42AI emerged from stealth on November 2, disclosing $62.5 million in seed backing that its founders and Infinity Group supplied over three years, TechCrunch reported. The startup builds models to help brokerages anticipate their clients’ trading decisions.
Infinity’s founder, Amir Gal-Or, also co-founded and chairs 42AI. He is the father of chief executive Amit Gal-Or, according to TechCrunch, which reported that the startup plans to raise more money.
On its website, 42AI markets forecasts of the asset a client will trade, whether they will buy or sell, and the order size, up to 24 hours ahead. Brokerages would use those forecasts to anticipate exposure and prepare hedges before customer orders arrive.
Amit Gal-Or told TechCrunch that 42AI was working with 10 large brokerages. The system uses existing records, including transactions and support calls, to build individual behavioral profiles. Customers pay a fixed fee or a share of the value the software helps generate.
Gal-Or qualified the company’s 98% accuracy claim: it measures whether trading flows fall within a forecast range, rather than whether each individual trade was correctly predicted. Chief technology officer Ehud Ezra told TechCrunch that missing context, such as advice from a colleague, can reduce accuracy.
A February 19 preprint co-authored by Ezra and linked from 42AI’s website tested a separate task: predicting participants’ responses to strategic dilemmas. It reported about 62% accuracy with 20 psychological traits as inputs. The authors cautioned that reported decisions may differ from real-world actions; the study did not test live brokerage forecasts.