fraud defense. PhD in network science and causal inference.
Tariq Mensah
Head of Partnerships
📍 Accra / Lagos
City producers, venues, and brands. Previously launched multi-city nightlife showcases across West Africa.
Nora Patel
Operations & Finance
📍 SF
Keeps the trains on time: vendor ops, compliance, and pilot budgets. Ex-startup ops lead.
Zara Okoye
Creative Director
📍 Berlin
Storytelling across visuals, motion, and merch. Led campaigns for emerging artists & community radio.
Roadmap Preview
milestones & gates
M0 • Foundations
Auth, ingest, fanout, payments skeleton
M1 • Creator MVP
TruthCast audio + tips, analytics v1
M2 • Demand MVP
GeoBoost pricing/checkout + reporting
M3 • Private Beta
5 pilot cities, case studies
M4 • Seed Ready
Repeatable loops & unit economics
We’re Hiring
founding roles & city producers
Founding Frontend Engineer
React/TS, WebAudio/WebRTC, performance.
Founding Backend Engineer
Go/Node, event bus, Redis/Kafka, infra.
Streaming Engineer (RTC)
SFU/SVC, ORTC, congestion control.
Design Engineer
Design systems, motion, accessibility.
City Producer (Chicago/Lagos/London)
Creator ops, programming, partnerships.
Contact
intros welcome
General
hello@truthradeo.xr
Partnerships
partners@truthradeo.xr
Investors
investor@truthradeo.xr
Press
press@truthradeo.xr