Accern

Get real-time stories on your stocks curated from 20 million websites.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Financial Services
  • Location New York, NY, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2014
  • Employees 6
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website accern.com

Company Summary

Accern is a real-time AI platform that notifies individual investors of important stock-related stories curated from 20 million news, blog, and social media websites.

Our solution has helped save individual investors 10 times the cost, time, and effort that they were putting into their existing solutions. Furthermore, our technology has been validated and is being used by the best-performing hedge funds influencing over $15 billion in assets.

Team

  • Kumesh Aroomoogan
    Co-Founder and CEO

    Kumesh is a 2x marketing and strategy entrepreneur and holds a BBA in Public Accounting from Pace University. Kumesh also comes from a wall street background, having worked at Citigroup (Public Finance), SIFMA, and Ford Foundation. He is currently an active contributor to Forbes covering Big Data Analytics and Quantitative Finance.

  • Anshul Pandey
    Co-Founder and Data Scientist

    Anshul is a 2x artifical intelligence and data
    entrepreneur and also PhD candidate at NYU studying Big Data Analysis and Predictive Modeling for Finance. He had previously worked at Deloitte, SalesForce, and various research facilities before Accern.

  • Ahmed Shabbir
    Vice President of Engineering

    Ahmed comes with 15+ years of experience in back-end development and APIs. He was previously a senior engineer at ProExam and NetSol Technologies. He also have an MS in Computer Science from NYU.

  • Carlos Espejo
    Vice President of Infrastructure

    Carlos comes with 15+ years of experience in web application developments and cloud infrastructure. He was previously a senior engineer at ProExam and Verified Person.

  • Cristian Felix
    VP of Visual Analytics

    PhD, Data Visualization at NYU and 10+ years of experience in web development.

  • Michael Sapanski
    Chief Revenue Officer

    10+ years of experience as a senior trader at hedge funds

Advisors

  • Mitch Wainer
    Unconfirmed
    Mickaël Mallinger-Dogan
    Unconfirmed
    Javed Jussa
    Unconfirmed
  • Igor Rivin
    Unconfirmed
    Joe Kuncharia
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Mickaël Mallinger-Dogan
    Unconfirmed

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