FinovateEurope 2013 / QuantConnect
Presenter Profile:
How they describe themselves: QuantConnect gives engineers free access to a stock market backtester with high-resolution data for designing trading algorithms. Engineers can design strategies and have them distributed to working capital.
How they describe their product/innovation: We are demonstrating our cloud-powered backtester, capable of simulating years of stock data in minutes. Users can design strategies in a C# IDE, compile them online and run them across 14 years of tick data (up to 8 TB data).
Contacts:
Bus. Dev.: Jared Broad, Co-Founder, jared@quantconnect.com
Press & Sales: Shai Rosen, Co-Founder, shai@quantconnect.com
Website: quantconnect.com
Blog: quantconnect.com/blog
Twitter: @quantconnect
HQ:
New York, NY, USA & Santiago, Chile
Founded: August 2011
Product Demoed: QuantConnect Simulator
Product Launch: February 2013
Metrics: Raised $160,000, 3 employees, 500+ beta-testing engineers (users)
- Key Executives
Jared Broad (Co-Founder), Shai Rosen (Co-Founder)
Key Stats
- Key Investors
Start Up Chile (startupchile.org), Fundacion Chile (www.fundacionchile.com)
- Key Partnerships
eToro.com – Sharing social data for algorithm development and execution, planned for June 2013.
- Key Customers
Autoinvest.com (formerly Roboinvest) – Distribution of algorithm signals for investors.