Galadriel
What is the mission?
Galadriel is building the world’s largest distributed LLM inference network – for devs to scale their LLM apps while cutting costs.
Who are the founders?
Johannes Tammekänd and Kaspar Peterson. Before Galadriel, Johannes made an exit with Payload-Security to CrowdStrike and founded two AI-based startups. His blockchain experience dates back to 2014 while researching the security model of Tor and Bitcoin in NATO. Kaspar has been a technical co-founder alongside Johannes for already three startups.
Why did Sten get involved?
I have been active in the crypto scene since 2013, decentralized finance from 2019 and NFTs since 2020. Out of these waves, the NFT market definitely caught the public imagination, and non-technical user imagination the most, and at an unprecedented speed. And the needs of “citizen owned data” have only deepened with the broad adoption of generative AI technologies. No-one (including me) knows how exactly the application space plays out between early art, community and other experiments – so betting on the “picks and shovels” infrastructure seems like the perfect way to get involved.
I am also personally motivated by the prospect of building Galadriel into one of the first Web3 powerhouses from Europe, and especially from Estonia.