QuantConnect
New York City, US · Founded 2013 · Delaware corporation
QuantConnect provides a cloud-based platform for quantitative and algorithmic trading, offering research notebooks, backtesting, parameter optimization, and live trading across equities, options, futures, forex, CFDs, and crypto. It serves quants, researchers, and professional trading firms, and maintains LEAN, an open-source algorithmic trading engine, along with a marketplace of alternative datasets.
Founders & leadership
QuantConnect was founded in 2013 by Jared Broad.
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$3.4M disclosed across 3 rounds · 2016–2022
▶$1.5MraisedJan 2023 · 1 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Johannes Rudolph StanderDirector
- Jared BroadExecutive Officer, Director
- Chris UdyDirector
- Offering amount
- $1.5M
- Amount sold
- $1.5M
- Minimum investment
- $100K
- First sale
- Dec 2022
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$960KraisedFeb 2016 · 3 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Jared BroadDirector, Executive Officer
- Offering amount
- $960K
- Amount sold
- $960K
- Minimum investment
- $100K
- First sale
- Jan 2016
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2013
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$960KraisedFeb 2016 · 3 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Jared BroadDirector, Executive Officer
- Offering amount
- $960K
- Amount sold
- $960K
- Minimum investment
- $100K
- First sale
- Jan 2016
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2013
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Competitors · 3
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Frequently asked questions
- What does QuantConnect do?
- QuantConnect provides a cloud-based platform for quantitative and algorithmic trading, offering research notebooks, backtesting, parameter optimization, and live trading across equities, options, futures, forex, CFDs, and crypto. It serves quants, researchers, and professional trading firms, and maintains LEAN, an open-source algorithmic trading engine, along with a marketplace of alternative datasets.
- Who founded QuantConnect?
- QuantConnect was founded by Jared Broad in 2013.
- How much funding has QuantConnect raised?
- QuantConnect has disclosed $3.4M raised across 3 rounds.
- Where is QuantConnect headquartered?
- QuantConnect is headquartered in New York City, US.

