KelAI

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The AI Quant: Autonomous Alpha Engine for Funds and Traders.

Spring 2026Founded 20253 peopleNew York, NY, USA

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AI Investment Research PlatformSaaSHedge funds and institutional investorsMedium competition

Moat

Autonomous research loop and backtesting framework become self-improving with deal flow and market data.

Key risk

High regulatory scrutiny on automated trading; performance variability and alpha decay risk; concentrated buyer base.

Why now

Quant hedge funds seek automation of labor-intensive research to scale with AI; performance pressure post-2023 correction.

Competitors

Kensho, AlphaSense, FactSet

About

Founded by former WorldQuant portfolio manager 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 team can match.

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KelAI positions itself as an autonomous investment intelligence platform described as an AI Quant for funds and traders. It emphasizes end-to-end capability from research to trade, focusing on applied AI in quantitative finance.

An autonomous AI-powered quant engine designed for investment workflows, spanning AI research, quant development, and potentially trading execution. The platform aims to provide investment intelligence from research to trade, implying capabilities in data-driven research, model development, and execution or integration with trading processes.

Who it’s for: Funds and traders (quant funds, hedge funds, invest-trade teams).

Features

Autonomous investment intelligence
End-to-end research to trade workflow
Applied AI for quantitative finance
Quant development and deployment
Infrastructure for AI-powered trading

Founders · 1

Jeremie CohenFounder

Founder and CEO of KelAI. 6 years of experience as a quant portfolio manager. Managed a global equity book at WorldQuant and lead an ML team at Millennium Management.

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Launch · 1 launch

KelAI - Autonomous AI research engine for hedge funds · May 2026
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An agentic AI platform that turns hedge fund research into a compounding system.
KelAI is an AI research platform for hedge funds that autonomously runs the full investment research process—from idea generation through backtesting and monitoring—while maintaining a knowledge base of prior research to improve future cycles.
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