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Delphia
Delphia is a Toronto-based fintech company and SEC-registered investment adviser that builds AI- and data-driven quantitative investment strategies. Originally spun out of Vox Pop Labs' predictive-modeling work, Delphia evolved from a retail robo-advisor using crowdsourced personal data into an institutional-grade quant equity manager, and now runs a hedge fund (Oracle Alpha) and related ventures (Tilt, the open-sourced ForecastOS/InvestOS backtesting framework) serving investors, policymakers, and data-rights advocates.
Toronto, CA
Description
Delphia began as Vox Pop Labs, a data-science venture founded in 2013 by Cliff van der Linden that forecasted real-world events such as elections. In 2018 Delphia spun out, joined Y Combinator, and adapted these predictive models to financial markets, later registering with the SEC as an Investment Adviser in 2019. The company built a market-neutral quantitative equity strategy, raised a $60M round in 2022 led by Multicoin Capital (with Ribbit Capital and Valor), and historically used personal/behavioral data from retail users in exchange for a robo-advisory data-reward token, though it shut this consumer product down in 2024 to refocus on professional investors. Delphia has since open-sourced its InvestOS portfolio backtesting framework and spun out ForecastOS as an independent venture, helped establish the Superset data trust, and now grows an institutional hedge fund (Oracle Alpha) alongside newer initiatives Tilt (trend-based investing for anyone) and the upcoming Backchannel (expert knowledge monetization). The organization also publishes commentary on AI and national policy and is involved in the AI Commons XPRIZE. Its clients/audience span U.S. tax-resident retail investors eligible for its advisory services, institutional and professional investors, policymakers, and data-rights advocates.Grant Funding
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$74M