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Conviction

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Anyone Can Trade

S25·Summer 2025·Fintech·San Francisco, CA, USA·Team of 2·Founded 2025

About

Conviction lets you create and discover trading ideas, then monitors the market and acts on them for you. Start with any idea you have - or discover one from traders you follow on X or Reddit - and turn it into a strategy in natural language. Backtest it, paper trade it, deploy it and share what you learn.

Founders

  • Aria Vikram· Founder

    Co-founder & CEO @ Parachute. Previously NLP Researcher @ Columbia; deployed AI chatbots for doctors @ CUIMC. Google Code-In Grand Prize winner, RSI alum, and USAID awardee.

  • Tony Yamin· Co-Founder & CTO

    Co-Founder & CTO @ Parachute; turned down offers from Google and BlackRock. Previously built machine-learning infrastructure for the U.S. Department of Defense at Booz Allen. Best AI @ HackPrinceton and Finalist @ YaleHack.

Product launches · 1 launch

Change history · 10 recorded

  1. August 21, 2026
    • Description rewritten07:00 PM
    • Pitch updated07:00 PM
  2. August 20, 2026
    • Description rewritten07:00 PM
    • Website updated07:00 PM
    • Industry reclassified to Fintech07:00 PM
    • Location updated07:00 PM
    • Former names updated07:00 PM
    • Industries updated07:00 PM
    • Pitch updated07:00 PM
  3. July 18, 2026
    • Started hiring07:00 PM