Kimpton AI
ActiveThe IDE for Investors
About
In investment management, the final outcome isn't a deck or a memo. It's the trade. Kimpton is the AI-native research platform for portfolio managers. We're commoditizing the research layer and handing PMs data distilled into structured trades. The whole industry is fighting underperformance. Active managers trail their benchmarks, and capital keeps bleeding into passive. AI was supposed to fix that, but it hasn't. Funds either stitch together a dozen point tools or babysit general agents all day, and neither gets them to the trade. Kimpton goes straight to it. It ingests a fund's mandate, strategy, and positions. It runs them through our own harness and returns a structured trade proposal built for that fund. It connects to any institutional data source they already run on. And it's built to disagree, because consensus is poison for investment decisions. Instead of telling a PM what they want to hear, it surfaces the breaches and risks they'd otherwise miss. We're two ex-Goldman engineers and an ex-SpaceX engineer. We left to start our own quantitative systematic hedge fund. We raised $10M from a family office at 21 and 22, and scaled it to $35M over four years. We built Kimpton inside that fund, then productized the stack. We're live with our first institutional client, a $3.3B manager, and our first market is fundamental equity funds from $1B to $10B. Humans make the decisions. Kimpton does everything else.
Founders
Jack Zumwalt· Founder/CEOCo-founder, CEO @ Kimpton AI (YC P26). Building the IDE for investors. Jack ran systematic strategies and managed daily operations of Level III Capital, a quantitative systematic trading firm he co-founded after raising $10M to seed the fund at the age of 22. Prior to that, he was a detection engineer at Goldman Sachs, writing algorithms to detect malicious threat actors who were trying to cyber attack the investment bank.
Adrian Del Bosque· FounderCo-founder, Founding Engineer @ Kimpton AI (YC P26). Building the IDE for investors. Adrian was a founding engineer at Level III Capital, a quantitative systematic trading firm, where he built the trading infrastructure. Prior to that, he was a Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer at Vistra, managing the cloud infrastructure behind the monitoring application for its 44,000 megawatt power generation fleet. He began his career at SpaceX as part of the Automation & Controls team.
Mauricio Ortiz· Founder/CTOCo-founder, CEO @ Kimpton AI (YC P26). Building the IDE for investors. Mauricio oversaw the entire technical implementation of the investment process, from research to trade execution, at Level III Capital, a quantitative systematic trading firm he co-founded after raising $10M to seed the fund at the age of 21. Prior to that, he was part of the critical infrastructure team at Goldman Sachs which handled systems for its consumer bank and the Apple Card.
Product launches · 1 launch
AI-native terminal where agents do the research and propose the trades
Change history · 18 recorded
- August 30, 2026
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- June 13, 2026
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- June 8, 2026
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- June 5, 2026
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- June 2, 2026
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- May 28, 2026
- New launch posted: Kimpton: Cursor for portfolio managers07:12 AM