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Our mission

We're building the AI agent that never sleeps.

Markets generate more data every day than any human desk can read. MindAlpha's autonomous AI agent closes that gap — researching the market around the clock, generating every signal and backtesting each one itself, so the firehose becomes a handful of clear, high-conviction calls anyone can act on.

Why we started

Institutional desks have spent decades building data pipelines, quant teams and execution infrastructure. Everyone else gets a delayed chart and a hunch. We thought that asymmetry was worth attacking.

MindAlpha began in 2024 as a research project: could an autonomous AI agent produce trade ideas that were not just accurate, but explainable and calibrated — generating and backtesting each one itself — so a trader could size on them with confidence? The answer became a product.

What we believe

Edge comes from data discipline, honest AI backtesting, and ruthless risk control — not hype. The agent ships every signal with its reasoning attached, and we never pretend the market is solved.

PRINCIPLE 01

Transparency over black boxes

Every signal carries its confidence and its drivers. If we can't explain it, we don't ship it.

PRINCIPLE 02

Risk before reward

Invalidation and position sizing are part of the signal, not an afterthought.

PRINCIPLE 03

Earn trust with evidence

Walk-forward tested, out-of-sample validated, and measured in the open.

2024
Founded
18
Team members
420+
Instruments covered
3
Continents
The team

Quants, engineers and traders.

A small team from markets, machine learning and infrastructure.

LC

Luke Clinch

Co-founder & CEO

15 years in systematic trading
RM

Riya Mehta

Co-founder & Head of Research

PhD, machine learning
LC

Liang Chen

Head of Engineering

Low-latency systems
SD

Salif Diallo

Lead Quant Researcher

Derivatives & volatility
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