A former Amazon Alexa scientist has raised $6.5 million for a startup vowing to bring foundational AI to the worldwide investment community.
Unusual Ventures led the spherical, with participation from Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, and Clocktower Ventures.UK-based Theia Insights is utilizing AI, machine studying, LLMs and Natural Language Processing to construct fashions primarily based on superior monetary arithmetic to “rebuild the infrastructural applied sciences that underpin the $100 trillion investment trade”.The firm is growing three core applied sciences: dynamic trade classification, thematic threat mannequin and portfolio evaluation.The brainchild of Ye Tian, who has a tutorial background in NLP and is a former analysis scientist at Amazon Alexa, Theia has constructed a workforce of consultants from Nasdaq, Morgan Stanley, Meta, UC Berkeley and the University of Cambridge’s Computer Science Department.Says Tian: “We stay within the age of information overflow – every part from geopolitics to monetary filings, to social media and information. It’s typically overwhelming and straightforward to get misplaced within the noise. “But good investment selections require readability, and that’s the place AI can play an unmatched function – by lifting us from the valley to the mountain prime, so we will select the paths we would like to take by seeing the place each path leads and the way they join.”
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/43804/theia-insights-raises-65-to-bring-ai-to-investment-community
