Crux Informatics Makes Data Ready For Action

The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards are a yearly showcase of the greatest advents in fintech from leaders and visionaries in the worlds of finance and technology. This year, we have executives, developers and innovators from the likes of Facebook, Amazon, IBM, JP Morgan, Zelle, TD Ameritrade, TradeStation, Fidelity, and so many more.

The BZ Awards is an oscar-like event to showcase the companies with the most impressive technology, who are paving the future in financial services and capital markets. In preparation for its biggest installment yet this May, we're profiling the companies who have moved to the final round of judging for the BZ Awards. In this feature we focus in on Crux Informatics.

What does your company do? What unique problem does it solve?

Crux is a global network where data is delightful. We help businesses realize the potential of

data now—without all the busy work. Our data engineers deliver action-ready data to

businesses via our cloud platform. So data works in harmony with businesses every day.

With Crux, companies can harness data without the high costs. By delivering action-ready data

through the cloud, we dramatically reduce the need for companies to build infrastructure to

manage and process data. We also eliminate the burdensome tasks which eat up 80% of data

teams’ time and energy—wrangling data to prepare it for analysis. We help people devote their

time and energy at work to finding insights and creating returns—the work that’s truly valuable.

Because the future of business depends on data. We’re making it delightful.

Who are your customers?

Our current customers are leading-edge financial services firms who derive valuable insights

from data. We collaborate with forward-thinking banks, insurers, asset managers, hedge funds,

and fixed income funds who seek to harness data more efficiently. By partnering with Crux, our

customers are reducing the costs of working with data and moving faster to finding insights that

differentiate them from competitors.

How long have you been in business?

We are a fast-growing startup. We’ve been in business since 2017.

Where are you located?

Our offices are in New York and San Francisco.

Who is your company’s leadership? What kind of experience do they have?

Our team brings together decades of leadership in financial services and analytics, deep

experience in data engineering, and a shared commitment to our clients’ success. We

understand the challenges that companies face in working with data, and we support our clients

through transformation. We combine our strengths in technology, strategy, and finance to

deliver services that can help bring people and businesses into the data-driven future.

Our Founder and CEO, Philip Brittan has over 30 years of experience creating data strategies

for leading financial companies. Philip has served as head of Google Finance, CTO and head of

platform for Thomson Reuters’ Financial and Risk Division, and head of Bloomberg’s Global FX

business. Philip has managed global teams of 6000+ members with multi-billion- dollar budgets

and revenues. As an entrepreneur, he has founded and managed several software startups. He

is an angel investor and advisor for technology startups as well.

Our President, Larry Leibowitz, has been building the technological systems to power financial

companies since the early 80’s, when he developed Morgan Stanley’s automated trading

software. During his career, he has built a tech-driven quantitative hedge fund acquired by

Charles Schwab, transformed Schwab Capital Markets using technology and analytics,

managed the integration of the business into UBS Investment Bank, and served as COO of

NYSE Euronext, where he redesigned the NYSE systems architecture and trading model.

Leading the Go-to- Market Team is Elizabeth Pritchard, whose experience spans two decades at

Goldman Sachs, where she led the global business of market data for the bank. At Goldman

Sachs, she identified strategic opportunities to integrate data, created and built partnerships

with data suppliers, and introduced new techniques for managing data. Before joining Crux, she

served as COO of Science at AIG, where she helped the insurer integrate data science across

the value chain and created a cloud-based analytics platform to help reduce costs.

Who are your investors, if any?

We are backed by a number of strategic investors, including Goldman Sachs and Citi.

Is there anything else Benzinga should know about your company?

We’re a new kind of business. We don’t buy or sell data. We just help it flow in a way that

enriches our partners. We’re transforming the information supply chain to help businesses

connect with the data they need, when and how they need it. We can help data vendors connect

with new clients, help portfolio managers and quants discover new datasets that can inform

stronger business decisions, and help Heads of IT distribute data more efficiently. By designing,

building, and operating data pipelines, we create a network that empowers businesses to

achieve meaningful movement forward.

To meet with the minds behind companies like Crux Informatics and others testing the cutting edge of fintech, grab a ticket to the Benzinga Global Fintech Awards May 15-16 in New York.

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