{"version":1,"id":"edgars-nemse","title":"Edgars Nemše","summary":"Edgars Nemše is a person who is a founder and product leader that builds and leads technology teams and blockchain-related projects.","content":"**Edgars Nemše** is a Latvian software engineer and technology entrepreneur who is the CEO of the GenLayer Foundation and a co-founder of GenLayer, a [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) project that integrates large language models into its consensus and validation process.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-vm9gk1nht1) \n\nHe was appointed CEO of the GenLayer Foundation on 21 September, 2026, leaving his role at GenLayer Labs, where he had served as co-founder and chief product officer, to join the Foundation full-time.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-vm9gk1nht1)​\n\n## Early Life and Education\n\nNemše is Latvian and speaks Latvian and English.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) \n\nHe studied at The University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, from 2012 to 2015, earning a Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) \n\nThe combined focus on artificial intelligence and software engineering foreshadowed his later work on a [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) built around language models. Across his career his profile records a total of 12 years and 5 months of professional experience as of September 2026. [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x)​\n\n## Career\n\nNemše's career began in software development roles at United Kingdom companies before moving into the [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) and distributed ledger sector, where he progressed from engineering positions into founding and executive roles.\n\n### Arum Global and Edurio\n\nHis first recorded role was as a software developer at Arum Global from February 2014 to December 2014, a period of ten months.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) \n\nArum Global is a business consulting and services firm founded in 1998 and headquartered in Nottingham, England, that works on debt collections and recoveries technology, strategy, and performance.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x)​\n\nOverlapping with and extending beyond that role, Nemše was a founding engineer at Edurio from June 2014 to December 2017, a tenure of three years and six months.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) \n\nEdurio is an education technology company founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, with a presence in Latvia, that provides schools and trusts with surveys of pupils, parents, and staff to measure and improve learning, wellbeing, and retention.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) \n\n### RDX Works\n\nNemše joined RDX Works Ltd, the company behind the Radix distributed ledger technology, as a full-stack developer in January 2018, a position he held for two years and two months until March 2020.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) \n\nHe then served as a product engineer from March 2020 to August 2020.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) RDX Works is a financial services company founded in 2016 and headquartered in London, with an office in Jersey and a workforce distributed across seven countries.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x)​\n\nDuring this period Nemše described the Radix project in his own words as a distributed ledger protocol in research and development since 2011, positioning it as designed for ease of use and to run on resource-restricted devices to support mass adoption and use in the Internet of Things, and to enable developers to build scalable distributed applications for public and private networks.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) His time at RDX Works marked his entry into the distributed ledger and [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) field that would define the rest of his career.\n\n### StakeHound\n\nFrom August 2020 to April 2023, a period of two years and eight months, Nemše was co-founder and CTO of StakeHound, a financial services company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) \n\nThe role was his first as both a company co-founder and a C-level executive, giving him responsibility for the technical direction of a staking-focused venture before he moved on to found GenLayer. [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) \n\n## GenLayer\n\nIn May 2023, Nemše co-founded [GenLayer Labs](https://iq.wiki/wiki/genlayer) and became its chief product officer, working in general management.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) GenLayer Labs is a technology and internet company founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York City, with a presence in Portugal and Spain and a workforce distributed across 13 countries including the United States, Spain, Portugal, Japan, and Argentina.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) \n\n​[GenLayer](https://iq.wiki/wiki/genlayer) describes itself as building an AI-integrated [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain), and Nemše has characterised its central design as one in which every [validator](https://iq.wiki/wiki/validator) is connected to a large language model, or LLM.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x)​\n\nNemše announced in August 2024 that GenLayer had raised $7.5 million to build its AI-integrated blockchain, accompanying the funding with a new website.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) \n\nOver the following months the project rolled out several components. In November 2024 it introduced the GenLayer Studio, previously known as the GenLayer Simulator, and the Intelligent [Oracle](https://iq.wiki/wiki/oracle), described as a means of supplying real-world data to [decentralized applications](https://iq.wiki/wiki/decentralized-application).[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x) \n\nGenLayer's work received coverage from the industry publication [CoinDesk](https://iq.wiki/wiki/coindesk) in April 2025.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-dix1zri93x)​\n\n### Appointment as Foundation CEO\n\nOn 21 September, the GenLayer Foundation appointed Nemše as its chief executive officer. The Foundation stated that Nemše, its co-founder and chief product officer, was leaving his role at GenLayer Labs to join the Foundation full-time.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-vm9gk1nht1) \n\n> I have accepted the role of CEO of the GenLayer Foundation.\n\n> As the CPO and co-founder of GenLayer Labs, it's been an honor and a pleasure to bring the network into reality, all the way from the whitepaper to the current testnets. [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-nO14LAEO6SikNSzU) \n\nNemše confirmed the move directly, stating that he had accepted the role of CEO of the GenLayer Foundation. The transition moved him from an operating company into the project's foundation, the governing entity behind the GenLayer ecosystem. 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