Sharpe

Agents for quantitative research and financial data science.

Y CombinatorSummer 2024ActiveB2BAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceFinanceAnalyticsBig Data

What they do

Problem

Quantitative traders and firms struggle to quickly turn trading ideas into profitable strategies due to data access and compute constraints.

Solution

An AI-driven platform that bundles petabytes of market data with high-performance infrastructure to accelerate quantitative research and strategy deployment.

Who it's for

Quant traders and institutional quantitative trading firms (e.g., hedge funds and prop shops).

Founders

Vivek Hazari

Co-founder

Vivek is a co-founder of Sharpe. Vivek spent 2 years at Palantir Technologies, where he worked across the commercial business, and later help found and lead a team to aid the development of AIP. He studied Computer Science and Philosophy at Dartmouth College, where he did research on applications of language models.

Daniel DiPietro

Founder

Dan is the co-founder of Sharpe. Previously, Dan worked at Jane Street, where he built capital allocation optimizations used in production to invest billions of dollars of assets, as well as an options tool used to execute >$100m of trades annually. He has published multiple first-author publications in high-impact venues like NeurIPS and CoRL. Dan moonlights as a botanist and published a best-selling botanical textbook on carnivorous plants while studying at Dartmouth College.

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John McCambridge

Founder

CTO of Sharpe & former high-frequency trading engineer - I like to fly (and jump from) small aircraft, build rockets with kitchen chemicals, visit vulnerable endpoints, and play poker - Born in New Zealand, raised in Scottish Highlands.