LinqAlpha announced it has raised $22 million in Series A funding to build what it describes as the Alpha Intelligence Layer for global public markets. The funding round was anchored by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures. And the round also included participation from a global syndicate of strategic financial institutions and venture platforms.
LinqAlpha was founded by Jacob Choi, Subeen Pang, Jin Kim, and Hojun Choi, bringing together former Goldman Sachs analysts and MIT computer science PhDs. Since launch, the company’s platform has been adopted by more than 70 financial institutions across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
The company serves sell-side sales, trading, and research teams at leading investment banks, along with buy-side clients such as Causeway Capital Management and Schonfeld Strategic Advisors. Collectively, LinqAlpha’s buy-side clients manage more than $5 trillion in assets.
LinqAlpha was built to address a major shift in public markets, where traditional research workflows have struggled to keep pace with faster, more global, and increasingly interconnected data signals. The company said institutional investors now face the challenge of synthesizing thousands of moving signals — including supply-chain disruptions, policy changes, social-media activity, earnings calls, and credit-market moves — into differentiated judgment before consensus catches up.
To support this process, LinqAlpha enables institutional teams to deploy specialized AI agents that learn each user’s unique investment framework. The platform is designed to turn each investor’s own accumulated research into AI agents that can surface market-moving signals before they are priced in.
The new funding will be used to expand LinqAlpha’s global team, deepen integrations across market and alternative datasets, and accelerate the deployment of its multi-agent platform across equities, macro, credit, and multi-asset strategies. The company is now headquartered in New York.
LinqAlpha’s Series A syndicate also included strategic participation from SBI Investment and Z Venture Capital in Japan; Betatron Venture Group, East Ventures, and SV Investment across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong SAR; Samsung Securities, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Mirae Asset Capital, NH Investment & Securities, Shinhan Venture Investment, and Hana Ventures in South Korea; and NuVentures in India.
KEY QUOTES:
“The first wave of AI in finance made analysts faster. The next wave changes what they can know. The edge no longer comes from retrieving information; it comes from systems that surface market-moving signals before they are priced in.”
Hojun Choi, co-founder and co-CEO of LinqAlpha
“In effect, LinqAlpha builds a second brain for every investment team: one that turns accumulated research into actionable insight across liquid public markets. 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.”
Jacob Choi, co-founder and co-CEO of LinqAlpha
“Most AI tools in finance help professionals retrieve information faster or automate repetitive work. LinqAlpha is addressing a larger opportunity: building systems that help institutional investors discover differentiated insights in public markets that reward speed, context, and proprietary judgment.”
Manish Agarwal, General Partner at AVP
