From Studying Brains to Enabling Hedge Fund Innovation: How Neuroscience Built Neuralk AI [Source Code]

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The episode explores the journey of Alexandre Pasquiou and the innovation behind Neuralk AI in the fintech space.

Welcome to the first episode of SOURCE CODE. At Finovate, a leading Fintech conference “where you see the future of fintech first”, startups demo their solutions in seven minutes. This series is everything else - the human story behind the innovation. In every great story, there’s a hero on a quest and a guide who’s walked the path before. In b2b fintech, the customer is the hero. Today’s founder? They’re the guide. We’re going back to the origin - before the demo, before the product - to understand the journey that led here. We start with Alexandre Pasquiou from Neuralk AI, recorded at Finovate. Alexandre Pasquiou holds a degree from Centrale Paris and a PhD in computational neuroscience from Inria. He co-founded Neuralk: Bringing Frontier AI intelligence to your business with a foundation model that delivers instant predictions on structured data. Alexandre embodies The Pioneer archetype - driven by curiosity and innovation, he ventured into uncharted territory by translating transformer architecture to structured data where others said it couldn’t scale. Like all great pioneers, he’s optimistic about the future, brave enough to explore what others haven’t, and focused on…

People in this episode

Guest: Alexandre Pasquiou

Topics covered

• neuroscience
• fintech
• AI innovation
• entrepreneurship
• startups
• technology

Keywords

• neuroscience
• fintech
• AI
• startups
• innovation
• Centrale Paris
• Inria

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Organizations: Neuralk AI, Centrale Paris, Inria

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