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
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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.
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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. -
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.
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Carlos EspejoVice 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.
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Cristian FelixVP of Visual Analytics
PhD, Data Visualization at NYU and 10+ years of experience in web development.
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Michael SapanskiChief Revenue Officer
10+ years of experience as a senior trader at hedge funds
Advisors
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Mitch WainerUnconfirmedMickaël Mallinger-DoganUnconfirmedJaved JussaUnconfirmed
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Igor RivinUnconfirmedJoe KunchariaUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Mickaël Mallinger-DoganUnconfirmed
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