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NEW YORK, NY - June 9, 2026
Ingenuity Trading Enters New Growth Phase With Moneta Ventures Investment
Capital to Broaden Coverage Across Products and Markets, Deepen AI-Driven Intelligence, and Scale Institutional Distribution... -
New York, NY - Dec 24, 2025
Ingenuity Trading Announces Successful Year One Go-Live of U.S. Equities Trading Platform
An AI-powered institutional trading platform designed to unify research, ideation, and seamless multi-asset execution, today... -
New York, NY - Dec 01, 2025
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When we first met Pallav Chhaochhria, PhD, he was chasing a vision most people in institutional finance considered impossible... -
New York, NY – June 24, 2025
Ingenuity Trading and ThinkAlpha Announce Partnership to Redefine AI-Driven Institutional Execution
The partnership brings together ThinkAlpha’s high-performance trading and data analytics infrastructure with Ingenuity’s smart algos and AI-powered trade insights ... -
New York, NY – June 4, 2025
Naz Al-Khudairi Joins Ingenuity Trading to Lead the Future of Institutional Execution
Accomplished Wall Street Leader Steps In to Power the Next-Generation of Institutional Trading Performance... -
New York, NY – May 28, 2025
Ingenuity Trading Welcomes Nikhil Sudan as Operating Partner to Deliver Impact for Institutional Investor Clients
Ingenuity Trading, a financial technology company, announces that Nikhil Sudan has joined the firm as an Operating Partner... -
New York, NY – May 14, 2025
Transforming Institutional Trading With Ingenuity
Pallav Chhaochhria’s journey into FinTech began with an audacious idea: to create a GenAI-powered institutional brokerage platform... -
New York, NY – May 2, 2025
Ingenuity Trading to Disrupt $9B Institutional Trading Market with AI-Powered Platform and Algos
New FinTech company to enable institutional investors with a sophisticated trading platform powered by AI Agents and advanced algo strategies across asset classes....
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May 2, 2025
Ingenuity Trading to Disrupt $9B Institutional Trading Market with AI-Powered Platform and Algos
New FinTech company to enable institutional investors with a sophisticated trading platform powered by AI Agents and advanced algo strategies across asset classes.
New York, NY – May 2, 2025 – Ingenuity Trading, a new financial technology company, will soon launch its integrated AI-powered trading platform and algo strategies, designed to empower traders at institutional investment managers and hedge funds. The platform will boost institutional trader productivity with its cross-asset infrastructure, real-time analytics, and AI Agent-driven recommendations - enabling traders from idea to execution, with integrated analytics before, during and after each trade.
Ingenuity Trading is founded by Pallav Chhaochhria and Karthik Teki, seasoned professionals in algorithmic trading and AI. Ingenuity Co-founder and President, Pallav Chhaochhria stated, "Having experienced the challenges that most small and mid-sized institutional traders face – paying high commissions but only receiving slow and limited services – we recognized the need for a seamless AI-integrated platform and built it." Chhaochhria brings extensive experience building systematic trading strategies for proprietary trading firms and large Wall Street banks.
Karthik Teki, Co-founder and CEO, added, "At Ingenuity Trading, we address traders' challenges by delivering real-time analytics and intra-trade recommendations. Our platform will now deliver institutional investors the insights that were previously only available to the largest clients of Wall Street banks." Teki's background includes developing sophisticated algos and trading platforms at bulge bracket banks.
Ingenuity is guided by a distinguished team of Operating Partners, whose expertise spans global capital markets, asset management, and business strategy. Among them:
- Naz Al-Khudairi, who led global electronic trading at Barclays and Credit Suisse.
- Nikhil Sudan, who was Partner at McKinsey & Company and President of Victory Capital InVest.
Visit www.ingenuity.trading to learn more about Ingenuity Trading and its innovative AI-powered trading platform.
Contact Information: contact@ingenuity.trading
May 14, 2025
TRANSFORMING INSTITUTIONAL TRADING WITH INGENUITY
New York, NY – May 14, 2025 – Pallav Chhaochhria’s journey into FinTech began with an audacious idea: to create a GenAI-powered institutional brokerage platform that would revolutionize how asset managers and hedge funds trade. Institutional brokerage is an exclusive space, dominated by a handful of global players, making entry nearly impossible. Despite skepticism and doubts, Pallav and his co-founder coded a working prototype that transformed their vision into a tangible opportunity, eventually securing funding from an institutional broker to accelerate their growth.
Breaking into the institutional brokerage market was an uphill battle. Pallav and his team faced not only technical challenges but also the daunting task of disrupting an industry controlled by titans like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. The journey required relentless determination, innovative thinking, and a belief in their mission to simplify and improve the trading experience for asset managers.
ACHIEVEMENTS :
- Developed a GenAI-powered platform that integrates trade research, order entry, and trade analysis across all asset classes, improving execution speed and accuracy.
- Reduced platform costs and client fees by over 85%, making institutional trading more accessible and cost-effective.
- Secured funding and support from an institutional broker, a testament to the platform’s potential and market impact.
Visit www.ingenuity.trading to learn more about Ingenuity Trading and its innovative AI-powered trading platform.
Contact Information: contact@ingenuity.trading
May 28, 2025
Ingenuity Trading Welcomes Nikhil Sudan as Operating Partner to Deliver Impact for Institutional Investor Clients
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, May 28, 2025 – Ingenuity Trading, a financial technology company, announces that Nikhil Sudan has joined the firm as an Operating Partner, and will play a key role in guiding the Co-Founders, Pallav Chhaochhria and Karthik Teki, as they empower traders at institutional investment managers and hedge funds with their integrated AI-powered trading platform and algo strategies.
Improving trade execution has dual benefits - delivering higher investment returns and lowering expenses. Ingenuity combines the potential of AI Agents with sophisticated trading to achieve these.” - Nikhil Sudan
Nikhil Sudan is distinctive at growing global investment firms - both as a strategist and a business operator. He has held senior roles including as President of Victory Capital InVest, a large investment and brokerage business, and Partner in McKinsey & Company’s wealth and asset management practice. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer of a quantitative long-short equity hedge fund, and a Transformation Leader at Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund.
Sudan stated “I am delighted to partner with Karthik and Pallav to grow Ingenuity. Trading is a critical but often under appreciated function of any investment manager from a systematic hedge fund to a long-only asset manager. Improving trade execution has dual benefits - delivering higher investment returns and lowering expenses. By combining the potential of AI Agents with sophisticated trading expertise, we are enabling our clients to achieve these dual benefits.”
Karthik Teki, Co-founder and CEO, added, "Investment returns are often eroded by market impact and execution slippage – costs that remain largely invisible to investors. Over the past decade, rising trading-related expenses – including high broker algo commissions, exchange fees, and regulatory charges – have materially increased transaction costs. These hidden frictions have contributed to growing underperformance among active managers and higher tracking error for passive strategies."
"Ingenuity’s AI-powered trading platform and smart execution algos are engineered to deliver superior performance and unlock substantial reductions in trading costs for investment managers," noted Pallav Chhaochhria, Co-founder and President.
Ingenuity Trading is a FinTech company that enables institutional investors with a sophisticated trading platform powered by AI Agents and advanced algo strategies across asset classes.
Visit ingenuity.trading to learn more
Contact Information: contact@ingenuity.trading
June 4, 2025
Naz Al-Khudairi Joins Ingenuity Trading to Lead the Future of Institutional Execution
Accomplished Wall Street Leader Steps In to Power the Next-Generation of Institutional Trading Performance.
NEW YORK, NY, June 4, 2025 – Ingenuity Trading, a fintech platform redefining electronic trade execution, announces that industry veteran Naz Al-Khudairi has joined as Operating Partner. Working alongside Co-Founders, Pallav Chhaochhria and Karthik Teki, and Operating Partner, Nikhil Sudan, Naz will help guide the firm’s strategic growth initiatives as it brings advanced algorithmic execution and AI capabilities to institutional investors.
Naz has a 25-year track record in building and leading world-class multi-asset class electronic execution platforms. He spearheaded the development of Credit Suisse’s top-ranked AES cross-asset platform and the global rebuild of BARX at Barclays - driving innovation across multiple asset classes for institutional clients
His prior roles include:
- Global Head of Markets Electronic Trading, Barclays
- Global Head of Markets Electronic Trading, Credit Suisse
“I’m thrilled to partner with Karthik and Pallav at Ingenuity Trading,” said Naz Al-Khudairi. “By combining AI with a truly multi-asset platform, Ingenuity has created a uniquely powerful offering — enabling traders to elevate their pre- and post-trade productivity through real-time analytics and AI-driven insights.”
“Traders shouldn’t have to fight their tools,” added Karthik Teki, Co-founder and CEO. “Ingenuity changes that — we’ve built a unified platform that works the same across asset classes and geographies — minimizing friction, reducing errors, and lowering total execution costs.”
“Ingenuity’s AI-powered trading platform and intelligent execution algos are built for high performance and ultra-low latency— leveraging sophisticated models on top-tier trading infrastructure. Our multi-asset architecture is a structural advantage that streamlines execution, cuts platform costs, and unlocks real savings for institutional clients,” said Pallav Chhaochhria, Co-founder and President.
About Ingenuity Trading
Ingenuity Trading is a FinTech company transforming institutional execution through a next-generation trading platform powered by AI Agents and intelligent algorithmic strategies. Built from the ground up as a unified, multi-asset system, Ingenuity eliminates the complexity of fragmented workflows—enabling clients to trade equities, futures, FX, and more with consistency, precision, and speed.
The platform combines real-time analytics, AI-driven insights, and ultra-low-latency infrastructure to help institutional traders optimize execution and reduce costs. Ingenuity delivers a consistent experience for sales traders, PMs, and quants across asset classes, geographies, and trading styles—unlocking new levels of productivity and control.
Visit: ingenuity.trading to learn more
Contact Information: contact@ingenuity.trading
June 24, 2025
Ingenuity Trading and ThinkAlpha Announce Partnership to Redefine AI-Driven Institutional Execution
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, June 24, 2025 – Ingenuity Trading, announced today a strategic partnership from ThinkAlpha to supercharge its intelligent, AI-powered trading platform with unmatched ultra-low-latency capabilities.
At ThinkAlpha, we've engineered our platform for determinism, concurrency, and scale so that Ingenuity can focus on innovation and deliver measurable value to clients across the spectrum.” - Omar Kathwari, CEO, ThinkAlpha Technologies
The partnership brings together ThinkAlpha’s high-performance trading and data analytics infrastructure with Ingenuity’s smart algos and AI-powered trade insights — creating an end-to-end solution designed to optimize execution quality, reduce trading costs, and empower traders at institutional asset managers and hedge funds.
“Institutional traders typically have to use multiple platforms to research trades, place orders, and get pre- and post-trade analytics for each asset class,” said Karthik Teki, Co-founder and CEO of Ingenuity. “ThinkAlpha’s technology eliminates friction and enables us to deliver on our promise of unified, intelligent, and high-speed execution across asset classes. Their performance-focused platform is purpose-built for firms like ours—making them a natural partner for us.”
Why ThinkAlpha Technologies?
Ingenuity selected ThinkAlpha after a rigorous review of infrastructure providers, citing their unmatched capabilities in delivering deterministic execution and advanced analytics at institutional scale. ThinkAlpha's Software Development Kit (SDK)-based transactional architecture achieves a deterministic median sub-50 µs tick-to-trade latency — significantly outperforming legacy agency and banking platforms. Its real-time market data infrastructure, with unique low-latency capture, powers integrated drop-copy analytics and intraday Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA), enabling traders to make quick adjustments. Additionally, ThinkAlpha’s dynamic tooling for quant research supports real-time and historical data streaming, allowing for rapid prototyping and high-throughput strategy development.
“ThinkAlpha’s modular SDKs and high-speed infrastructure enables us to innovate at unprecedented speed.,” added Pallav Chhaochhria, Co-founder and President of Ingenuity. “We’re building execution intelligence on top of the fastest trading rails available to clients, delivering measurable advantages.”
“Ingenuity is setting a new standard in AI-powered trading,” said Omar Kathwari , CEO of ThinkAlpha Technologies. “At ThinkAlpha, we’ve engineered our platform for determinism, concurrency, and scale—so firms like Ingenuity can focus on innovation and deliver measurable value to clients across the spectrum.”
About Ingenuity Trading:
Ingenuity Trading is a FinTech company transforming institutional execution through a next-generation trading platform powered by AI Agents and intelligent algorithmic strategies. Built from the ground up as a unified, multi-asset system, Ingenuity eliminates the complexity of fragmented workflows—enabling clients to trade equities, futures, FX, and more with consistency, precision, and speed.
Founded by Karthik Teki and Pallav Chhaochhria, and guided by industry veterans including Naz Al-Khudairi and Nikhil Sudan, Ingenuity brings deep domain expertise to the forefront of trading innovation.
The platform combines real-time analytics, AI-driven insights, and ultra-low-latency infrastructure to help institutional traders optimize execution and reduce costs. Ingenuity delivers a consistent experience for sales traders, PMs, and quants across asset classes, geographies, and trading styles—unlocking new levels of productivity and control.
About ThinkAlpha:
Founded by industry veterans, ThinkAlpha is a high-performance fintech platform purpose-built for transactional, analytical, and programmatic trading at scale. ThinkAlpha combines cutting-edge infrastructure with a commitment to innovation, delivering ultra-low-latency execution, real-time analytics, and robust risk services for institutional clients.
ThinkAlpha’s proprietary technology stack features high-speed trading SDKs in C++ and Python, a next-generation market data infrastructure, and flexible APIs—all designed to support execution latencies under 50 microseconds. By colocating in NY4 and leveraging advanced programming techniques alongside direct market access, the platform delivers unmatched data throughput and lightning-fast trade execution.
Visit ingenuity.trading to learn more
Contact Information: contact@ingenuity.trading
Dec 1, 2025
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New York, NY - Nov 25, 2025 - When we first met Pallav Chhaochhria, PhD, he was chasing a vision most people in institutional finance considered impossible: to build a GenAI-powered institutional brokerage capable of rivaling the industry's biggest incumbents.
Institutional brokerage is one of the most exclusive corners of finance - dominated by decades-old giants and infrastructure that rarely changes. But Pallav and his co-founder didn’t wait for permission.
They built a prototype from scratch, turned skepticism into momentum, and eventually secured backing from an institutional broker to bring their vision to life.
That vision became Ingenuity Trading.
And 2025 marks a turning point:
- Strategic partnership with ThinkAlpha to accelerate AI-driven execution
- LIVE + ramping up trading in Q4 with sub-millisecond (< 1ms) performance
- Integrated transaction cost analysis for transparency & efficiency
- Launched a portfolio optimization toolkit for seamless, data-driven workflows
Every milestone reflects Ingenuity's mission: to challenge the old guard, reimagine execution, and empower institutional investors through AI.
Pallav’s journey - from an idea few believed in to a platform now ready to rival industry titans - is proof that: “The future doesn’t belong to those who wait for disruption - it belongs to those who build it.”
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Dec 24, 2025
Ingenuity Trading Announces Successful Year One Go-Live of U.S. Equities Trading Platform
Modern Architecture and Resilient Infrastructure Power a Strong First Year
New York, NY, Dec 24, 2025- Ingenuity Trading, an AI-powered institutional trading platform designed to unify research, ideation, and seamless multi-asset execution, today announced its go-live. Demonstrating rapid execution and delivery, Ingenuity has gone live in its inaugural year, now offering U.S. equities execution with Sweep, VWAP, TWAP, POV, and Liquidity Seeking algorithms through a purpose-built, ultra low latency execution stack.
Built with modern data architectures and real-time intelligence, Ingenuity enables traders to move from idea generation to order execution in seconds, supported by an end-to-end infrastructure purpose-built for institutional workflows. The platform's capabilities span equities, with an architecture designed to extend across futures, options, FX, and additional asset classes.
Ingenuity delivers a trading stack that matches the speed and intelligence of markets. Built AI-native from day one, it enables real-time analytics, customization, and ultra-fast execution!”
- Karthik Teki, CEO, Ingenuity Trading
Ingenuity Trading's ability to go live in its first year reflects the strength of its partnership with ThinkAlpha Technologies. Through integrated brokerage services, technology support, and shared operational expertise, ThinkAlpha Technologies played a key role in accelerating Ingenuity's path to production. ThinkAlpha Technologies's ultra-low-latency transaction platform provided the speed and stability required for rapid development, and its powerful data platform delivered high-quality market and reference data essential for high-speed trading. This collaboration enabled a fast and seamless transition from development to live trading.
AI-Driven Workflow Transformation Ingenuity integrates three core components into a single institutional platform:
- - AI-powered research and ideation — allowing users to interpret simple English requests and translate them into quantitative insights, model evaluations, or order-customization logic.
- - Real-time trade analytics & adaptive recommendations — enabling traders to receive intra-trade insights, performance diagnostics, and AI-guided adjustments as market conditions evolve.
- - Ultra low-latency execution solution designed to outperform traditional agency routing platforms by an order of magnitude. Its highly concurrent processing and optimized market connectivity provide a tangible advantage in execution quality.
This unified architecture simplifies institutional workflows, removes manual bottlenecks, and empowers users to operate with a level of speed and precision difficult to achieve with traditional electronic trading stacks.
A Platform Built for the Next Decade of Electronic Trading
With its launch, Ingenuity Trading enters the market as a modern alternative to legacy offerings—combining the execution performance of electronic trading specialists with the intelligence, automation, and flexibility of next-generation AI systems. The firm’s vision is to empower traders with a platform that reduces operational overhead, increases execution transparency, and accelerates the path from alpha discovery to trade completion.
About Ingenuity Trading:
Ingenuity Trading is a FinTech company transforming institutional execution through a next-generation trading platform powered by AI Agents and intelligent algorithmic strategies. Built from the ground up as a unified, multi-asset system, Ingenuity eliminates the complexity of fragmented workflows—enabling clients to trade equities, futures, FX, and more with consistency, precision, and speed.
Founded by Karthik Teki and Pallav Chhaochhria, and guided by industry veterans including Naz Al-Khudairi, Ingenuity brings deep domain expertise to the forefront of trading innovation. The platform combines real-time analytics, AI-driven insights, and ultra-low-latency infrastructure to help institutional traders optimize execution and reduce costs. Ingenuity delivers a consistent experience for sales traders, PMs, and quants across asset classes, geographies, and trading styles—unlocking new levels of productivity and control.
About ThinkAlpha Technologies:
Founded by industry veterans, ThinkAlpha Technologies is a high-performance fintech platform purpose-built for transactional, analytical, and programmatic trading at scale. ThinkAlpha Technologies combines cutting-edge infrastructure with a commitment to innovation, delivering ultra-low-latency execution, real-time analytics, and robust risk services for institutional clients.
ThinkAlpha Technologies's proprietary technology stack features high-speed trading SDKs in C++ and Python, a next-generation market data infrastructure, and flexible APIs—all designed to support execution latencies under 50 microseconds. By colocating in NY4 and leveraging advanced programming techniques alongside direct market access, the platform delivers unmatched data throughput and lightning-fast trade execution. ThinkAlpha Technologies has also developed a powerful analytics engine that enables the creation of arbitrary queries into dynamic actionable trading insights, including using a natural language interface--bridging the gap between human language and high-speed algorithmic analysis
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June 9, 2026
Ingenuity Trading Enters New Growth Phase With Moneta Ventures Investment
Capital to Broaden Coverage Across Products and Markets, Deepen AI-Driven Intelligence, and Scale Institutional Distribution
NEW YORK, NY, June 9, 2026- Ingenuity Trading, an AI-native platform redefining how institutional traders move from research to execution, today announced the close of a $4.8M seed round, led by Moneta Ventures, with participation from strategic partner ThinkAlpha, alongside a group of early backers. Proceeds will fund the buildout of algorithmic strategies across new products and geographies, advance the firm’s intelligent automation capabilities, and support the development of strategic distribution partnerships.
Building Toward a Truly Multi-Market Platform
Since going live in 2025, Ingenuity has built a production-grade trading infrastructure covering U.S. equities and options, powered by ultra-low-latency execution and real-time workflow intelligence. With this new capital, the firm will extend its suite of algorithms — including Sweep, VWAP, TWAP, POV, and Liquidity Seeking — into futures, FX, and beyond, while opening access to clients and counterparties in new regions.
“We built Ingenuity to be the trading infrastructure of the next decade — AI-native, multi-asset, and purpose-built for institutional workflows,”
- said Karthik Teki, CEO of Ingenuity Trading
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“This raise lets us move faster on everything in our roadmap: broader product and geographic reach, smarter automation, and the partnerships that bring our platform to a wider universe of buy-side clients.”
Moneta Ventures Leads the Round, ThinkAlpha Joins as Strategic Partner
Moneta Ventures, known for backing transformative technology businesses, led the financing. ThinkAlpha joins as a strategic partner, providing the high-performance trading infrastructure and ultra-low-latency execution capabilities that underpin Ingenuity’s platform. Together, the investors reflect strong conviction in Ingenuity’s approach to modernizing electronic trading through an AI-first architecture and purpose-built execution stack.
“Ingenuity represents a new generation of trading technology — one that brings together high-performance execution and genuine machine intelligence in a single, cohesive platform,” - said Aasim Hasan, Managing Partner at Moneta Ventures.
“The team shipped a live, production system in its first year. We see Ingenuity becoming the platform of choice for sophisticated buy-side firms looking to modernize how they trade.”
Use of Proceeds
The funding will be deployed across three strategic priorities:
- Product and Geographic Breadth: Extend proven algorithmic strategies from equities and options into futures, FX, and other instruments, while opening access to clients and venues across new regions.
- Intelligent Automation: Deepen the platform’s AI capabilities — including intra-trade analytics, adaptive recommendations, and natural language-to-execution workflows — so traders can act on ideas with speed and precision that legacy systems cannot match.
- Distribution and Partnerships: Forge relationships with prime brokers, technology providers, and regional intermediaries to bring Ingenuity’s capabilities to a broader set of buy-side firms worldwide.
A Modern Alternative to Legacy Trading Infrastructure
Ingenuity enters this next phase as a credible challenger to the fragmented, decades-old systems that still underpin much of electronic trading. Its unified architecture — built AI-native from the outset, not retrofitted — delivers the execution performance of a specialist alongside the adaptability and intelligence of a modern software platform. With a live system already in production and a clear roadmap ahead, Ingenuity is positioned to serve the full scope of buy-side workflows with consistency and speed.
“We are just getting started,” - added Pallav Chhaochhria, President of Ingenuity Trading.
“The architecture we’ve built was designed from day one to scale across strategies, products, and markets. This capital gives us the runway to move decisively and put Ingenuity in front of a much wider client base.”
ThinkAlpha’s role as a strategic partner further strengthens Ingenuity’s execution foundation as the company expands beyond its initial markets.
“We see strong alignment between ThinkAlpha’s execution infrastructure and Ingenuity’s AI-native approach to institutional trading,” - said Gene Choe, COO of ThinkAlpha.
“Together, we can help clients access a more adaptive, efficient, and scalable trading experience without the limitations of fragmented legacy systems.”
Ingenuity was represented by Terrence Kerwin of Fox Rothschild LLP in connection with the financing transaction.
About Ingenuity Trading
Ingenuity Trading is a FinTech company redefining institutional execution through a next-generation platform powered by AI Agents and intelligent algorithmic strategies. Built from the ground up as a unified, multi-asset system, Ingenuity eliminates the complexity of fragmented workflows — enabling clients to trade equities, options, futures, FX, and more with consistency, precision, and speed.
Founded by Karthik Teki and Pallav Chhaochhria, and guided by industry veterans including Naz Al-Khudairi, Ingenuity brings deep domain expertise to the forefront of trading innovation. The platform combines real-time analytics, AI-driven insights, and ultra-low-latency infrastructure to help buy-side firms optimize execution and reduce costs. For more information, visit ingenuity.trading.
About Moneta Ventures
Moneta Ventures is a venture capital firm that partners with early-stage, high-growth enterprise technology companies across the U.S. Founded by serial entrepreneurs with a history of building and scaling successful technology businesses, Moneta pairs capital with hands-on operational support to help founders grow enduring companies. Since 2014, the firm has invested in more than 60 companies across emerging and underserved venture markets. For more information, visit moneta.vc.
About ThinkAlpha
Founded by industry veterans, ThinkAlpha is a high-performance fintech platform purpose-built for transactional, analytical, and programmatic trading at scale. ThinkAlpha combines cutting-edge infrastructure with a commitment to innovation, delivering ultra-low-latency execution, real-time analytics, and robust risk services for institutional clients. ThinkAlpha’s proprietary technology stack features high-speed trading SDKs in C++ and Python, a next-generation market data infrastructure, and flexible APIs — all designed to support execution latencies under 50 microseconds. By colocating in NY4 and leveraging advanced programming techniques alongside direct market access, the platform delivers unmatched data throughput and lightning-fast trade execution. For more information, visit thinkalpha.io.
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Ingenuity Trading
Karthik Teki
CEO, Ingenuity Trading Inc.
June 17, 2026
Dr. Paulo Zanjacomo Joins Ingenuity Trading to Power Next-Generation Quantitative Research
Elite Trading Firm Veteran Steps In to Advance Ingenuity’s AI Platform and Trading Analytics Capabilities
NEW YORK, NY, June 17, 2026- Ingenuity Trading, a fintech platform redefining electronic trade execution, announces that quantitative research leader Dr. Paulo Zanjacomo has joined as Head of Quantitative Research. Dr. Zanjacomo brings 27 years of quantitative research experience — more than 20 of them in financial markets — to Ingenuity’s Trading and AI platform. Working alongside Co-Founders Pallav Chhaochhria and Karthik Teki, he will lead the firm’s quant research function, driving the development of signals, algorithms, and models that power Ingenuity’s trading analytics and execution capabilities.
Dr. Zanjacomo has led quantitative research at some of the most respected trading firms in the United States, including Automated Trading Desk, (ATD, acquired by Citigroup), Sun Trading (integrated into Hudson River Trading), IMC Financial Markets, and Chicago Trading Company. Across these roles, he built simulation, statistical, optimization, and machine-learning systems for forecast generation and profitable trading in latency-sensitive environments, spanning equities, futures, FX, options, interest rates, and indices.
His expertise extends beyond financial markets. Earlier in his career, Dr. Zanjacomo developed mathematical models for energy forecasting, distribution, and risk management — experience that underpins his command of the energy asset classes central to Ingenuity’s multi-asset platform.
Dr. Zanjacomo holds a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where his passion for complex mathematical modeling and data exploration first took shape.
“Ingenuity has built something rare — a truly unified, multi-asset execution platform with the intelligence layer to match,”
- said Dr. Paulo Zanjacomo
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“I’m excited to bring rigorous quantitative research to bear on problems that matter to institutional traders every day.”
“Paulo is exactly the kind of world-class talent we’ve been building toward,”
- said Karthik Teki, Co-Founder and CEO
.
“His depth across high-frequency trading, latency-sensitive quant systems, and multi-asset modeling — built at some of the sharpest firms in the business — will accelerate everything we’re doing on the AI platform and trading analytics side.”
“Quantitative research is the engine behind what makes our AI platform genuinely differentiated,”
- said Pallav Chhaochhria, Co-Founder and President
.
“Paulo’s track record across AI, trading analytics, and latency-sensitive execution is precisely the caliber we’ve been building toward. We’re thrilled to have him on board.”
About Ingenuity Trading
Ingenuity Trading is a FinTech company redefining institutional execution through a next-generation platform powered by AI Agents and intelligent algorithmic strategies. Built from the ground up as a unified, multi-asset system, Ingenuity eliminates the complexity of fragmented workflows — enabling clients to trade equities, options, futures, FX, and more with consistency, precision, and speed.
Founded by Karthik Teki and Pallav Chhaochhria, and guided by industry veterans including Naz Al-Khudairi, Ingenuity brings deep domain expertise to the forefront of trading innovation. The platform combines real-time analytics, AI-driven insights, and ultra-low-latency infrastructure to help buy-side firms optimize execution and reduce costs. For more information, visit ingenuity.trading.
Media Contact:
Ingenuity Trading
Karthik Teki
CEO, Ingenuity Trading Inc.