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Kimpton AI

AI-Native Investment Research

Y CombinatorSpring 2026ActiveFintechAsset ManagementArtificial IntelligenceFintechInvesting

What they do

Problem

Buy-side portfolio managers waste significant time on manual, non-investing research workflows like filings review, earnings prep, peer benchmarking, and thesis validation.

Solution

An AI-native investment research platform that autonomously performs buy-side research tasks and produces structured, mandate-aware trade proposals with cited rationale and analytics.

Who it's for

Buy-side investment teams such as hedge funds and asset managers (portfolio managers and analysts).

Founders

Jack Zumwalt
Founder

Co-founder, CEO @ Kimpton AI (YC P26). Building the IDE for investors. Jack ran systematic strategies and managed daily operations of Level III Capital, a quantitative systematic trading firm he co-founded after raising $10M to seed the fund at the age of 22. Prior to that, he was a detection engineer at Goldman Sachs, writing algorithms to detect malicious threat actors who were trying to cyber attack the investment bank.

Adrian Del Bosque
Founder

Co-founder, Founding Engineer @ Kimpton AI (YC P26). Building the IDE for investors. Adrian was a founding engineer at Level III Capital, a quantitative systematic trading firm, where he built the trading infrastructure. Prior to that, he was a Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer at Vistra, managing the cloud infrastructure behind the monitoring application for its 44,000 megawatt power generation fleet. He began his career at SpaceX as part of the Automation & Controls team.

Mauricio Ortiz
Founder

Co-founder, CEO @ Kimpton AI (YC P26). Building the IDE for investors. Mauricio oversaw the entire technical implementation of the investment process, from research to trade execution, at Level III Capital, a quantitative systematic trading firm he co-founded after raising $10M to seed the fund at the age of 21. Prior to that, he was part of the critical infrastructure team at Goldman Sachs which handled systems for its consumer bank and the Apple Card.

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