KelAI (YC X26) — The AI Quant: autonomous alpha engine for funds and traders
Founded by former WorldQuant portfolio manager & head of event driven systematic strategies Jeremie Cohen, KelAI is building the autonomous alpha engine for hedge funds, traders and institutional investors. Investment teams now have more data, tools and compute than ever, but research still runs across siloed systems and inefficient workflows.
KelAI is a Y Combinator company in the Spring 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: The AI Quant: Autonomous Alpha Engine for Funds and Traders. The founder listed is Jeremie Cohen (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 18, 2026).
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What it does The AI Quant: Autonomous Alpha Engine for Funds and Traders (source)
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Founded by former WorldQuant portfolio manager & head of event driven systematic strategies Jeremie Cohen, KelAI is building the autonomous alpha engine for hedge funds, traders and institutional investors.
Investment teams now have more data, tools and compute than ever, but research still runs across siloed systems and inefficient workflows. KelAI turns that fragmented process into a compounding AI-native engine that continuously finds, tests and validates trading signals at a pace no human team can match.
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KelAI lists 3 open roles on its directory entry.
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KelAI is the AI alpha engine for hedge funds and institutional investors. Purpose-built AI that helps investment teams discover and validate new sources of alpha.
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Jeremie Cohen
Founder/CEO
Founder and CEO of KelAI. Managed a large global systematic equity book at WorldQuant and lead an ML team at Millennium Management. Nuclear engineer by training.
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