Our Mission: Redefining Cash Alpha Strategies
ScaleUp revolutionizes surplus cash management with AI-driven, market-neutral solutions, offering higher returns with bond-like stability while championing sustainability, ethical investing, and responsible innovation. Co-founded by a former Goldman Sachs FX quant/PM, ScaleUp combines deep institutional expertise with advanced AI to deliver unparalleled precision, risk control, and performance for family offices, middle-market clients, and institutions.
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Driving Financial Excellence with Purpose
ScaleUp combines institutional expertise, cutting-edge AI, and a commitment to ESG principles, delivering uncorrelated returns with measurable sustainability impact. By leveraging energy-efficient AI, transparent reporting, and sustainable partnerships, ScaleUp bridges profitability and responsibility, offering transformative solutions for a better future.
Dual Performance Metrics
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Dual Performance Metrics
ScaleUp balances financial excellence with ESG impact. We deliver market-neutral, uncorrelated returns (Sharpe 6.1) while advancing sustainability initiatives like carbon offsets.
Uncorrelated Returns for Stability
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Uncorrelated Returns for Stability
ScaleUp’s AI-driven strategies generate consistent, uncorrelated returns independent of ESG trends, ensuring robust performance across market conditions.
ESG Innovation as Risk Mitigation
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ESG Innovation as Risk Mitigation
Our commitment to sustainability (e.g., energy-efficient AI models, ethical partnerships) reduces reputational and regulatory risks, protecting long-term value for investors.
Sustainable Partnerships
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Sustainable Partnerships
ScaleUp collaborates with NGOs, clean energy firms, and social enterprises to integrate sustainability into our business operations and growth strategy.
Innovation Meets Institutional Expertise
Co-founded by an ex-Goldman Sachs FX quant with deep expertise in ESG-aligned finance and AI/analytics experts, ScaleUp leverages institutional knowledge and MIT-collaborated AI technology to foster innovation and responsibility.
Our leadership team’s proven track record in sustainable and ethical investing has enabled us to build unique assets, relationships, and processes that deliver unparalleled value and drive superior, ESG-focused returns.
Prior 2018
Vision Born from Financial Expertise
ScaleUp was established in 2018 by a Goldman Sachs FX quant with deep expertise in market microstructure and a GenAI leader from Accenture/IBM. Together, they envisioned using generative AI and machine learning to disrupt traditional financial strategies and deliver stable, high-yield solutions for surplus cash management.
Key Achievements:
• Built proprietary AI/ML models to analyze market patterns.
• Formed partnerships with leading academic institutions, including MIT, to refine the technology stack.
2021 - 2022
Early Success in Market Microstructure
ScaleUp focused on exploiting market inefficiencies using its AI-powered platform. The integration of predictive analytics enabled the firm to create market-neutral strategies, providing uncorrelated returns for family offices and institutional investors.
2022 - 2024
Strategic Partnership Fuels Growth
In a pivotal move, ScaleUp entered a joint venture with a leading wholesale trading firm. This partnership enabled ScaleUp to leverage the firm's extensive customer base, significant transaction volume, and surplus cash flow. The collaboration strengthened ScaleUp's market presence and amplified its capacity to deliver value through its AI-driven cash alpha strategies.
Key achievements
• Increased Revenue Streams: Joint revenue-sharing boosted ScaleUp's CAGR to 53%, ensuring sustained growth.
• Transaction Volume Surge: Leveraged the firm’s existing operations to scale transaction volume to $2.4 billion.
2024
Harnessing Generative AI for Scale
ScaleUp embraced the rise of Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) to enhance its trading capabilities and decision-making processes. By incorporating GenAI into its platform, ScaleUp improved real-time analytics, streamlined operations, and explored autonomous trading possibilities.
Key Innovations:
• Predictive Analytics: Enhanced forecasting accuracy by integrating text-based news, financial data, and market signals.
• Autonomous Trading Agents: Enabled real-time trading decisions using self-learning AI models.
Future Vision
Overcoming Challenges and Scaling Up
Looking ahead, ScaleUp aims to tackle the challenges of large language models (LLMs), such as hallucinations and interpretability. The company is investing in hybrid AI frameworks combining GenAI with robust traditional algorithms to ensure reliability and compliance. ScaleUp’s future direction includes global expansion, deeper market penetration, and continued innovation to maintain leadership in cash alpha solutions.
Customer Success Stories
ScaleUp leverages AI-driven market microstructure analysis and autonomous agents, AI systems designed to operate without constant human oversight, to identify inefficiencies and execute market-neutral strategies. This ensures consistent returns with low volatility, near-zero drawdowns, and high risk-adjusted performance.
Trusted by Leading Institutions Globally
Empowering Surplus Cash with AI-Driven Returns
Our Position in the Fintech Landscape
A 2x2 matrix highlights ScaleUp’s unique positioning based on Target Market (Retail vs. Institutional) and Risk-Return Strategy (Directional vs. Market-Neutral), emphasizing our focus on institutional clients with non-correlated, market-neutral solutions, as follows:
Market-Neutral, Institutional Focus: ScaleUp
Focuses on AI-powered, market-neutral forex arbitrage strategies for institutional-grade cash optimization, a niche with little competition.
Directional, Institutional Focus
Serve institutions but primarily with directional, market-exposed products.
Market-Neutral, Retail Focus
Offer automated or ESG robo-advisory tools targeting retail portfolios.
Directional, Retail Focus
Target retail clients with diversified or trading-focused portfolios.
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Rewarding Partnerships Built on Trust
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Join a Team Defining the Future of AI-Driven Investments
We’re looking for innovators and disruptors to build the next generation of financial solutions.
Drive ScaleUp's growth by identifying, negotiating, and managing high-value partnerships. Leverage industry insights to build alliances in fintech, AI, and cash management. Requires strategic vision, relationship management expertise, and proven deal execution skills.
Join our R&D team to develop advanced trading algorithms using alternative data and machine learning models. You will collaborate with MIT and industry experts to enhance our cash alpha models and address challenges in LLM interpretability and scalability.