As part of our ongoing quest to get you meaningful and powerful stories from India and around the world, we invited yet another passionate women entrepreneur – Nina Tranquet for an exclusive interview with BrilliantRead Media. She is the Chief Operating Officer at NovaQ Capital. Let’s learn more about her astonishing journey, her background and her advice for our growing community!
Excerpts from our exclusive interview with Nina:
We are aware of your contribution to the ecosystem, talk us through your background and your journey as a women entrepreneur, please;
From a very young age, I was trying to look at problems from different perspectives and coming up with very interesting solutions. I enjoyed using mathematics to solve problems. I started schooling at UPEC and finished at MIT. My focus of learning was on AI, Machine Learning, marketing and business management.
Shortly after, I dove in the world of start-ups. I had hands-on evolving and help to scale up and running daily administrative and operational work. Since then I had moved to NYC where I am currently COO of NovaQ Capital.
You are always positive and motivated, what keeps you going?
I love my work. Anything you do in life you have to have a passion for and should not feel like work.
I enjoy the challenge of developing novel technologies to become a truly disruptive force in investing by leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
You are the COO of ‘NovaQ Capital’ such a unique name. Why NovaQ Capital?
Our name conveys the marriage between two concepts: Nova is the sudden appearance of a new star, Q represents quant, which describes the proprietary algorithms that power the firm’s investment process and capitalize on Machine Learning, advanced mathematics and artificial intelligence.
During this COVID-19 crisis, what are the measures you have undertaken to continue your business without disruption?
Thanks to software and cloud technology we are able to work remotely. We use technology like Zoom, Microsoft Meet now and Cisco Webex to communicate. We of course minimize how many people can be at the office at once. Our infrastructure is very good and we have measures in place to safeguard networks and information from damage or unauthorized access using cybersecurity.
What is your competitive edge at NovaQ Capital?
We leverage our expertise in statistics and data science on big unstructured datasets to discover market anomalies and efficiently monetize them in a risk-controlled fashion. We follow a scientific method to take investment decisions powered by sophisticated systematic infrastructure.
We are global in scale but diversified across regions, connected to all major markets with seamless connections. We are prepared to leverage any trading opportunity presented in any geography, sector, style or time horizon.
We hire the best talent and the brightest minds in science, computer scientists and mathematics and give them the freedom to invent, invest, model markets and generate alpha.
Our simulated results show attractive risk-adjusted alpha and high absolute returns, even in bear markets, beating all major global benchmarks.
How are you different from conventional funds?
Our fund will rely on differentiation and focus to set it apart from conventional funds who for one thing would rely mostly on traditional methods from an instinctual technique which aided by some data use to invest. By using A.I. machine learning and human intellect to analyze large amounts of data to be tested, this gives us an edge. We can algorithmically discover new knowledge in unstructured data. If you have a lot of data, machine learning can be an incredibly powerful tool.
Please share with us – what is your systematic infrastructure?
We use state-of-the-art cloud-based infrastructure that can handle large-scale machine learning and deep learning simulations on large unstructured datasets. We build audited systems, free from any data bias to build, test and simulate our investment hypothesis. We have seamless execution technology that reduces trading costs.
We would love to know your advice for all those starting out as an aspiring women entrepreneur?
Staying focused and being attentive. Don’t be discouraged by setbacks, that just part of life. Strive forward with confidence and caution. Believe in yourself.
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