Dec 1, 2016
The Most Promising Pioneers Of Finance Technology
Well done @betterment and @quantopian; in good company.
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The Most Promising Pioneers Of Finance Technology
Well done @betterment and @quantopian; in good company.
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Quantopian Raises Series A
Today Quantopian is announcing that they raised a $6.7MM Series A from Khosla and Spark. They also added former Thomson Reuters exec Jessica Stauth as VP of Quant Strategy. It's a big day for the company, and I'm pumped for everyone on the team there. Ben Ling will be joining the board from Khosla, and I'm delighted to have the opportunity to work with him.
It's amazing to think how far Fawce has come from when I first met him two years ago. Filling up the tank in this round is an important enabling step towards the end goal of democratizing access to systematic investing, but of course raising capital is not a goal in and of itself. What I really find impressive looking in retrospect is the community building Fawce and his team has executed. He has taken the most insular, paranoid, anti-sharing demographic of people head-on and cultivated a place where people are openly sharing ideas and best practices in systematic investing.
The company still has much open road in front of them to execute on their vision. But going from cold start to burgeoning community is a remarkable feat, and I hope everyone on the team there feels really proud of what they've accomplished to date.
More coverage of the financing and the mission at PandoDaily. And, to represent the community more visually, here's a photo from the most recent meetup, held last week at Spark NY.
“People on the management side are dismissive: "We spend a lot more money on this than you ever will.' This definitely fires me up, and I think it is total nonsense and hubris,” Mr. Fawcett said. Both men argue that the idea of keeping this knowledge secret is very dangerous. “Things like the flash crash, hacking and even regulators' playing catch-up with what is going on should prove that,” Mr. Fawcett said. “If you have faith in humanity like we do, this is a reason to be hopeful.”
Quantopian provides tools, storage and protection for user-created algorithms +1
Quantopian’s top-shared algorithms include one that uses Google search terms to predict market movements along with a tech stock momentum play that enters the market when prices are moving up quickly and exits when they drop quickly
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