Premind AI

What it was

Premind AI built a performant AI-driven trading signal and a bespoke AI agent for US equity traders. Six years of R&D, product, and business development across London and the global financial-markets community.

What we did

Led the venture through R&D, raising over €1M from senior industry practitioners and assembling a team of expert advisors. Secured support from non-dilutive accelerator programmes while protecting founders' equity. Built and shipped the underlying signal and agent that became the company's core IP.

Established Premind as a thought leader in AI in financial markets, securing speaking slots at Hedge Fund Managers, Future of Fund Technologies and other industry events despite being pre-revenue. Built strategic relationships with multi-national prop trading firms and global brokerages that set up the next stage of commercial growth.

What came next

I led Premind for six years and stepped away in early 2025. There are a lot of people to thank.

The accelerators who took us in when we were three slides and an idea. The cloud providers who fronted compute we couldn't have paid for at retail. The lawyers and bankers who quietly extended credit and patience. And the senior practitioners, the ones who'd seen enough cycles to know what they were betting on, who put their money and their names behind an outsider building AI for financial markets in 2019, when AI didn't yet mean what it now means.

I think about them often.

Notes from the field

Building deep-tech in financial markets at startup speed is mostly about credibility. The signal had to be right, the proof had to be repeatable, and the people in the room had to have the pedigree. Six years feels long until you remember that "AI for trading" was being said with quite different meaning in 2019.