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Applied Sciences
University of Cambridge
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Siiri Ruuhela is an entrepreneur, systems designer and economic architect whose work focuses on how financial and computational infrastructures determine who is able to participate in building the future. She develops market structures that expand access to the foundational resources required for technological progress - capital, compute and the capacity to experiment.
Her work spans institutional finance, digital asset markets and distributed compute networks. She began her career designing trade finance systems adopted by major banks including HSBC and Barclays, later gaining experience in institutional trading environments at Citadel and Bitpanda. At Kaio, (Nomura × Brevan Howard joint venture), she contributed to the architecture of one of the first institutional on-chain repo frameworks, re-engineering core funding markets into transparent, programmable settlement rails.
Siiri’s current work within FTL and as the Co-Founder of General Compute Co. centres on building the grid, a shared compute network treating GPU capacity as a circulating research resource rather than a gated commodity. The grid enables universities, research labs and emerging companies to route, pool and borrow against compute, shifting who has the ability to model, test and innovate. Her aim is to ensure that the next era of scientific and AI development is shaped by capability, not privilege.
She is a Technology Theme Lead at ClimaTRACES Lab and Senior Associate at King’s Entrepreneurship Lab at the University of Cambridge, where she created and leads programmes that cultivate a culture of experimentation, technical fluency and founder independence. She is a finance graduate from the University of Cambridge, with prior study in economics and cybersecurity.
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Contact:
King's College Entrepreneurship Lab | climaTRACES | Linkedin | [email protected]
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Talks: Democratising Alternative Asset Distribution Models - Avalanche Summit London 2025
We have scaled compute but not for Autonomous Agents - UC Berkeley 2025
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