Boston FinTech Week: Quantopian's Forward Thinking Thesis

Quantopian is participating in Boston FinTech Week!

Quantopian's Forward Thinking Thesis: There is Quantitative Talent Everywhere

Talent is universally distributed across the globe while opportunity is not. At the same time, the demand for talent, quantitative talent in particular has dramatically increased across a wide range of business sectors. At Quantopian, we want to level the playing field through offering educational content, community, data, an intuitive algorithmic trading API, and hosted backtesting service, all fully online and all for free. Members from all backgrounds learn by researching and creating investment strategies. Members own what they create and get paid if their work turns out to be among the best.The result: more than 140,000 people from 180 countries have joined the Quantopian community, testing more than 7 million strategies and, in the process, are poised to disrupt the traditional hedge fund and investment management business model.

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About the Speaker

Dr. Jess Stauth

Dr. Jess Stauth is Quantopian's Managing Director on the Investment Team. Jess and her team are in charge of selecting the algorithms from the Quantopian community, for our portfolio. Quantopian offers license agreements for algorithms that fit our investment strategy, and the licensing authors are paid based on their strategy's individual performance.

Previously she has worked as an equity quant analyst at the StarMineCorporation and as a Director of Quant Product Strategy for Thomson Reuters prior to joining Quantopian in August of 2013. Jess holds a PhD from UC Berkeley in Biophysics.

About Quantopian

Quantopian is a crowd-sourced quantitative investment firm. We inspire talented people from around the world to write investment algorithms. Quantopian provides capital (https://www.quantopian.com/allocation), data (https://www.quantopian.com/data), a research environment (https://www.quantopian.com/research), and a development platform (https://www.quantopian.com/algorithms) to algorithm authors (quants). We offer license agreements for algorithms that fit our investment strategy, and the licensing authors are paid based on their strategy's individual performance. We provide everything a quant needs to create a strategy and profit from it. With over 130,000 members in more than 180 countries, that range from students to professionals, Quantopian’s community is continuing to grow every day.

For more information go to: https://www.quantopian.com/