About Us

We are a German-based data analytics company, setting new levels in quantitative data processing using Artificial Intelligence. Our mission is to improve and support data-driven decision making for a broad range of market participants by analyzing and deploying alternative data from social media. Stockpulse has huge amounts of data collected from many thousands of sources in dozens of languages. In the age of LLMs, this historical data is one of the biggest assets of the company.

Stockpulse’s AI is the next level of comprehending and processing social media data, powered by deep learning and proprietary large language models. With the expertise of more than 20 years in data science and machine learning, we provide first-class solutions for customized data delivery.

Founders & Managing Directors

Dr. Stefan Nann

CEO of Stockpulse

Stefan is the CEO of Stockpulse. Running the day to day business affairs and pursuing the company’s development strategy, Stefan heaved Stockpulse on the radar screen of institutional investors. Demonstrating his ability to explain complex technical issues with a vision of tailoring customized customer solutions. Persistent and persuasive to present innovative quantitative investment opportunities, he has been able to illustrate versatile applications of Emotional Data Intelligence to the financial industry. He is always seeking to improve internal processes to meet our clients’ demands.

Stefan has a Ph.D. in Economic and Social Sciences from the University of Cologne. As part of his Ph.D. program he studied at MIT in Boston for 18 months together with Jonas. Before that Stefan obtained a master’s degree in information systems from the University of Cologne. In 2011 he co-founded Stockpulse together with Jonas.

Jonas Krauß

CTO of Stockpulse

Jonas is the CTO of Stockpulse. He leads the technological strategy of the company. Evaluating the database, real-time processing, managing ever-accelerating quantitative data, optimizing data delivery via our various API endpoints, and supervising security issues along the entire value chain. In short, an outspoken expert with over a decade of applied and technical experience in software engineering. Jonas embodies the creativity in designing sophisticated and entangled algorithms, incorporating various AI methods, allowing Stockpulse to explore entirely new spheres of data analytics.

Jonas has a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Cologne. As part of his Ph.D. program, he has been at MIT for an extensive 18-months research study before he became the co-founder of Stockpulse.

History of Company

The core idea of Stockpulse results from extensive research of the two co-founders Jonas and Stefan related to their Master and Ph.D. studies at the University of Cologne and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During their work, Jonas and Stefan developed an in-depth comprehension of the potential of Emotional Data Intelligence for financial markets. Parts of their research have been published on international meetings and seminars, globally well-known conferences, and various books.

At that time, in 2010 and 2011, however, emotional data analysis and big data were uncommonly known, and no market existed. Market participants did not yet see the value of the data for the financial industry.

Throughout the years, as Social Media progressed to over three billion users in 2020, Stefan and Jonas have been convinced Emotional Data Intelligence would prevail. Being pioneers and trailblazers at one stage, Stockpulse has become an essential player for the financial industry. Whether it’s some banks or hedge funds, private equity, venture capital or family office, portfolio managers or insurance companies, publishing houses, or stock exchanges, and institutional supervising agencies. All rely upon Emotional Data Intelligence today.

By 2023, the estimated number of online Social Media participants is crossing 4bn daily active users and remains one of the fastest-growing market segments worldwide. The daily squawk volume and monitoring the social media landscape will become even more critical to those who manage wealth successfully, and by the way, Stockpulse’s first message collectors are running 24/7 since 2010 without a stop!

Voices of Clients and Partners

I have known Stockpulse for a long time and have been accompanying the development of Jonas and Stefan, the two founders, for more than 10 years. Stockpulse makes real pioneering work in the field of sentiment analysis for financial markets. Our scientific cooperation is still very close. I am particularly pleased that Stefan’s successful Ph.D. gives us great confirmation of our joint research work.

Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder, Managing Director Cologne Institute for Information Systems (CIIS)
University of Cologne

A high-tech company like Stockpulse would actually be located in Silicon Valley. However, the company has always had its roots and headquarters in Germany. It convinced from the start with original German properties, which one sometimes looks with a little jealousy from the valley: rock-solid, reliable, inventive, and always open to experiments in new business areas such as in Big Data technologies.

Thomas Rappold, Managing Director & Venture Capital Investor Silicon Valley silicon-valley.de
I&S Internet & Security Consulting GmbH

Timeline

2011 – 2012

  • The founding of Stockpulse (2011)
  • Entrepreneurship scholarship of the German government to build up the company (EXIST program)
  • Institutional investor and private business angels take a share in Stockpulse
  • B2C focus, building web-based dashboard and selling data to private investors

2013 – 2017

  • Changing focus to B2B, extend technologies (crawlers, databases, technical infrastructure, etc.)
  • Gained first institutional clients. Improved technology and scaling infrastructure to meet growing data
  • Increased and strengthened customer basis, broader offering for different financial areas, e.g., publishers and private equity

2017 – 2018

  • Establishing Emotional Data Intelligence for Stockpulse as its key issue
  • Launching AI content for financial publishers
  • Successful trading strategies for several years in a real-money track record
  • Biggest continental European stock exchange to use our data in trading surveillance

2019 – 2020

  • Launching index certificates with Emotional Data Intelligence outperforming underlying benchmarks exceptionally.
  • Biggest international technology stock exchange worldwide using Stockpulse’s Emotional Data Intelligence for trading surveillance.
  • Registered member of the Bundesverband Alternative Investments (BAI)

2021 – 2024

  • Extending our expertise and improving our processes of social media analysis for trading surveillance and regulatory monitoring.
  • Working with some of the largest stock exchanges and financial market regulators in the world to improve market surveillance.
  • Using LLMs and AI to improve internal processes and make our work more effective and efficient.