AI Platform Conglomerate · Series A

Building the AI layer
across every
industry on Earth

Zaelestis Group is an AI platform conglomerate developing institutional-grade AI platforms across trading, healthcare, legal, insurance, real estate, agriculture, and beyond — built on a proprietary engine that compresses platform development from years to weeks.

20+
PLATFORMS
12+
INDUSTRIES
20+
Platforms
$15–21M
MTI / Tradaro Valuation
12+
Industries
120+
Combined Years Experience

AI platforms across
12+ industries.

Zaelestis Group develops institutional-grade AI platforms across a broad range of industries — each opportunity identified through proprietary intelligence infrastructure and built on a proven common architecture.

Financial Services
Trading, Wealth & Capital Markets
Institutional and retail-grade AI across quantitative trading, wealth management, alternative lending, and investment decision-making.
Financial Services
Accounting, Tax & Financial Operations
AI-driven automation of bookkeeping, tax preparation, financial reporting, and compliance for businesses of all sizes.
Insurance
Underwriting & Risk Intelligence
AI-native actuarial modeling, dynamic underwriting, and claims intelligence across property, casualty, cyber, and specialty lines.
Healthcare
Clinical AI & Healthcare Operations
AI across medical billing, clinical documentation, prior authorization, pharmaceutical research, and trial management.
Legal
Legal Technology
AI contract review, legal research, case management, and workflow automation for law firms and legal departments.
Real Estate & Construction
Property, Development & AEC
AI market intelligence, deal sourcing, project risk, bid estimation, and portfolio optimization across real estate and construction.
Supply Chain & Logistics
Supply Chain, Freight & Procurement
AI demand forecasting, supplier risk, inventory optimization, load matching, and real-time logistics intelligence.
Agriculture
Precision Agriculture
AI-driven crop intelligence, yield prediction, pest detection, and commodity market timing for farmers and cooperatives.
Consumer & Social
Social Media & Creator Economy
AI-native platforms spanning audio and visual social, creator monetization, and personalized content experiences.
Wellness & Care
Wellness, Mental Health & Elder Care
Deeply personalized AI platforms delivering guidance across emotional health, spirituality, somatic practice, and companion care for seniors.
Human Capital
Talent, HR & Corporate Learning
AI talent matching, skills intelligence, async screening, adaptive learning paths, and organizational development tools.
Intelligence Infrastructure
Market & Competitive Intelligence
Proprietary intelligence infrastructure continuously monitoring adoption gaps across industries and geographies — identifying high-value opportunities before they are priced in.

Matrix spawns
everything.

Matrix is Zaelestis Group's proprietary global AI adoption gap intelligence platform. It continuously maps the delta between economic activity and AI penetration across industries and geographies — surfacing high-value opportunities before they are priced in by the broader market.

80+
Nations continuously monitored across multiple intelligence signal streams
12+
Industries identified and entered through intelligence-driven opportunity signals
NSGA-II
Pareto optimization scoring market gap, capital density, and build feasibility

MTI / Tradaro

The institutional-grade quantitative trading platform that started it all — and the AI/ML engine that powers every Zaelestis vertical.

Market Trading Intelligence
— 30 Modules. Zero Compromises.

Competing directly with Bloomberg Terminal, ThinkOrSwim, and TradingView — with an AI/ML layer none of them have. Every feature is production-grade, every line is deployable. Built by a Cambridge-educated quantitative architect with 15+ years of institutional markets experience.

666+
Technical Indicators
2,438
Options Models
5.47M+
Python Lines
30
AI/ML Modules
30
Languages (i18n)
FIX 5.0
SP2 Protocol
$15–21M
Current Valuation
3
Brokers Integrated
Alpaca · IBKR · QuantConnect

120+ years of institutional expertise.

Goldman Sachs · Morgan Stanley · Merrill Lynch · BofA · Citadel · AlphaQuest — combined across our leadership and advisory board.

Founders
James L. Zhang
James L. Zhang
Co-Founder & CEO
Cambridge-trained mathematician (BA+MA). 16+ years investment management. SEC/FINRA licensed securities trader (Series 57). AI/Deep Learning architect with deep expertise in quantitative modeling, options analytics, and ML. Career began at AIG managing credit and market risk models for a $183B portfolio. Built and scaled a multi-platform AI conglomerate spanning 12+ industries and the Matrix intelligence engine that drives it.
Bill Hajjar
Bill Hajjar
Co-Founder & CRO
15+ years SaaS technology and enterprise sales. Built $10M+ TCV through high-performance teams. Achieved 1000% revenue expansion over three years through C-level outreach, contract negotiations, and pipeline optimization. 5 startup exits over 20 years spanning telecom, digital advertising, media, and sports technology industries.
Core Team
Ann-Sophie Hahn
Ann-Sophie Hahn
Chief AI & Innovation Officer
PhD researcher in Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work at Nova School of Business and Economics — one of Europe's leading institutions for AI strategy and organizational transformation. Academic background spanning AI systems, business innovation, and the intersection of emerging technology with enterprise operations. FCT Scholarship and Fellowship for Excellence recipient. Bridges rigorous AI research with practical deployment strategy across Zaelestis's platform portfolio.
Thomas Wang
Thomas Wang
Machine Learning & Software Engineering
Computer scientist with extensive engineering experience building high-performance AI systems, full-stack applications, and real-time analytics platforms. Strong background in model optimization and production-grade software development. Committed to delivering reliable, scalable solutions and driving innovation through rigorous engineering practice — staying at the forefront of applied machine learning technologies.
Tony Wang
Tony Wang
Data Science & Applied Machine Learning
Data scientist and software engineer focused on building rigorous, experiment-driven models and robust analytics pipelines. Experience spans epidemic intervention modeling, deep learning-based image restoration, and data-driven prediction of physical systems — complemented by solid software engineering in Python and modern ML frameworks. Committed to reproducible research, high-quality code, and turning complex real-world problems into scalable data-centered solutions.
Jacky Chen
Jacky Chen
Senior Analyst & Algo Trader
Financial analyst and algo trader who transplants cybersecurity expertise into trading systems — specializing in options and futures markets. Translates professional and retail trader behavior into fully automated trading bots that reflect the crowd psychology of global financial markets.
Katrina Rodkina
Katrina Rodkina
Frontend Developer & Technology Specialist
Full Stack Web Developer specializing in JavaScript and the PERN stack (PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js). Agile methodology with extensive multi-continental teamwork. Relentlessly focused on application optimization in execution speed and scalability across multidisciplinary projects.
Advisory Board
Combined 100+ years at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, BofA, Citadel, AlphaQuest  ·  Harvard · Yale · Cambridge
Andrew Banhidi
Andrew Banhidi
Technology Advisor
30 years experience with CTO roles at Instinet, FxAll, Merrill Lynch, and Bank of America — with development roles at Goldman Sachs. Deep expertise managing critical systems in analytics, trading, and settlement across equities, sales, research, and capital markets.
John Neary
John Neary
Trading & Risk Advisor
AlphaQuest President ($2B AUM). Founding Principal, 3000Kings LLC. COO of Fundamental Strategies + Global Credit at Citadel. Head of Equities Trading at Morgan Stanley. 15+ years at Goldman Sachs. Harvard MBA / Yale BA.
Elias Diamantis
Elias Diamantis
Product Advisor
20+ years equity product development. Senior Advisor / Board Advisor to VeloxAI. MD at Deutsche Bank / Merrill Lynch. Executive Director at Morgan Stanley & BofA. Founder, Arcadian Consulting LLC — specializing in technology transformation across institutional trading.

Join us in building
the next frontier.

Zaelestis Group is actively raising its Series A to accelerate platform development across the portfolio, expand the Matrix intelligence network, and complete the MTI/Tradaro launch.

Diversified Platform Portfolio A growing portfolio of institutional-grade AI platforms spanning 12+ industries — each identified through our proprietary intelligence infrastructure and built on a proven common architecture.
Proven Transplant Model Institutional AI/ML engines built for MTI/Tradaro are repointed at new verticals — compressing platform development from years to weeks, dramatically reducing build risk.
Institutional Pedigree Led by a Cambridge-educated quant architect with AIG institutional background, Columbia Statistics, and 15+ years of financial markets experience. Not a first-time founder.
Matrix Competitive Moat Proprietary global AI adoption gap intelligence system. Identifies and validates each new vertical before a line of code is written. Self-reinforcing intelligence advantage.
Raising
$15–25M
Series A Round
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Let's build
together.

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Phone
(+1) 212-220-6046
Address
One World Trade Center, Suite 8500
New York, NY 10007