LinqAlpha

LinqAlpha is an AI company building what it calls the "Alpha Intelligence Layer" for global public markets. Its platform lets hedge funds, asset managers and investment banks deploy specialized AI agents that learn a team's own investment framework and thesis history, rather than relying on a generic model, and synthesize structured and unstructured data into research output. The company positions the product around automating complex, multi-step investment research so analysts can surface market-moving signals before they are reflected in consensus.

The core product, LinqAlpha Terminal, unifies company fundamentals, global share prices, earnings transcripts, macroeconomic releases, ETFs and funds, analyst estimates and revisions, global filings, FX/commodities/treasuries, ownership data, internal documents and real-time web search into a single research environment. It interprets a query's entity, intent and required sources, pulls market data and signals, searches filings and internal documents, and runs purpose-built workflows, returning source-linked outputs that users can verify. Features include automated multi-step workflows, a persistent workspace, cross-model delegation and session continuity. Common use cases cited by the company are market signal monitoring, company screening, fundamental analysis, sentiment and trend tracking, and competitive landscape analysis.

The company states it reasons across 139+ countries and tens of thousands of companies in native languages, processing 30+ languages. It emphasizes enterprise security, listing SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, secure cloud infrastructure, zero data retention agreements, end-to-end encryption, audit logging, token-based authentication on encrypted API gateways and multi-factor authentication.

Founding story

The company was founded in 2022 by Jacob Chanyeol Choi, Subeen Pang, Jin Kim and Hojun Choi, combining former Goldman Sachs analysts and MIT computer science PhDs. Co-CEO Hojun Choi studied Business Administration and International Relations at Seoul National University, served as an intelligence analyst in the Republic of Korea Army, worked in asset-backed financing and strategic equity derivatives at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, then moved to Macquarie Group's infrastructure and real assets division, and previously led the legal technology venture Law&Good as President/CSO. He has described the idea for LinqAlpha as emerging from the recognition that generative AI could help financial professionals handle an explosion of structured and unstructured data beyond human memory and attention limits. Co-CEO Jacob Chanyeol Choi holds an MIT EECS PhD and previously worked at Qualcomm CDMA Technologies; both co-CEOs are Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees.

Business model

Enterprise software sold to financial institutions, with the platform deployed to sell-side sales, trading and research teams at investment banks and to buy-side asset managers and hedge funds; the company markets demos to prospective institutional clients.

Sold to institutional financial firms as a research platform; specific pricing terms are not disclosed.

Traction

The company reports serving more than 70 financial institutions across the U.S., Europe and Asia as of July 2026, including buy-side clients Causeway Capital Management LLC and Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC, whose collective assets under management exceed $5 trillion. An earlier founder profile cited 90+ global clients. Website figures state coverage of more than 57,000 companies across 120+ (elsewhere 139+) countries.

Latest developments

In July 2026 LinqAlpha announced a $22 million Series A anchored by AVP, Atinum Investment and GFT Ventures, describing the round as oversubscribed, with proceeds earmarked for expanding its global team under its new New York headquarters, deepening integrations across market and alternative datasets, and extending its multi-agent platform across equities, macro, credit and multi-asset strategies. The company has also announced the launch of LinqAlpha AI Lab, focused on when investors can trust AI systems, and said it was named Best AI Solution at the 2026 Hedge Fund Services Awards.