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Thomas Li was working at Point72, the hedge fund founded by notorious investor Steve Cohen, when he realized that the financial industry relies heavily on manual data entry processes that could be prone to errors. "As a buy-side analyst, I felt the pain of manually sourcing and entering data to build and update financial models," Li told TechCrunch. After meeting Jeremy Huang, a former software engineer at Airbnb and Meta, and Daniel Chen, an ex-Microsoft engineer, through New York University connections (all three are all alums), Li decided to try his hand at an automated solution to the data entry challenges.