Who owns Godel Terminal?

Godel Terminal is built and owned by DL Software Inc., a Delaware C-corporation registered in Dover, Delaware. Martin Shkreli is a co-founder — confirmed in the company's own funding announcements — and the company is private, with $7M raised from named investors including Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan. No other founder is publicly named.

The company: DL Software Inc.

DL Software Inc., a Delaware C-corporation (registered at 8 The Green, Dover, Delaware). That is the entity on the vendor's terms, and the entity your subscription contract is with. Godel Terminal is not the company's only product: the pre-seed release lists Neets (a text-to-speech API), Dr. Gupta (an AI physician) and Shoggoth (image generation) in the same portfolio — Godel Terminal is the one that attracted the funding and the press.

The company hires in the open. Hiring frontend and backend engineers, full-time onsite in New York, listed at $140–250k plus equity. Stack per the postings: TypeScript, React, WebSockets, Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS. (Sources: the company's Hacker News "Who is hiring" posts and its careers page.) An onsite New York engineering team at those salaries is one of the more concrete ownership facts available: someone is paying that payroll.

The people — and the limits of what is published

Exactly one name is vendor-confirmed: Martin Shkreli, co-founder, named in both of the company's own funding announcements. "Co-founder" implies at least one other founder — and here the record goes quiet: No other founder is clearly named in any vendor or press source we found. Shkreli is consistently described as "co-founder", implying at least one other — unnamed publicly.

Third-party sites report Ralph Holzmann as CTO. No vendor page we can access confirms that, so we render it as what it is: a reported claim, not a fact. Likewise, no source assigns anyone the CEO title. When a company publishes this little about its own leadership, the honest move is to say so rather than fill the gap.

The co-founder's record, stated plainly

Shkreli's public record is part of any ownership answer, so here it is, cited and scoped. He was convicted of securities fraud in 2017, sentenced to seven years in 2018, and released in 2022. The SEC's subsequent civil action produced a permanent officer-and-director bar in February 2022 (litigation release) — a bar that, by its terms, concerns officers and directors of public companies; DL Software Inc. is a private company. Separately, the Second Circuit upheld the FTC's lifetime ban on his participation in the pharmaceutical industry in January 2024 (CNBC report) — a ban whose stated scope is the pharmaceutical industry; DL Software Inc. builds financial software. We report the facts and their scopes as the sources give them and draw no legal conclusion in either direction. How that record weighs on a buying decision is covered on is Godel Terminal legit →

One consequence of the founder's fame: referral sites trade on the name. SHKRELI is a real promo code — run by a third-party site, not the company — and it gives the same standard offer as every other referral code. The SHKRELI code, explained →

The funding, with sources

For color rather than facts: a February 2026 episode of the Summation podcast (Auren Hoffman) (Martin Shkreli on prison, beating Bloomberg, and being hated) describes Shkreli as co-founder of DL Software Inc., parent of Godel Terminal — consistent with the funding releases.

From the January 2023 vision to what shipped

Shkreli published the founding vision for Godel on his Substack in January 2023 (the post): a "refactored AWS-style version of what Bloomberg is today," promising usage-based pricing and a free tier. What shipped is different on both counts: the product uses flat per-seat pricing — $996 per seat / year, vendor-stated — and no free tier exists on the current pricing page. Plans change between manifesto and product; we note the difference because the original post still circulates. The pricing that actually shipped →

Traction, as far as it is published

The seed announcement claims users with individual assets totaling more than $1 billion have adopted the platform, alongside major institutions. That is a vendor-stated claim, and it is also the only traction figure that exists: no subscriber counts and no revenue figures are published anywhere we can find. The vendor's marketing names hedge funds, family offices, RIAs, banks and Fortune 500 companies as customer types, and publishes one named case study — weighed against the rest of the evidence on the legitimacy page. Whether any of it earns a $996 seat is a separate, shorter question: is Godel Terminal worth it →

Frequently asked questions

Is Martin Shkreli the CEO of Godel Terminal?

Not stated anywhere we can cite. The company's own funding announcements name him only as co-founder, and no vendor or press source we found assigns him — or anyone — the CEO title. Co-founder is the only confirmed role, so it is the only one we report.

Who funds Godel Terminal?

$7M across two announced rounds: a $2M pre-seed (July 2024) led by dao5, Naval Ravikant and Evolve Ventures, and a $5M seed (January 2026) led by Infinitum with Flex Capital, dao5 and individual Godel users participating. Both announcements are linked in the table above.

Is Godel Terminal publicly traded?

No. DL Software Inc. is a private Delaware C-corporation. You cannot buy its shares on any exchange, and no source we found suggests a listing is planned.

Who is the CTO of Godel Terminal?

Third-party sites report Ralph Holzmann as CTO, but no vendor page we can access confirms it, so we carry it as reported rather than fact. The only vendor-confirmed name at the company is Martin Shkreli, co-founder.