// ABOUT
Building the risk intelligence layer for institutional finance
ARKA Point was founded to solve a fundamental blind spot in institutional portfolio management: the inability to detect, quantify, and hedge emergent, non-linear risks before they manifest as P&L surprises. Traditional risk models handle known unknowns. ARKA handles the unknown unknowns.
We combine frontier AI research with deep domain expertise in quantitative finance to build infrastructure that makes portfolios resilient to risks that don't yet have names.
// WHAT WE BELIEVE
Core convictions
Risk is non-linear
Markets are complex adaptive systems. The next crisis won't look like the last one. We build tools that reason about emergence, not just history.
AI should augment, not replace
Our platform gives portfolio managers and risk officers superpowers, not pink slips. Human judgment + machine intelligence.
Transparency is non-negotiable
Every factor comes with a model card, audit trail, and Trust Score. If you can't explain it to your risk committee, it shouldn't be in your portfolio.
// TEAM
Built by practitioners
Our team combines experience from quantitative finance, AI research, and institutional technology.
Team Member
CEO & Co-Founder
Former portfolio manager with 15+ years in systematic strategies at top-tier hedge funds.
Team Member
CTO & Co-Founder
Ex-ML infrastructure lead at a major cloud provider. PhD in statistical learning theory.
Team Member
Head of Research
Published researcher in causal inference and financial econometrics. Previously at a leading quant firm.
Team Member
Head of Engineering
Built real-time data pipelines processing billions of events daily at scale. Ex-FAANG principal engineer.
// ADVISORS
Advisory board
Advisor
Former CRO, Global Investment Bank
Advisor
Professor of Financial Engineering, MIT
Advisor
GP, Enterprise AI Venture Fund
// MILESTONES
Company timeline
Founded
ARKA Point incorporated. Initial research on emergent risk detection using frontier LLMs and alternative data.
Factor Engine v1
First version of the agentic factor construction pipeline shipped. End-to-end from theme detection to factor scoring.
Design Partner Program Launch
Onboarded initial cohort of institutional design partners to validate workflows and integration patterns.
Institutional Beta
Full platform beta with portfolio integration, hedge generation, and Trust Score quality gates for institutional clients.