
Calculus Capital invests £2.5m in Essentia Analytics
Calculus Capital has invested £2.5m in Essentia Analytics, an analytics and consultancy firm for professional investors.
Calculus investment director Alexandra Lindsay has joined Essentia's board of directors.
Calculus has £169m in funds under management and predominantly invests from Enterprise Investment Scheme funds.
Company
With offices in London and New York, Essentia was founded by CEO Clare Flynn Levy, who formerly ran pension funds for Deutsche Asset Management and founded a hedge fund business. Its technology, which has a significant machine-learning component, looks at all of an investor's past trading decisions and identifies statistically significant patterns of behaviour that have impacted performance.
People
Calculus Capital – Alexandra Lindsay (investment director).
Essentia Analytics – Clare Flynn Levy (founder).
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