Participants
Introduction
Sam Gbafa and Hunter Horsfall, representing TinyCloud, spoke with Nicole Ripka, John Borthwick, and Jon Chin from Betaworks. The conversation focused on TinyCloud’s current status in fundraising, their plans for team expansion, and building the necessary infrastructure to support the growth of their technology.
Background and Technology Overview
- Sam Gbafa: An electrical engineer who has worked as a software engineer for eight years, including time spent at OpenAI. His interests lie in AI, cryptography, and verifiability. At SpruceID, he focused on self-sovereign identity and user data ownership.
- Hunter Horsfall: Recently exited from three small businesses in Fort Collins, Colorado, and began working with Sam on TinyCloud. His businesses included a coffee shop, a music bar and venue, and a hookah bar.
TinyCloud’s Current Project
- TinyCloud: A platform for users to control their data, allowing permissioned access and storage across a distributed network. Users can host their data on personal nodes and control access via signed messages.
- Use Case: AI pendants that capture and store personal data on TinyCloud, enabling applications to query and utilize this data.
Fundraising Efforts
TinyCloud is currently in the process of raising a $500,000 pre-seed funding round, with 20% already committed. They are seeking additional investments to support:
- Team Expansion: Building a development team leveraging the strong community in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Infrastructure Development: Enhancing their platform to handle data storage and compute functions securely and efficiently.
Future Plans
- Protocol and Application Development: Developing the TinyCloud protocol further for various applications, such as AI assistants, language learning tools, and personal data management.
- Obsidian Integration: Integrating TinyCloud with Obsidian to sync data and generate knowledge graphs from unstructured data, enhancing user experience.
Key Insights
- Data Ownership and Interoperability: Empowering users to control their data creates opportunities for innovative applications that leverage cross-platform data access and interoperability.
- AI and Knowledge Graphs: Using AI to convert unstructured data into structured knowledge graphs opens new avenues for personalized and context-aware applications.
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