Little-Known Data Wizards Take On the Pros at New AI Hedge Fund
- Kvasir Technologies founders turn engineering skills to stocks
- Computer scientists and data experts take on the finance pros
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The first question Mike Merritt-Holmes gets asked when pitching his AI strategy is about his resume: which hedge fund did he work for? But Kvasir Technologies Ltd. doesn’t come from an established corner of finance. And neither does the man touting it.
Merritt-Holmes founded the machine-learning fund with two fellow computer scientists who made their mark in the world of big data at analytics firm Teradata Corp. The trio subsequently harnessed their engineering acumen to power machine-learning stock investing in developed markets, financed by their personal savings.