LinqAlpha Raises $22M to Build the Intelligence Layer for Public Markets

LinqAlpha (Techstars 2023) just raised $22 million in Series A funding to keep building what it calls the Alpha Intelligence Layer, a platform that turns each investor's own research into AI agents that surface market-moving signals before they're priced in.

The Problem LinqAlpha Set Out to Solve

Public markets move fast. A supply-chain disruption in Asia, a policy shift in Europe, a social-media post, an earnings call, and a credit-market move can all become part of the same investment thesis within hours. For institutional investors, the hard part isn't finding information anymore. It's turning thousands of moving signals into a differentiated point of view before everyone else catches up.

LinqAlpha was built by a team that knows this problem firsthand. Founders Jacob Choi, Subeen Pang, Jin Kim, and Hojun Choi bring together former Goldman Sachs analysts and MIT computer science PhDs, and since launch, the platform has been adopted quickly. More than 70 financial institutions across the U.S., Europe, and Asia now use it, including sell-side sales, trading, and research teams at major investment banks, plus buy-side clients like Causeway Capital Management and Schonfeld Strategic Advisors. Together, those buy-side clients manage more than $5 trillion in assets.

Agents That Learn How You Think

Instead of handing every user the same generic model, LinqAlpha lets institutional teams deploy AI agents trained on their own investment framework.

"The first wave of AI in finance made analysts faster. The next wave changes what they can know," said Hojun Choi, co-founder and co-CEO of LinqAlpha. "The edge no longer comes from retrieving information; it comes from systems that surface market-moving signals before they are priced in."

"In effect, LinqAlpha builds a second brain for every investment team: one that turns accumulated research into actionable insight across liquid public markets," said Jacob Choi, co-founder and co-CEO of LinqAlpha. "Instead of a generic model's average answer, each team gets agents that reason in the context of its own thesis history and evolve with its feedback and market view."

What's Next

LinqAlpha will use the new funding to grow its global team out of its New York headquarters, deepen integrations across market and alternative datasets, and accelerate its multi-agent platform across equities, macro, credit, and multi-asset strategies.

Congratulations to the LinqAlpha team on this milestone. Learn more at linqalpha.com.