NobodyWho
NobodyWho
Small Language Models: Europe’s Next AI Advantage
Investment vertical
- Climate techabout /verticals/climate-techClimate tech
Stage
- Pre-seed
Website
nobodywho.ooo about https://nobodywho.ooo/The challenge
Today’s large cloud-based language models are dominated by a handful of non-European tech giants. They require massive computational resources, constant internet connectivity, and the transfer of vast amounts of data to third-party servers. This creates high costs, locks users into specific providers, threatens data sovereignty, and comes with a large carbon footprint from training and inference.
The solution
NobodyWho allows Small Language Models (SLMs) that run directly on laptops and mobile devices, keeping data fully on-device. This local-first architecture preserves privacy, ensures data sovereignty, reduces energy consumption, and lowers CO₂ emissions by up to 100x for training and 500x for inference. Their open-source engine is easy to deploy and scale, enabling cost-efficient, climate-aligned, and human-centric AI accessible to both developers and organizations.
Footprint team
- Sofie Käll about ?overlay=sofie-kall
ska@thefootprintfirm.com about mailto:ska@thefootprintfirm.comSofie Käll
Chief Investment Officer
Will has international consulting experience from Bain & Company and The Footprint Firm. He has worked extensively with sustainability strategy, decarbonisation & target setting, and sustainability due diligence, ranging from SMEs to multinationals across a variety of industries. Will leads The Footprint Firm’s Biotechnology investment vertical and supports the go-to-market of portfolio companies within it.
Before joining The Footprint Firm, Will worked for 4.5 years at Bain & Company in Copenhagen, where he advised clients on a variety of strategic and operational challenges, primarily in Consumer Goods, Tech, Energy and Industry. At Bain, Will developed a passion helping large corporates navigate their decarbonisation journeys, which he sees as having a huge role to play in climate change mitigation. During this period, he also spent 6 months in Colombia helping to scale local start-ups.
Outside work, Will plays a lot of sport, mainly tennis, hockey and running, as well as being a keen musician. He holds a Master’s degree in Natural Sciences from UCL, where he majored in Physics and Physical Chemistry and during these studies, he also spent a year at McGill University in Canada.