Kumar Basu
Founder & CEO @ Quant+ | AI Researcher | 5× Founder (Ex-NeuroGene Lab) | Building Quantitative Infrastructure for Hedge Funds & Prop Desks
- Role
- Founding Engineer at Zenvia
- Location
- Kolkata, WB, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kumar Basu
4.7 Trillion in AUM. One Brain. Institutional finance is drowning in data but starving for reasoning. In 2026, the cost of manual analysis & the \"Time-to-Decision\" gap are the silent killer of alpha. At Quant+, we have collapsed that gap. As a 5× founder (Ex-NeuroGene Lab), I specialize in building \"Category Replacement\" technology & Quant+ is the Financial Operating System for the modern era, fusing quantitative precision with a proprietary 30B-parameter AI to move capital from \"Data Retrieval\" to \"Autonomous Reasoning\" at machine speed. We aren\'t just a vision; we are a proven global infrastructure. Currently trusted by institutional users across 30+ countries, Quant+ provides the analytical brain that hedge funds, family offices, and prop desks need to outperform. We have collapsed the fragile bridge of manual research. Our platform delivers analysis-grade intelligence in seconds, allowing funds to replace $500K/year analyst overhead with a scalable, zero-hallucination AI brain. The Quant+ Edge - 1. Market-Leading Adoption: Our core Backtesting Engine maintains a 91% adoption rate and is validated on 10+ years of data with a 0.6% error rate.2. Proprietary Institutional AI: A 30-billion parameter model trained exclusively on institutional datasets, delivering analysis-grade intelligence in under 60 seconds.3. Deterministic Control: A proprietary logic layer that eliminates AI hallucinations, ensuring auditable, risk-managed outputs for the world’s most sophisticated desks.The Impact -Quant+ is engineered to deliver a +42% target increase in risk-adjusted returns by automating the reasoning layer of institutional desks. We replace 3 days of manual analyst work with instant, actionable intelligence, allowing hedge funds, family offices, and prop trading firms managing $50M to $5B+ to scale without linear head-count costs. We are scaling the global footprint of Quant+ to capture the $83.1B AI-fintech market. We aren’t just offering a tool; we are defining the new standard for how the world’s elite trading desks manage risk and alpha. Quant+ is the definitive infrastructure finance needs right now, engineered for those who refuse to let the market move without the best possible reasoning. Core Expertise & Focus - Quantitative Finance Institutional Intelligence Systematic Trading AI-in-Fintech Hedge Fund Infrastructure Risk-Adjusted Returns Financial Modeling Alpha Generation High-Frequency Trading (HFT) Asset Management Fintech SaaS Enterprise Licensing API Infrastructure Decision Support Systems Capital Markets Deterministic AI
Experience
Founding Engineer
Oct 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US
Building AI-powered fintech solutions with Flutter, Java, and ML. Led development of intelligent expense tracking (94% accuracy), real-time financial insights dashboard, and AI-driven fraud detection systems.
Education
Harvard University
Probability
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Algorithms
Stanford University
Transformers For Natural Language Processing
Harvard University
Advanced Algorithms
Imperial College London
Mathematics For Machine Learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linear Algebra & Matrix Methods
Stanford University
Machine Learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Transformers: Theory, Architecture, and Applications
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Introduction To Deep Learning
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