Summary
Grant Stenger is a founder and CEO with over a decade of experience spanning quantitative research, AI, and product development. He founded Kinetic in 2022 in New York, where he has led the company to raise $7.2 million from a diverse roster of marquee investors including Jump, Sequoia, SV Angel, Contrary, GBV, K5, dao5, Soma, BoxGroup, and Lux. His career includes quant trading at Jane Street, quant research at Polychain Capital, and AI research at Midjourney (building tools for thought), complemented by roles at Numerai and QuantRes. He has also shared knowledge as founder/instructor at the Silicon Valley Design Thinking Institute and as a fellow/venture partner at Contrary, blending research rigor with startup-building and education. A USC BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science anchors his technical depth, giving him a rare mix of math, machine learning, and hands-on product leadership in New York.
13 years of coding experience