Minetta Brook Inc.

We enable fast contextual discovery from streaming text. Our 1st product targets > 1.5M professional traders. Bloomberg is our channel partner to 300K users.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Software
  • Location Kirkland, WA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2011
  • Employees 10
  • Website minettabrook.com

Company Summary

Our patent-pending technology helps users with fast auto-discovery of contextually relevant information. KNEWSAPP, our 1st product provides >1.5M financial traders, analysts & portfolio managers with game changing ability to discover early, connected & hidden news from >3M daily articles. Core IP is our broadly applicable NLP inference engine. KNEWSAPP is distributed through Bloomberg's invite-only app portal to 300,000 Bloomberg terminal users.

Team

  • D. (DB) Bharadwaj
    CEO

    :
    Topline
    * Built >$100M businesses at startup & enterprise companies

    Specialty
    * Building & running thriving teams that deliver non-linear results

    Record
    * Transformation & turnaround consulting @Aelego
    * 1st content-driven KM system @Microsoft
    * Enterprise app+data integration @Microsoft
    * 1st HA parallel database cluster platform @Sun
    * 0-$X00M in 2 year startup @Axil
    * 1st SMP Server OS @Sun

    Companies
    * Microsoft.Aelego.Sun

  • Prabhu Venkatesh
    Chief Scientist

    :
    Topline
    * Architected string of high impact software wins on Wall Street

    Specialty
    * Semantic & Linguistic Technologies, Trading & Risk Systems, Middle Office, Compliance.
    Distributed Computing, S/W & System Architecture, Operating Systems, H/W Design

    Record
    * 1st distributed trading system @Salomon
    * Key creator of broadband data feed @Bloomberg
    * Super-scale compliance & regulatory database @BofA

    Companies
    * Bloomberg.Sal

  • Viplav Nigam
    Vice President of Enginering

    :
    Topline
    * Led successful Wall St. tech teams

    Specialty
    * NLP, Quantitative News Analytics, Machine Learning Algorithms, Big Data, Capital Market
    Technologies, Low latency Trading Infrastructure, and Large Scale Web Deployments

    Record
    * Built / managed the NASDAQ trading system and nasdaq.com
    * Built / operated ultra-low latency economic news delivery platform & NLP news/sentiment
    analysis system for RTT
    * Operations at Bo

  • D. (DB) Bharadwaj

Advisors

  • Trent Dykes, DLA Piper LLP
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Founders
    Unconfirmed
    Keiretsu Forum, TiE Angel Group, Angel Investors
    Unconfirmed
    Naya Ventures
    Unconfirmed

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