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7 Chord
Techstars '17New York City, US · Founded 2017 · 5 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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7 Chord builds BondDroid, an AI system that predicts bid/ask prices and forecasts trends for corporate bonds, and automates market-making quote generation. It serves institutional bond traders and investors—including asset managers, ETF traders, and liquidity providers—via enterprise deployment, hosted subscription, and bulk historical data plans.
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Company profile
researched Sep 20267 Chord Inc is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that operates BondDroid, a bond pricing and analytics engine. The system produces price estimates and analytical insights for thinly traded fixed income instruments, covering both sovereign and corporate bonds, and is used by fixed income traders, issuers and institutional investors to assess risk and support trading decisions.
The pricing engine is built on real-time learning technology developed by the company's co-founders at NYU, which the company positions as allowing rapid adaptation to volatile market conditions and rare, extreme market events. Intraday pricing is delivered for roughly 16 hours per weekday and supported by a follow-the-sun service model. Clients cited include Broadridge Financial Solutions, which selected 7 Chord as the intraday corporate bond price source for its LTX digital trading platform, as well as Fortune 500 companies.
Business model
7 Chord supplies predictive bond pricing and analytics to institutional market participants, distributing its BondDroid output to trading desks, issuers, investors and to trading platform operators that embed its prices as a data source, as in the case of Broadridge's LTX corporate bond trading platform.
Revenue is generated from institutional clients for predictive pricing and analytics services; estimated annual revenue was reported in the $1M-$10M range as of August 2026.
Traction
Reported clients include Broadridge Financial Solutions, which uses 7 Chord as the intraday corporate bond price source for its LTX platform, plus Fortune 500 companies; headcount was approximately five as of August 2026.
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Market position
A small, independent provider of predictive bond pricing and analytics in the capital markets sector, comparable in focus to fixed income data and trading infrastructure providers such as Charles River Development, S&P Global Market Intelligence, Algomi, BondWave, FactSet, MarketAxess and Liquidnet.
The company positions BondDroid around real-time learning technology developed by its co-founders at NYU, intended to adapt quickly to volatile conditions and rare black-swan events, and around coverage of thinly traded fixed income instruments where observable prices are scarce.
Technology
BondDroid is a pricing engine based on real-time learning technology developed by the company's co-founders at NYU, generating price estimates and analytics for thinly traded fixed income instruments and delivering intraday pricing for about 16 hours per weekday.
Go-to-market
The company sells directly to institutional trading desks, issuers and investors, and distributes pricing through trading platform partners that integrate its data, such as Broadridge's LTX platform.
Fixed income traders, bond issuers and institutional investors, including sell-side desks, buy-side firms and Fortune 500 companies.
Geography
Headquartered in New York, United States, with employees reported on one continent (North America) and a follow-the-sun support model serving clients globally.
History
The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York. In October 2020, Broadridge Financial Solutions selected it as the intraday corporate bond price source for its AI-driven LTX trading platform. In September 2021, the company appointed Andrew Sundstrom as Chief Science Officer. As of August 2026 it was reported to have approximately five employees and estimated annual revenue in the $1M-$10M range.
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filings7 Chord, Inc., described as an independent provider of predictive sovereign and corporate bond prices to fixed income traders, issuers and institutional investors, announced the appointment of Andrew Sundstrom as Chief Science Officer.
Broadridge Financial Solutions selected 7 Chord as the source of intraday corporate bond prices for LTX, its AI-driven digital corporate bond trading platform.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does 7 Chord do?
- 7 Chord operates BondDroid, a predictive pricing and analytics engine for sovereign and corporate bonds used by institutional fixed income market participants.
- Who are 7 Chord's investors?
- 7 Chord's investors include Techstars.
- Where is 7 Chord headquartered?
- 7 Chord is headquartered in New York City, US.