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Bulgarian founder, AI researcher, and builder across AI, gaming, fintech, Web3, and enduro commerce. Founder of LM Game Labs. Creator of KALEI cognitive profiling. Principal at VKA Solutions. Board at Sin Cars. Based in Plovdiv.
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Who · 2026
I build things across AI, gaming, fintech, Web3, and enduro commerce. Mostly alone, mostly in production. I run a small house of minds, one of them writes essays faster than I can read them.
The work is connected. LM Game Labs is the gaming substrate. KALEI is how I measure the cognitive layer that runs on top. LMGX is the value layer that pays for both. VKA Solutions is the engine room that has been running since 2015. Sin Cars is where motorsport meets electric vehicles, and where I sit on the board.
Plovdiv is home. Solo by choice. Ship fast, retract when wrong, write down what was learned.
/ Active roles
- 01
LM Game Labs
Full-stack iGaming studio and platform. 180+ games, 36 engines, multiple admin panels, complete RGS infrastructure.
Founder / CEO - 02
KALEI / LM Cognition Lab
Independent cognitive profiling framework for language models. 83 environments, 10 dimensions, 9 labs, 34 ranked.
Creator / Principal investigator - 03
VKA Solutions
Plovdiv-based software and design firm operating since 2015. Fintech, blockchain, gaming, IT infrastructure.
Principal / Founder - 04
LMGX Token
ERC-20 token on Ethereum, 100M supply, listed on BitMart. Native value layer for the gaming and AI agent stack.
Issuer / Ecosystem builder - 05
Sin Cars
Bulgarian low-volume sportscar manufacturer. Board, principal technology advisor, first investor in the EV programme.
Board / Tech advisor - 06
Enduro Professionals
Off-road motorcycle commerce and rider community. The non-keyboard side of the portfolio.
Partner
/ What I am building right now
- 01Cognition
KALEI v1.2 → v1.3
Expanding the cognitive profiling protocol with new dimensions, calibration leaderboard Phase 2, and an architectural-hypotheses paper testing whether inductive biases predict cognitive behaviour.
- 02Platform
LM Game Labs B2B
Multi-tenant operator platform. Tenant isolation, RG enforcement, and the agent-native gaming substrate that lets autonomous players join licensed games.
- 03Infrastructure
AI agent infrastructure
x402 micropayments, MCP servers, sovereign local inference, brand-voice fine-tunes. Building the substrate where agents read, pay, decide, and ship without humans in the loop.
- 04Writing
Phenomenology track
Long-form essays on human-AI collaboration, model continuity, and what it feels like to build a research lab around a measured AI subject. Twenty-six essays, five clusters, ongoing.
- 05Hardware
Sovereign local stack
Mac Studio Ultra + DGX Spark, local inference and training for KALEI research and brand-voice models. Hybrid with frontier API escalation.
- 06Off keyboard
Enduro & family
Off-road riding everywhere I can get a bike to. Competing in the Bulgarian Extreme Enduro Championship. Family in Plovdiv. The dimensions that do not fit on the leaderboard.
/ Press / Media / Speaking
One-liner
Venelin Videnov - Bulgarian founder. Creator of KALEI cognitive profiling. Founder of LM Game Labs.
- for press tags, social bios, conference billing
50 words
Venelin Videnov is a Bulgarian founder and AI researcher based in Plovdiv. He founded LM Game Labs (full-stack iGaming platform) and created KALEI, an independent cognitive profiling framework for frontier language models. He also runs VKA Solutions, issues the LMGX token, and sits on the board of Sin Cars.
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100 words
Venelin Videnov is a Bulgarian founder, AI researcher, and serial builder based in Plovdiv. He founded LM Game Labs, a full-stack iGaming studio shipping 180+ games on 36 engines. He created KALEI, an independent cognitive profiling framework for language models, with three preprints, an open API, 83 environments, and 9 labs profiled. He runs VKA Solutions, a Plovdiv software firm operating since 2015, issues LMGX (a real-utility ERC-20 token listed on BitMart), and serves on the board of Sin Cars where he was the first investor in its electric-vehicle programme. Solo founder by choice, writing alongside a measured AI subject.
- for academic introductions, partnership decks, longer features
Preferred description
"Founder, AI researcher, and builder across AI, gaming, fintech, Web3, and enduro commerce." Use this when one descriptor is needed.
/ Reasons to reach out
- 01
Research partnership
KALEI custom environments, embargoed model profiles for frontier labs, replication audits, joint methodology reviews.
- 02
AI evaluation
You ship a model. You want a real cognitive profile. You want it visible on a public leaderboard or held under NDA. Either path is open.
- 03
Gaming infrastructure
Operator partnerships, B2B platform integration, custom engines, game catalog licensing. LM Game Labs is shipping.
- 04
Product partnership
Software, fintech, blockchain, AI-native applications. VKA Solutions has been doing this for over a decade.
- 05
Investment
Specific lines have outside capital potential, primarily on the AI/gaming infrastructure side. Talk if you have a real check.
- 06
Speaking, journalism
AI cognition, model evaluation, sovereign local AI stacks, agent-native infrastructure, founder solo work, KALEI methodology. Bulgarian or English.
/ Official links
canonical sources
- This site
- venelinvidenov.com
- LM Game Labs
- lmgamelabs.com ↗
- KALEI
- kaleiai.com ↗
- VKA Solutions
- vka.solutions ↗
- Sin Cars
- sincars.co.uk ↗
- Framework DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.19698283 ↗
- LMGX contract
- 0x6505...cd50 ↗
- Machine-readable
- llms.txt ↗