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The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street (AI column)

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I saw something interesting this weekend. interview Chase and Arnie Englanders, brothers of serial entrepreneurs. Now they're developing a startup. Model MLAn AI-worklpace for financial services that: Automates due diligence research and analysis Integrate with existing systems (SharePoint, FactSet, Capital IQ, Crunchbase) Allows you to create reports, presentations and analytics through natural language queries Processing terabytes of complex financial data Previously, they created and sold two companies through Y Combinator. (Model ML is now third)

  • Fat Llama (YC S17) First fully insured P2P rental space purchased by Hygglo
  • Fancy (YC S20) express delivery service, acquired by Gopuff The interview was conducted by Gustav Alströmer (Gustaf Alstromer) Y Combinator Partner, formerly Head of Growth at Airbnb

To summarize the key ideas, the brothers said the following:

1. Phenomenal growth of the company Model ML is experiencing a period of explosive growth in recent years. 7 The company signed as many contracts as in the entire fourth quarter of last year. This indicates that the market is ready for AI solutions in the financial sector. And I also think it helped. publicity OpenAI and more. 2. The Financial Services Revolution According to the brothers, the company creates a “cognitive architecture”, creating an AI workspace that simulates the digital access of an employee of a financial firm to all systems: files, CRM, supplier data, public documents. This is fundamentally different from traditional office suites. 3. Transition from testing to use 2024 The year has been a turning point - if 2023 Financial institutions have only been testing AI solutions. 2024 In the past year, they have been actively using them. This changed the whole dynamics of the market. 4. The philosophy of perseverance The founders emphasize the importance of logical perseverance – if something is logically justified, you should continue to do it despite the difficulties. It is this quality that distinguishes successful founders.

When it comes to Model ML, the company is already working with 10% of the largest investment banks and private investment funds in the world, including:

  • Investment banks
  • Private equity funds
  • Asset managers
  • Sovereign wealth funds
  • Venture firms The company's strength is in creating a vertically oriented solution that closes the scenarios of employees of such financial firms. February 2025 Model ML raises $ for the year12 Investments led by Y Combinator and LocalGlobe. The company has offices in New York, San Francisco, London and Hong Kong.

The classic Model ML uses advanced AI capabilities Multimodal models for working with different types of data Agency systems for autonomous tasks Integration with vision models for document and graph analysis

The interview is not very interesting, since the authors spend a lot of time talking about their past startups, but the company Model ML looks more interesting. It’s like a reference vertically oriented AI company that needs to run faster than model providers like OpenAI, Google DeepMind or Anthropic, whose models are becoming more powerful and potentially able to close many scenarios out of the box.

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