FinovateSpring 2015 / PsychSignal
Presenter Profile:
How they describe themselves: PsychSignal is a privately-held Delaware Corporation that works with quant funds, hedge funds, trade execution platforms, chart platforms, investment advisory firms and traders to deliver innovative solutions and licensable public opinion data mining data feeds & web applications to the investment community.
How they describe their product/innovation: The Company’s “Natural Language Processing Engine API” delivers the public’s real-time opinions about stocks and other financial securities by categorizing and quantifying the millions of “tweets” and “ messages” issued by Twitter, StockTwits, T3Live chat rooms, and other social media sources.
The Company’s PsychCycle algorithms extract the signals from the social-media sentiment data noise to dramatically improve traders’ ability to objectively anticipate market turns.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Press, & Sales: James Crane-Baker, CEO, james@psychsignal.com, 805-284-8654 &
Bjorn D.H. Simundson, Marketing & Sales, bjorn@psychsignal.com, (o) 805-678-0602
Website: psychsignal.com
Blog: blog.psychsignal.com
Twitter: @psychsignal
HQ: Miami, FL
Product Demoed: PsychSignal/PsychCycle
Product Launch: May 13, 2015
Presenters: James Crane-Baker (CEO), Bjorn Simundson (CMO)
- Key Executives
James Crane-Baker (Co-Founder & CEO), Ramon Bispo (Co-Founder & Developer), Leonardo Almeida (Co-Founder & CTO), Bjorn D.H. Simundson (CMO), Dr. Matthew Checkley (Data Analysis & Modeling)
Key Stats
- Key Board Members
James Crane-Baker (Co-Founder & CEO)
- Key Investors
WorldQuant Ventures
- Key Advisory Board Members
Dr. Bob Nisbet (Data Analysis & Modeling), Dr. James Pennebaker (Linguistics & Language Processing), Dr. Erin Olivo (Crowd Psychology), Lex Sisney (Executive Advisory), Mitch McBride (Big-Data Architecture), Andrew Actman (Financial Advisory), Helen Belogolova (Decisions-Matrix Advisory), T3 Live (Chatroom Datafeed), Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professional Corporation (Legal Advisory)
- Key Partnerships
Quandl.com, T3Live.com, TradeStation.com, DeltixLab.com, InteractiveBrokers.com
- Key Customers
TradeStation.com, SamsaraInvestments.com