In investment management, the final outcome isn't a deck or a memo. It's the trade.
Kimpton is the AI-native research platform for portfolio managers. We're commoditizing the research layer and handing PMs data distilled into structured trades.
The whole industry is fighting underperformance. Active managers trail their benchmarks, and capital keeps bleeding into passive. AI was supposed to fix that, but it hasn't. Funds either stitch together a dozen point tools or babysit general agents all day, and neither gets them to the trade.
Kimpton goes straight to it. It ingests a fund's mandate, strategy, and positions. It runs them through our own harness and returns a structured trade proposal built for that fund. It connects to any institutional data source they already run on. And it's built to disagree, because consensus is poison for investment decisions. Instead of telling a PM what they want to hear, it surfaces the breaches and risks they'd otherwise miss.
We're two ex-Goldman engineers and an ex-SpaceX engineer. We left to start our own quantitative systematic hedge fund. We raised $10M from a family office at 21 and 22, and scaled it to $35M over four years. We built Kimpton inside that fund, then productized the stack.
We're live with our first institutional client, a $3.3B manager, and our first market is fundamental equity funds from $1B to $10B.
Humans make the decisions. Kimpton does everything else.
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Mauricio Ortiz
Co-founder, CEO @ Kimpton AI (YC P26). Building the IDE for investors. Mauricio oversaw the entire technical implementation of the investment process, from research to trade execution, at Level III Capital, a quantitative systematic trading firm he co-founded after raising $10M to seed the fund at the age of 21. Prior to that, he was part of the critical infrastructure team at Goldman Sachs which handled systems for its consumer bank and the Apple Card.
Jack Zumwalt
Co-founder and CEO of Kimpton AI (YC P26). Former detection engineer at Goldman Sachs. Co-founded Level III Capital, a quantitative systematic trading firm, where he ran systematic strategies and managed daily operations after raising $10M at age 22.
LinkedInAdrian Del Bosque
Co-founder and Founding Engineer at Kimpton AI (YC P26). Previously founding engineer at Level III Capital building trading infrastructure. Prior experience as Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer at Vistra Energy and early career at SpaceX on the Automation & Controls team.
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