A former Amazon Alexa scientist has raised $6.5 million for a startup that promises to bring fundamental AI to the global investment community.
Unusual Ventures led the round, with participation from Fidelity International Strategic Ventures and Clocktower Ventures.
UK-based Theia Insights uses AI, machine learning, LLMs and natural language processing to build models based on advanced financial mathematics to “rebuild the infrastructure technologies that underpin the $100 trillion investment industry.”
The company develops three core technologies: dynamic industry classification, thematic risk modeling and portfolio analysis.
The brainchild of Ye Tian, who has an academic background in NLP and is a former research scientist at Amazon Alexa, Theia has assembled a team of experts from Nasdaq, Morgan Stanley, Meta, UC Berkeley and the University of Cambridge’s computer science department.
Tian says: “We live in an age of data overload – from geopolitics to financial records to social media and news. It’s often overwhelming and it’s easy to get lost in the noise.
“But good investment decisions require clarity, and this is where AI can play an unmatched role – taking us from the valley to the mountaintop, so we can choose the paths we want to take by seeing where each path leads and how they relate to each other are connected.” .”