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Predict how market participants behave

The best investments come from conviction, and conviction comes from understanding a market deeply: its customers, its competitors, and where it's heading. Today that understanding is slow and expensive to build. Reaching the right people takes weeks, a commercial study costs $300k+, and each one starts from scratch. LATO does this research end-to-end, combining public data and the fund's own knowledge with first-hand interviews of a market's consumers, experts, and operators. This research grounds a simulation of the market to predict how market participants behave.
Active Founders
Tymek Staniszewski
Tymek Staniszewski
Founder/CEO
Co-Founder at LATO - we predict how market participants behave Previously 6 years in private equity at Verdane ($11B AUM)
Tien Chu
Tien Chu
Founder/CTO
Co-Founder at LATO (S26), the agent-native research and simulation platform for investors. Previously ML and SWE across enterprise R&D, research labs, and early-stage startups. Studied CS, Math, and Philosophy at University of Warsaw.
Company Launches
LATO - Research any company or market in days
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This year alone, private equity deployed over $1 trillion. To get conviction on a deal, investors run commercial diligence - it costs c.$500k and takes weeks.

Our agents source and interview hundreds of experts in any language at scale.
They combine this expert knowledge with public and proprietary data to deliver fully traceable reports.

We already work with leading funds that push the frontier.

If you are spending too much time and capital on this - schedule a demo at: https://www.latolabs.io/book

We'd love to show you how the future looks.

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LATO
Founded:2026
Batch:Summer 2026
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Gustaf Alstromer