Causality Link

About Causality Link

Causality Link, established in 2016 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, operates an advanced AI-powered research platform for financial market intelligence. The company was co-founded by CEO Pierre Haren and CTO Eric Jensen. Haren, a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique with a PhD from MIT, previously founded the AI company ILOG in 1987, which he took public on Nasdaq and later sold to IBM in 2008. His extensive background includes serving as VP of Advanced Analytics and Cognitive at IBM, where he was involved with Watson technologies. Jensen, who holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Utah, has a background in leading R&D for cloud platforms and served as CTO at Truenorthlogic before co-founding Causality Link. The founders conceived of the company as a new way to apply AI, combining symbolic AI and machine learning to create a dynamic model of the world by aggregating knowledge from millions of authors in real-time.

The company's core business revolves around a cloud-based platform that utilizes Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning to analyze vast amounts of unstructured text from global sources. The system processes tens of thousands of documents daily in 27 languages from sources like news articles, financial reports, and trade publications to extract explicit cause-and-effect relationships. This technology is designed to go beyond simple correlation to uncover the underlying drivers of business and economic performance, answering not just "what" is happening in the markets, but "why". Its platform identifies and indexes events, variables, and relationships concerning markets, sectors, and equities, which helps clients reduce reading time and receive real-time updates for investment decisions. A significant milestone was a Series A funding round of $5 million in April 2020, led by the French family office HORIZON s.a., aimed at accelerating international operations and technological innovation.

Causality Link serves financial analysts, corporate executives, investors, and policymakers. Revenue is generated through subscriptions to its platform, which provides tools for granular signal analysis, cause-and-effect modeling, and real-time insights. The platform's features include visualizing trends through interactive graphs, creating causal models that show relationships between signals, and receiving customized forecasts. In 2023, the company integrated generative AI to summarize its findings, further streamlining the research workflow for its users. Strategic partnerships with companies like Bayesia, NewsEdge, and FactSet enhance its offerings, allowing for the creation of executable Bayesian Network Simulations from financial news and providing additional data and content.