Our story
Intelligence built in service of life.
The world’s most important infrastructure is human. It has never been owned by the people it belongs to, and it has never held the memory of the relationships that matter most.
The platforms we inherited were not built for trust.
They were built on a single logic. Collect the data. Lock it down. Monetize the access. In that model your network is a product, your relationships are inventory, and your trust is a surface to be exploited.
We do not accept that.
Three different journeys. The same conclusion.
Three of us arrived at the same diagnosis from three different directions. Hover on each of us to read how.
Paolo
Grew up moving. Home was never a place.
Paolo · Co-founder and CEO
We grew up moving: across borders, cultures, languages. Home was never a place. It was whoever stood beside you when everything else changed. The walls between people were never natural. They were built.
If the walls are structural, the fix has to be structural too.
Stefan
Spent 40 years building AI. For unity.
Stefan · Co-founder
Spent 40 years building AI: not for efficiency, not for automation, for unity. Eight of those years went into memory: the hardest problem in the field, and the least glamorous.
A system that forgets people cannot serve them.
Jonas
A career inside organizations.
Jonas · Co-founder and COS
Spent a career inside organizations: boardrooms, restructurings, the long work of change. The lesson repeated every time: strategy doesn’t move an organization. Relationships do.
Relationships are more valuable than the nodes themselves.
01 · What we refuse
Three things this company will never do.
No advertising model
There is no feed here, and no business model that would reward one.
No data sale
Not as a promise. As a structure: under steward-ownership, no one holds the power to sell it.
No messages sent as you
O never acts in your name, and never scores a human being.
Not promises. Structure.
Every opportunity is already one connection away.
Discover the ideas Sumbios is built on.
Nobody here joined for a job.
Everyone here arrived with the same mission, from a different door. This is the team.
Founders
Paolo Nardi
Co-founder and CEO
Technical founder working at the intersection of systems thinking, network intelligence, and AI. Former Digital Ethicist at IKEA, building ethical AI frameworks across global operations.
Founding team
Sorana Lehene
Founding CMO
Leading brand and marketing. Built a network 8,000 strong across the Nordic AI scene by making AI legible to the people deciding what to do with it. At Sumbios, that work is about helping people see their network whole.
Founders
Stefan Welcker
Co-founder
More than 30 years building enterprise AI platforms across EMEA, North America, and APAC. Rebuilt a $450M AI operation to 96 percent accuracy. Eight years on memory, the hardest part of what O does.
Founding team
Scott Jansen
HEAD OF MEMBER ACTIVATION
Human performance coach and entrepreneur. Founder of FastLife.Live and creator of Performance Architecture. He believes trusted relationships are the foundation of lasting impact.
Founders
Jonas Petter Barve
Co-founder and COS
More than 30 years in leadership and organizational transformation, including ventures across Europe and the United States, from Airbus America to Malmö University. MSc Leadership for Sustainability.
The right connections change what’s possible.
Founding partners get Sumbios O first, and help shape what it becomes.