INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
To get an edge on the market, investors must look beyond traditional financial info like revenue and profits
Our every online activity generates data exhaust like web traffic, Twitter mentions, app downloads, and search trends
Sentieo wants to be their tool.Sentieo is an investment research software suite that uses AI to scan financial documents, analyze
alternative data sets, and create visualizations
The fintech SAAS startup now has 700 customers including top hedge funds plus mutual funds, Fortune 500s, and investment banks who pay
around $500 to $1000 per year per license
year ago, Shah was making the Wall Street rounds after graduating from Harvard in economics
He was an analyst in consulting at Novantas, private equity at Castanea, and worked for hedges funds VIking Global and Citadel
that could understand the nuances of business momentum before it showed up in the balance sheets.Sentieo does have a traditional financial
equity data terminal with real-time pricing
earnings call transcripts, press releases, and more
It taps Alexa web traffic data, Apptopia app download rates, and Twitter chatter, as well as Thomson Reuters analyst estimates and
Or you could search for all the companies starting to list President Trump as a risk factor for their business, which would surface how the
100 page 10-Q documents manually
engineering must keep data from all 50 feeds, 25 million documents, and 64,000 equities flowing to keep customers satisfied
There are a ton of moving parts, and Sentieo is competing with much bigger companies
Beyond Bloomberg, there are lots of alternative data providers out there
If Robinhood is on one side of the spectrum making investing easy for novice traders, Sentieo is on the other end making investing smarter
briefly rented a room in an apartment where Shah lived five years ago and I know him from the San Francisco social scene frequented by many
