Unique AI in New York: Building Secure AI for Hedge Funds

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by Michelle Heppler, CCO
Jun 10, 2026

New York has always set the pace of global finance where ideas move as fast as the markets and the next edge is never far away. It's also where the next chapter of Unique AI has begun. We've opened a New York office, moved founders into the city, and started hiring US talent to work side by side with the firms we serve. Here's what we're building, and why we're doing it from the ground in NY rather than from across an ocean.

 

Why New York?

 

We raised more than $30 million in Series A funding with a goal to launch and grow in New York City. Two of our three founders have relocated full time, and we're hiring US talent locally because deep enterprise AI adoption doesn't happen from afar. The firms setting the pace on AI are here, and now so are we.

 

What do we bring to the table?

 

Unique AI powers end-to-end processes for hedge fund professionals across every role. It's the secure orchestration layer that connects sensitive financial data, models, and agents across the front, middle, and back office.

That serves every seat on the investment team. Discretionary teams connect a licensed dataset, validate a thesis at the sector or single-ticker level, and generate insights and visualizations without writing code. Systematic teams plug in new datasets over MCP and run full validation — coverage, panel size, signal — before a strategy goes live. The result is faster evaluation, sharper insight, and stronger conviction, on a platform that stays governed, secure, and model-agnostic.

 

Showing up where the market is

 

Since arriving, we've been making the rounds across the US buy-side community. A few highlights:

  • We presented at BattleFin, putting our platform and investor use cases in front of the alt-data and hedge fund community.
  • We hosted a hedge fund dinner to have meaningful discussions with the HF teams about AI infrastructure.
  • During NY Tech Week, we hosted "Old World Roots, New World Growth," a wine tasting where we brought together investors & leaders from hedge funds, asset & wealth managers to answer one question "How is AI actually being adopted in financial services today?"
  • Next up, we'll be presenting at an upcoming CFA conference — more on that soon.

 

We're growing and hiring

 

Our New York team has scaled to eight, and we're adding several more roles as we build out our US presence. If you want to help the world's most ambitious financial firms build AI on a foundation that's actually theirs, we'd like to hear from you.

 

Watch the film on Unique AI in New York above  and get in touch to talk about what AI transformation could look like for your firm.