About Us
Our history
Our experience in data science and AI dates back to 2017, when our founders developed a real-time news analytics application for Nasdaq to monitor credit news for thousands of companies, and to 2012, when they developed a proprietary risk management system for Nasdaq to control credit risks stemming from the financial crisis of 2008.
Our mission
Help asset managers deliver alpha for their clients, with a focus on corporate credit.
Our Team
Mario Jiménez Gárate
Our founder and CEO has 18 years of experience on Wall Street and 10 years of experience as a researcher. Mario worked 12 years at Nasdaq as the Head of Financial Risk Management and Technology. His expertise includes ideating and developing innovative AI tools, automated enterprise platforms, and real time risk analytics monitoring systems that solved real business problems, improved efficiency, and augmented the capabilities of Nasdaq's risk management team. Mario’s industry experience includes quantitative analysis and risk management of derivatives clearing, asset management, broker-dealers, trading platforms, banks, and insurance. Mario earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mauricio Lomelin
Co-founder. Mauricio brings over 3 decades of experience in designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining large systems to customers at a global scale. At Microsoft, he worked in the Windows CE team delivering an ecosystem supporting hardware and software partners, developers, and vendors; he also worked at MSN building online consumer services, and later in Bing designing and building a search engine with vertical domain differentiation features from the ground up to compete with Google and Yahoo in global markets with massive scale and traffic capacity. Later, he worked at American Express Travel Impressions developing an online platform to manage application service providers under a single business framework with a user experience designed for consumers. Mauricio earned his Bachelor and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Samuel Schmidt
Co-founder. With over 14 years of expertise in market and credit risk modeling, Sam's insights are pivotal to our innovative solutions. Samuel possesses a strong expertise in financial modeling, clearing, and infrastructure, and risk management as a quant in OTC clearing for energy derivatives. At Nasdaq, Sam developed capital and margin models for exchange-traded electricity derivatives as well as corporate credit scoring models. He was Head of Financial Model Validation, overseeing the Nasdaq-100 index calculations. Samuel earned advanced degrees in Mathematics and Financial Engineering from Northwestern University and from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, earning early induction into Phi Beta Kappa and receiving the Town Prize for Mathematics.