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KelAI

Founded by former WorldQuant portfolio manager & head of event driven systematic strategies Jeremie Cohen, KelAI is building the autonomous alpha engine for hedge funds, traders and institutional investors. Investment teams now have more data, tools and compute than ever, but research still runs across siloed systems and inefficient workflows. KelAI turns that fragmented process into a compounding AI-native engine that continuously finds, tests and validates trading signals at a pace no human te

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2026-07-15
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Founded by former WorldQuant portfolio manager & head of event driven systematic strategies Jeremie Cohen, KelAI is building the autonomous alpha engine for hedge funds, traders and institutional investors. Investment teams now have more data, tools and compute than ever, but research still runs across siloed systems and inefficient workflows. KelAI turns that fragmented process into a compounding AI-native engine that continuously finds, tests and validates trading signals at a pace no human te

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KelAI is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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hedge fundsinstitutional investorsAI-native engineautonomous alpha enginetoolsautonomous alpha enginecomputeInvestment teams
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Companies similar to KelAI

AI infrastructure · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Kimpton AI

match 77

In investment management, the final outcome isn't a deck or a memo. It's the trade. Kimpton is the AI-native research platform for portfolio managers. We're commoditizing the research layer and handing PMs data distilled into structured trades. The whole industry is fighting underperformance. Active managers trail their benchmarks, and capital keeps bleeding into passive. AI was supposed to fix that, but it hasn't. Funds either stitch together a dozen point tools or babysit general agents all da

shared extracted concept terms: native, investment; shared product terms: portfolio, manager, fund, investment; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Astor

match 67

Astor is an AI investment advisor for retail investors. Founded by Bruno Koba (Nubank, monashees) and Daniel Tulha (Stripe, Robinhood), Astor gives every active investor an AI investment advisor working around the clock to surface their next great investment. We’re backed by YC (S25). Retail investors now account for 25% of all U.S. trading volume, nearly double from 2012. But over 56% still say they don’t feel confident in their investment decisions. Astor fixes that. Our AI agents uncover oppo

shared extracted concept terms: investor; shared product terms: investment, investor, found, now; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Event Horizon Labs

match 51

We are scaling autonomous research, Markets are our verification loop: agents turn hypotheses into strategies, test them, and compound what survives.

shared extracted concept terms: autonomou; shared product terms: autonomou, research, strategie, test; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

AlphaLoops

match 47

The first AI-native sales team for investment managers.

shared extracted concept terms: investment, native; shared product terms: native, investment, manager; same category: AI infrastructure

AYC Fund

match 28

AI-native crypto hedge fund

shared product terms: native, hedge, fund; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Ekpa

match 25

Building Autonomous Research Agents for Trading

shared product terms: autonomou, research, trad; shared affiliation: Y Combinator