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Mattermark collects and organizes comprehensive information on the world’s fastest growing companies. In minutes, get actionable data that lets you pinpoint the companies and people you need to know or do business with. 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Sliced automates all of the previously manual processes associated with making an alternative investment, facilitating electronic signing of subscription documents and streamlined reporting. 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SparkGift supports small dollar gifts and fractional shares, so you can give someone a $20 investment in Apple or a Vanguard index fund.\r\n\r\nSparkGift is creating products that make investing simple, enjoyable and accessible to the masses. 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OpenInvest’s proprietary technology seamlessly creates low-cost investment portfolios tailored to your values, while tracking market indices. 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Too often it’s because they are employed by a company that doesn’t offer a retirement plan. Human Interest is changing that by making it affordable and accessible for small and medium-sized businesses to offer employees a path to financial independence through retirement savings.\r\n\r\nWe’re a high-growth tech company changing the retirement industry. We’ve raised $500M and are backed by leading investors. Most recently, by funding from BlackRock as well as many other top investors: TPG (The Rise Fund) with SoftBank led our Series D, Glynn Capital, NewView Capital, USVP, Wing, Uncork, and others.", "one_liner": "The 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses.", "team_size": 765, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Human Resources", "launched_at": 1433977518, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Human Resources", "HR Tech", "Investing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2015", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Human Resources" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/human-interest", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2015/human-interest.json" }, { "id": 1453, "name": "Pit.AI", "slug": "pit-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ee5971f7543c1b8d1d76bb765b8acaa206cb1a0b.png", "website": "https://www.pit.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Pit.AI Technologies aims at solving intelligence for investment management. We combine bleeding-edge AI research with powerful computing to automatically mine profitable trading strategies in financial markets. \r\n\r\nOur proprietary pipeline departs from the standard portfolio optimization paradigm in that it avoids making unrealistic assumptions on how markets behave, and it applies the expressiveness of our AI techniques on large scale data to automatically detect and exploit new sources of market inefficiencies, rather than testing or verifying human-generated trading ideas, intuitions, or forecasting models.\r\n\r\nWe believe that the investment management industry is at the dawn of a new AI-led era where trading idea generation will be automated and cost-effective, management fees will be a thing of the past, and fund managers will no longer be paid for merely showing up.", "one_liner": "Solving intelligence for investment management.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Asset Management", "launched_at": 1478140832, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "Investing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2017", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Asset Management" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pit-ai", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2017/pit-ai.json" }, { "id": 1454, "name": "Arthena", "slug": "arthena", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9d4656eb8a75c7b4647f36ee77604160755543cd.png", "website": "https://www.arthena.com", "all_locations": "New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "Arthena is a financial product that gives you access to the alternative asset class with the highest barrier to entry and strongest historical returns. We invest in the most liquid segment of the art market, with the lowest volatility, yielding tremendous growth uncorrelated to traditional investments. Arthena’s automated and data driven investment strategy regulates art investment by building traditional fund structures. HNWI’s can now securely and confidently diversify their portfolios into alternative assets focusing on the luxury market.\r\n\r\nArthena has designed and built a statistically rigorous model that estimates the value of artwork over time. Since the data we obtain derives from auction records and repeat sales, our model relies on a set of features about each result. These features include include the artist’s name, medium, date of creation, origin of location and size of work. After identifying groups of work that are similar to each other, we calculate the expected ROI and estimated volatility based on the distribution of gains. Using historical auction results to simulate the performance of our funds, we leverage Monte Carlo analysis to determine annualized returns and sharpe ratios. Based on this analysis, Arthena can validate the financial viability of our product and establish statistically rigorous bounds for these estimates.", "one_liner": "Quantitative Investment in Art Assets ", "team_size": 12, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Asset Management", "launched_at": 1478140833, "tags": [ "Investing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2017", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Asset Management" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/arthena", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2017/arthena.json" }, { "id": 1464, "name": "Ledger Investing", "slug": "ledger-investing", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3326697b08953d5914d07d4d39f5bca122a18fa8.png", "website": "https://ledgerinvesting.com/", "all_locations": "United States; Remote", "long_description": "Ledger Investing provides an exciting opportunity for asset managers, pension funds, hedge funds, family offices and other institutions interested in earning a great return through insurance investing.\r\n\r\nThe company deploys proprietary software and data analytics covering many types of insurance risk portfolios. The technology enables insurers to securitize risk more efficiently while providing investors, asset managers, pension funds, hedge funds, family offices, and other institutions an opportunity to invest in a new and growing asset class.\r\n\r\nLedger Investing was founded by Julien Brissonneau, Aymeric Rabot and Samir Shah in 2016.", "one_liner": "Marketplace for insurance securitization.", "team_size": 85, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Insurance", "launched_at": 1478194834, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Insurance", "Investing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2017", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Insurance" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ledger-investing", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2017/ledger-investing.json" }, { "id": 1652, "name": "Piggy", "slug": "piggy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5184ec7534362c1a66e059ec557d55ea721821ff.png", "website": "https://piggy.co.in", "all_locations": "MH, India", "long_description": "Experience an easy way to make Investments in Mutual funds in India.\r\n\r\nEasiest platform to make mutual fund investments in India.\r\nBecause you need to make Investments, be it just to park your cash short term to earn better returns, or to invest for your goals or retirement, we've made an easy to use platform for you where you can invest in any fund in India in few clicks and have track your existing investments.\r\n\r\nFurthermore , you make investments without paying any middlemen commissions and make more returns . 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Instead of the typical real estate transaction where one seller sells to one buyer, Lofty is much more flexible.\r\n\r\nSellers fractionalize their equity ownership in the property into smaller units, so that anyone can buy a portion for as little as $50, allowing access to one of the best asset classes for people who have previously been locked out. Sellers can also sell a portion of their equity (starting at just 10%) instead of the entire property or create customized HELOC structures.\r\n\r\nInvestors can browse a variety of individual real estate properties ranging from commercial strip malls, a HELOC in someone's house, Airbnbs, to a single-family rental properties, and directly purchase ownership in these properties in under 5 minutes. There is no lockup period. Users can constantly trade these ownerships with others on the marketplace.\r\n\r\nInvestors truly legally own the properties they invested in and co-manage it with other investors through an online governance program. Owners have so far voted on how to handle various repairs, delinquent tenants, the sale of the underlying property, and much more.\r\n\r\nLofty never custodies or handles user funds or assets. 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Our customers can evaluate 10x more deals and fund better companies which leads directly to better returns/more alpha.\r\n--\r\n\r\nOur system is the first of its kind to instantly generate complex, comprehensive data packs from raw data in any format, directly from the data room. This enables investors to gain an 80% understanding of a potential deal within moments, empowering them to say No to a deal earlier in the process and focus on high-potential opportunities. Traditionally, creating these detailed data packs—like cohort or retention analyses and customer roll-forwards—takes weeks, during which critical details may be overlooked, potentially costing funds millions in missed insights and poor decisions.\r\n--\r\n\r\nKeye combines cutting-edge AI with deep private equity expertise to deliver powerful, multi-layered insights that go far beyond the simple summarizers and search functions offered by other tools. 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