Distill Analytics

Distill Analytics is an alternative financial data creator and vendor. We create remote psychometric assessments of corporate leaders, providing data for use in quantitative trading strategies. Our measures of decision-making styles and motivational drivers of corporate leadership teams from quarterly earnings call transcripts provides a leadership factor for use in quantitative trading strategies to lift model accuracy and allow more efficient allocation of analyst attention. Initial backtesting of a limited set of equities generated profitable long-positions 60% of the time by forecasting corporate leader’s behaviour. Distill's unique and easy to integrate data, with proven forecasting capability, helps innovative investment managers generate new investment strategies and improve the performance of analysts and models. Customers license API access to quarterly updates of corporate leadership scores supported by historical profiles. Coverage is across an expanding universe of public equities. The Company is led by experts in remote psychometric profiling. The founders have developed and adapted specific tools and algorithms to deliver the value of psychometric profiling to investment managers, building on experience from military and intelligence applications and academic research in forecasting. The Vancouver based team has bonafide scientific credentials, deep subject matter expertise, and a highly experienced technology lead. Distill Analytics is proud to included on the 2018 Emerging Rockets list and to be a part of the Fintech Sandbox community.