FINALIST outside of Japan

USA

Climate risk is the next subprime, risking Japanese and global financial systems. We build the infrastructure for institutions to price it before the market does.

Shizen is AI-powered risk infrastructure for systematic investing. We model how climate, macro, geopolitical, technology and policy shocks flow through issuer fundamentals into revenues, costs and default risk, then turn that into signals that plug into existing factor models, risk limits and portfolio construction. No ESG scores, no black-box dashboards – infrastructure quants can build on.

We’re in active pilot negotiations with institutions managing ~15 trillion USD in AUM across the US, UK and Switzerland.

Aadish is the founder and CEO of Shizen. Previously, he built equity research at Boston-based fintech Trefis, covering companies with a combined market value of ~$1 trillion, with his work syndicated to four of the top five US brokerages. He later led product for a social media management platform serving SMBs in Japan and the US. Prior to Shizen, he founded a decentralized sewage infrastructure venture at MIT D‑Lab. He started his career in India, founding an edtech company. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering. He was Innovation Fellow at MIT, where he also studied data and development economics.