KelAI
KelAI is a YC Spring 2026 (P26) company. Based in New York City, NY, USA. Team of 3.
About KelAI
Summary
KelAI builds an autonomous alpha research engine for hedge funds, proprietary traders, and institutional investors. It continuously discovers, tests, and validates trading signals across fragmented data sources, replacing the manual, siloed research workflows that human quant teams run today. The platform is designed to compound signal discovery at a pace and scale that a traditional research team cannot match.
Go-to-market
KelAI sells to hedge funds and institutional trading desks, the buyers being investment and quantitative research teams that currently manage signal research in-house.
From the Y Combinator listing
The AI Quant: Autonomous Alpha Engine for Funds and Traders.
Founded by former WorldQuant portfolio manager & head of event driven systematic strategies 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.
Facts
- Fintech / Fintech -> Asset Management
- New York City, NY, USA
- 3
- Active
- Early
Founders (1)
- Jeremie Cohen
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