AI financial modeling takes a major step forward as Galdera Labs launches a new platform for the finance functions of the future.
Galdera Labs launches today after securing more than SEK 16 million in pre-seed funding. The company has developed an AI-driven platform for financial modeling that replaces one-off spreadsheets and siloed models with an integrated infrastructure that ties financial data directly to business context.
Galdera was founded by the team behind Klarna’s internal finance systems. The funding round was led by J12 Ventures, with participation from Antler and angel investors with backgrounds at Klarna, DeepL, Stripe and Plata.
A growing problem for finance teams
This challenge is familiar to many finance teams. Every time assumptions change—when a new market opens, pricing is adjusted, or a new planning cycle begins—a new model must be built from scratch.
By the time those models are finished, much of the input data is often already outdated. That helps explain why AI adoption in finance has so far been limited: without a shared foundation that links financial data to the decisions behind the numbers, even advanced AI models have little meaningful context to reason over.
Galdera introduces “reasoning infrastructure”
Galdera addresses this with what the company calls “reasoning infrastructure.”
The platform is built on two integrated layers:
- a powerful calculation engine capable of handling large datasets
- a semantic memory that connects unstructured business context, strategic decisions and assumptions directly to the financial data
The result is a continuously updated model that accumulates institutional knowledge over time.
The system therefore understands not only what the numbers are, but why they change. That enables CFOs to ask plain-language questions and simulate complex scenarios directly in the model in minutes—work that previously could take weeks.
Founders’ experience from Klarna
“We have stayed up late with 50 spreadsheets at two in the morning using tools that claimed to solve the problem but didn’t. We realized financial modeling cannot rely on one-off models, whether they live in Excel or in a SaaS platform. ”
“Now the technology exists for models that accumulate knowledge as the business evolves. That’s the infrastructure we are building with Galdera,” says Evan Rumpza, co-founder and CEO.
The founders—Evan Rumpza (CEO), Mattia Scolari (CFO) and Giovanni Casula (CTO)—met at Klarna during the company’s most intense growth phase.
Managing financial planning across more than 26 markets, they saw firsthand how resource-intensive manual processes and fragmented Excel models struggled to keep up when conditions changed faster than the models could be rebuilt.
From an internal solution to a product
To address these challenges, the team built an internal system that replaced a static planning cycle with a continuously updated model.
That system enabled three people to accomplish work that previously required large analytics teams and supported Klarna through fundraising and preparations for listing.
That experience became the foundation for Galdera Labs, which now makes connected financial modeling infrastructure available to other finance teams facing the same complexity.
Investment from J12 Ventures and Antler
The pre-seed round of €1.5 million, roughly SEK 16 million, was led by J12 Ventures with participation from Antler.
Angel investors include executives and leaders from companies such as Klarna, DeepL, Stripe and Plata.
“The Galdera team has already developed a powerful modeling engine in one of Europe’s most demanding finance environments. Now they are advancing how AI—built on a strong foundation of data, memory and context—can change how companies plan, forecast and grow.”
Emmet King, partner at J12, adds: “They build with high ambition and craftsmanship, and we’re very happy to support them.”
“Evan, Mattia and Gio represent the type of founders we see as exceptionally strong in Stockholm’s tech ecosystem, with highly relevant experience from Klarna,” says Tobias Bengtsdahl, partner at Antler. “We’re excited to back a team with the right background to solve this problem for FP&A teams worldwide.”
Platform opens to customers
With the launch, Galdera is opening its platform to its first customers.
The target customers are fast-growing companies and organizations with complex operations where the speed of decision-making has outpaced the tools traditionally used by finance teams.
About Galdera
Galdera Labs is an AI company building financial infrastructure for strategic modeling aimed at CFOs in complex, fast-moving organizations.
By linking financial data with business context, the platform creates a model that understands why numbers change, not just what they are.
Galdera replaces static one-off models with a continuous, interconnected infrastructure that enables more accurate forecasts and faster, better-founded decisions.
The company was founded in Stockholm by an international team with deep operational experience from demanding finance environments such as Klarna, Bain, Deloitte and BlackRock.
Galdera’s ambition is to build the last financial model a company will ever need.
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