LinqAlpha, an AI-native platform for institutional investment research, has raised US$22 million in Series A funding in a round anchored by AVP, Atinum Investment and GFT Ventures.

The New York-headquartered company builds what it calls an Alpha Intelligence Layer for global public markets — AI agents that learn an investment team’s own research framework rather than offering generic model output. Founded by Jacob Choi, Subeen Pang, Jin Kim and Hojun Choi, a team drawn from Goldman Sachs and MIT computer science backgrounds, the platform is already used by more than 70 financial institutions across the US, Europe and Asia.

Clients span sell-side sales, trading and research desks at major investment banks as well as buy-side firms including Causeway Capital Management and Schonfeld Strategic Advisors. Collectively, LinqAlpha’s buy-side clients manage more than US$5 trillion in assets.

Moving beyond faster retrieval

LinqAlpha frames its pitch as a shift from speed to judgment. Public market signals now move across supply chains, policy, social media, earnings and credit markets within hours of each other, leaving analysts needing to synthesise volume rather than simply access it faster.

“The first wave of AI in finance made analysts faster. The next wave changes what they can know,” said Hojun Choi, co-founder and co-CEO of LinqAlpha. “The edge no longer comes from retrieving information; it comes from systems that surface market-moving signals before they are priced in.”

Co-founder and co-CEO Jacob Choi described the product as a “second brain” for investment teams, with agents that reason against a team’s own thesis history and adapt to its feedback and market view, rather than returning a generic model’s average answer.

Investor base draws on Asian syndicate

Alongside AVP, Atinum Investment and GFT Ventures, the round was oversubscribed with participation from strategic financial institutions and venture platforms across Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and India.

Manish Agarwal, General Partner at AVP, said most AI tools in finance focus on faster retrieval or automating repetitive work, while LinqAlpha is targeting differentiated insight discovery in markets that reward speed, context and proprietary judgment.

LinqAlpha said the new capital will fund expansion of its global team, deeper integration across market and alternative datasets, and faster rollout of its multi-agent platform across equities, macro, credit and multi-asset strategies.