Atg

Autonomous Technologies Group (ATG) is an applied AI research lab headquartered in New York City, with a second location in San Francisco, that builds systems for financial intelligence. Its core product, Autonomous, is an AI-driven financial companion and investment strategist that combines market data analysis, portfolio construction, tax considerations, behavioral finance and an individual's personal financial context in a single system. ATG states that Autonomous is a registered investment advisor (RIA) under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA, and that its Investment Doctrine is the set of guidelines governing how the system makes suitable recommendations across financial decisions.

The company frames its work around three objectives: teaching the system to understand markets by synthesizing quantitative and qualitative signals beyond price and volume; understanding an individual's preferences, goals and constraints as part of their complete financial life; and advancing the system's representational capabilities, meaning its ability to communicate findings through adaptive, generative interfaces spanning voice, charts and written analysis. On returns, ATG distinguishes scarce, capacity-constrained market alpha from tax alpha, which it describes as repeatable and substantial but historically dependent on expensive infrastructure, and positions Autonomous as delivering that optimization at scale.

Autonomous is currently an application that onboards users into a system that learns their financial life and provides guidance; ATG's stated roadmap is for the system to eventually act on users' behalf continuously, whether or not the application is open. ATG describes itself as both an AI research lab and a product company focused on applied reasoning models for financial decision-making.

Founding story

ATG was founded by Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran, co-founders of the GPU cloud provider Paperspace, which DigitalOcean acquired in 2023 for $111 million. Following that exit, the pair spoke with financial advisors across firms and regions and reported finding inconsistent recommendations for similar clients and high fees, which led them to target the advisory layer itself rather than build another portfolio-rebalancing tool.

Business model

ATG delivers Autonomous as a consumer-facing application operating under a registered investment advisor structure, offering advice on users' existing accounts or allowing assets to be moved onto the platform so strategies can be implemented directly.

The company said it would launch with zero advisory fees for early users and no trading fees, with a stated long-term goal of keeping the service free or priced well below traditional advisors.

Traction

At the time of its January 2026 stealth exit, ATG had raised $15 million in pre-seed funding and grown to a team of 15, including engineers and researchers previously at Meta, Spotify and American Express; the product was pre-launch with a waitlist.

Latest developments

In January 2026, ATG emerged from stealth with a $15 million pre-seed round backed by Y Combinator's Alumni Fund, Garry Tan, Collaborative Group, Fusion Fund, Box Group and the founder of a quantitative hedge fund, and said public access and an iOS launch were planned for early 2026.