Kensho

company

About

Kensho combines natural language search, graphical user interfaces, and secure cloud computing to create a new class of analytics tools.

  • 51 - 100

Details

Last Funding Type
Series B
Last Funding Money Raised
$50M
Industries
Analytics,Cloud Data Services,Machine Learning,Software
Founded date
May 1, 2013
Number Of Employee
51 - 100
Operating Status
Active

Kensho combines natural language search queries, graphical user interfaces, and secure cloud computing to create a new class of analytics tools for investment professionals. Addressing the three biggest challenges surrounding investment analysis on Wall Street today—speed, scale, and automation—Kensho's intelligent computer systems are capable of answering complex financial questions posed in plain English.

Kensho is a data analytics and machine intelligence company. Kensho deploys scalable machine learning and analytics systems across the most critical government and commercial institutions in the world to solve some of the hardest analytical problems of our time.

Founded in the spring of 2013 out of MIT and Harvard, Kensho's senior team members come from veteran positions at Google, Apple, and the United States Federal Reserve.

They are a diverse and spirited group of engineers, scientists, and financial professionals who are accomplished analytical thinkers and passionate problem solvers. Together, their multi-talented team includes Ph.D. physicists, a three-time International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) world champion, Ph.D. economists, internationally competitive chess players, the author of Quantitative Finance for Physicists, a member of the original Apple iPhone engineering team, and one of the youngest ever entrants to Harvard College (age 15).

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
2
$60M
Kensho has raised a total of $60M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Feb 28, 2017 from a Series B round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Feb 28, 2017 Series B $50M 3 Detail
Mar 12, 2014 Seed $10M 1 Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
4
Kensho is funded by 4 investors. Citi and JP Morgan Chase are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
Citi Series B
JP Morgan Chase Series B
General Catalyst Series B
Experiment Fund Seed