{"id":105026,"title":"Ekpa: AI-Native Investment Platform for Everyday Traders","tagline":"Intelligent and Data-Backed Investment Decisions","body":"Hi all, \n\nWe’re Yuga and Anant. Yuga is a CS \u0026amp; Econ major at MIT with investment experience; Anant is CS \u0026amp; ChemE at MIT who has built agentic pipelines for drug discovery.\n\n**TL;DR:** With Ekpa, retail investors can create and improve their portfolio with tailored and strategic advice. Reach out if you are/know anyone who is into investing!\n\n**90 sec demo 👇**\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/COiuR4pUQpg?si=5paQyFViEIDjG1fc\u003e\n\n❌ The problem\n\nThere is a big gap between passive index-fund investors and wealthy people who have access to real hedge funds. Hedge funds have an army of people doing research and tracking and tracing every single piece of data. \n\nA retail investor with a full-time job and family does not have time to do all the research and make intelligent trading or investing decisions. \n\nAn everyday person lacks time, tools, expertise, and therefore confidence to make decisions that bring them closer to achieving financial freedom. \n\nTherefore, they miss out on the opportunity to build their wealth unlike the wealthy who continue to compound their wealth. \n\n**✅ The solution**\n\nWhat Ekpa enables:\n\n* **AI-Native Data Workflows** - agents that constantly keep up with the market trends, news, SEC filings, 10k, etc based on your portfolio.\n* **Research Systems**, based on your current portfolio and current interest. \n* **Discover New Investments** based on your risk-tolerance and future goals.\n* **Active Alert System**, so you don’t miss out on when the markets are moving while spending time doing the things you love. \n\nWith Ekpa, individuals build wealth regardless of experience. We’ve built AI trading systems that have outperformed the S\u0026amp;P500 over short time periods (over +1.5% returns in one week). \n\n**The ask**\n\nWe’re onboarding early customers and would love intros to anyone interested in trading\n\nFeel free to reach out directly to us at founders@goekpa.com. ","slug":"RJy-ekpa-ai-native-investment-platform-for-everyday-traders","created_at":"2026-07-09T15:29:01.604Z","updated_at":"2026-07-22T14:41:09.227Z","total_vote_count":15,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RJy-ekpa-ai-native-investment-platform-for-everyday-traders","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":31234,"name":"Ekpa","slug":"ekpa","url":"https://goekpa.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6e4cd183ffca48da0b8c0ac22b9a4a380bdecc65.png","batch":"Summer 2026","industry":"Fintech","tags":["Consumer Finance"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31234"}}