We started by trying to understand the planet.We ended up understanding how institutions think.
15Rock was founded in 2019 — years before generative AI entered the mainstream — with the belief that artificial intelligence could do real fundamental research. Not summarization. Not keyword matching. Actual analytical work: reading filings, modeling risk, understanding how a business operates and where it’s headed.
But along the way, we noticed something more interesting than the technology itself: the institutions we served — asset managers, private equity firms, sovereign funds — weren’t just interested in climate risk or ESG scoring. They were looking for a new kind of intelligence infrastructure. One that could sit alongside their investment teams and do the work that used to take weeks — across thousands of companies, in hours.
So we followed the problem.
We rebuilt our platform from the ground up — not as a dashboard, not as a chatbot, but as an AI-native research operating system. One that reads what analysts read, reasons the way they reason, and produces institutional-grade output across every stage of the investment lifecycle.
Judgment is the product.
Most AI companies sell automation. We sell judgment — the ability to look at a company, an asset, or a market and say something true. The institutions we serve don’t need more data. They need better interpretation. That’s the gap we close.
AI should do the work, not summarize it.
Summarizing a document is not research. We build systems that read filings, model risks, trace supply chains, and synthesize conclusions — the way a senior analyst would, but across thousands of companies simultaneously. If our AI can’t replace the workflow, we haven’t built enough.
Trust is earned at the output layer.
We don’t ask users to trust our models. We show them exactly what the AI found, where it found it, and how it reasoned. Every conclusion is traceable. Every score is explainable. Institutional clients don’t adopt black boxes — and neither should they.
We build for the hardest buyers in the world.
Our clients manage trillions. They’ve seen every pitch. They don’t care about demos — they care about whether the platform holds up in a real investment process, under real scrutiny, on real deadlines. That’s the bar we design to.
Backed by Those Reshaping the Industry
Backed by Google and strategic investors from the world’s largest asset owners — partners who chose 15Rock because they believe AI will fundamentally reshape how investment research is done.
Trusted by investment firms, advisors, and global enterprises
The People Behind 15Rock
We are a small, deliberate team of engineers, researchers, and former practitioners from the industries we serve. Our founding team includes veterans of global asset management, quantitative research, derivatives pricing, and enterprise-scale AI — people who’ve built and operated the systems we now aim to reinvent.
That experience shapes everything we build. It’s why our platform doesn’t feel like a tech product dropped into finance — it feels like something built by people who understand the weight of an investment decision.
Gautam Bakshi
CEO
Spent nearly two decades as a Managing Director at one of the world’s largest investment managers, leading risk, valuation, and technology initiatives. Drawing on his deep background in AI-based hedging and market-making strategies, he co-founded 15Rock to push the boundaries of data-driven decision-making.
Engineering & Technology
Priyansh Anand
CTO
Akhil Verghese
Senior Software Engineer
Mridul Nagpal
Data Scientist
Keshav Gupta
Software Engineer
Asad Malik
Software Engineer
Bazen Gashaw Teferra
AI Researcher (Ph.D.)
Mehul Arora
Software Engineer
Muhammad Sajjad
Risk Expert (Ph.D.)
Naman Gupta
Engineer
Parth Barthwal
Engineer
Divyajeet Singh
Engineer
Operations & Delivery
Sean Thomas
Operations & Delivery Head
Ahsan Riaz
Design Lead
Chaitali Bagai
Talent Scheduling & Junior Recruiter
Christine Lac
Senior Recruiter
Destinee Price
Recruiter
Himani Narang
Recruiter
Sales
Dean Ricci
Senior Director of Business Development
Claude Philippe Kamga
Director
Desiree Jacobson
Director
Nikki Hernandez
Director
The institutions we serve are entering a period of unprecedented complexity — geopolitical fragmentation, climate transition, regulatory acceleration, and the digitization of every asset class. The old tools weren’t built for this. The new ones — the ones being sold as “AI” — often aren’t either.
We’re building the platform that actually is. One that doesn’t just process information but understands context, weighs trade-offs, and delivers judgment at the speed and scale these institutions need.
The firms that figure this out first will define the next era of capital allocation.
We intend to be the reason they figure it out.
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