targetsight
Probabilistic Sentiment Event Arbitrage Software for Hedgefunds
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Software
- Location New York City, NY, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded September 2011
- Employees 7
- Website targetsight.com
Company Summary
TargetSight is a group of Masters in Computer Science and Computational Finance that have engineered probabilistic models for mergers/acquisition events based on sentiment analysis, gauging the probability that the event will/not occur so that Hedgefunds are able to short or boost their position. We provide risk management in strategic event arbitrage to minimize losses and increase profit.
Team
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Phillip D WalkerCEO/PM
Phillip raised angel capital in Silicon Valley and sold his first company in college. He has worked for noticeable start-ups in NYC.
He holds a BS in Economics and Computer Science from Fordham University as a Presidential Scholar.
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Samit PatelCTO
Samit was the lead developer at India's National Post Office and has developed intricate financial systems in the financial space previously to founding TargetSight.
He hold a MS in Computer Science from New York University
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Xueyan ZhengVP of Engineering
Xueyan Zheng began his software development career at China's largest search company Baidu Inc and then moved on to become a lead developer at Peek Inc.
Xueyan holds a MS in Computer Science from Columbia University
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Alex LeBalncSenior Interface Developer
Alex began his career at Blue Luna where he developed innovative GUI's for large clients such as Harvard University and Financial Institutions.
Alex holds a BS in Computer Science and Visual Communications.
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Shukur MananSenior Quant
Shukur was a lead developer at Goldman Sachs where he developed a number of computational models that were employed in statistical and probabilistic systems.
He holds a MS from Carnegie Mellon in Computational Finance
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Lixing DongSoftware Engineer
Lixing is a software engineer at TargetSight and aids in the development of sentiment and probabilistic models.
Lixing holds an MS from Columbia University
Previous Investors
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Fordham VenturesUnconfirmedVarious Angel InvestorsUnconfirmed
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