FINALIST outside of Japan

USA

Shizen software ensures capital allocation decision-makers can effectively model macro, climate, geopolitical, technology, and policy factors — and their interdependencies through issuer fundamentals. Shizen enables portfolio managers, quants, risk teams, and CIOs to integrate systemic dynamics into models that set limits and size positions, providing end-to-end infrastructure and multi-agentic AI to price risks and discover alpha before markets do.

Shizen is a financial technology and research company. We’re based in New York and Zürich.

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.