M Science is a data-driven research and analytics firm, uncovering new insights for leading financial institutions and corporations. M Science is revolutionizing research, discovering new data sets and pioneering methodologies to provide actionable intelligence. Our research teams have decades of experience working with massive amounts of unstructured data in near real-time to discern critical insights that help clients make more informed decisions. We combine the best of finance, data and technology to create a truly unique value proposition for both financial services firms and major corporations in a variety of industries.
M Science is a portfolio company of Leucadia Investments, a division of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF). For more information, please visit www.mscience.com.

QuαntPORT is a process driven investment management group consisting of a team of researchers, traders and technologists who harness and apply the power of technology, data and automation to identify, model and trade global financial markets. QuαntPORT is a division of Jefferies Investment Advisers, LLC (“JIA”), a registered investment adviser. JIA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF).

Platform Partner:
From global investment banks, asset managers, and hedge funds to emerging fintech startups, Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps customers innovate, modernize, and transform. As a result, customers are able to expedite their go-to-market, drive efficiencies, and automate and strengthen security – all while lowering their costs by building in the cloud. BattleFin is a Technology Partner within the AWS Partner Network (APN), who has built the Ensemble Platform on AWS so trading firms and data science teams have access to the data they need and flexibility on how it’s processed, reviewed, and utilized. BattleFin is also working with Ticksmith, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner, to provide an instance of the TickVault platform. Together, we deliver data to customers that is used to empower predictive analytics, risk modeling, and business intelligence. For the Alt Data Combine contest, AWS is providing a sandbox environment utilizing Redshift to support fast, scalable data warehousing along with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Simple Storage Service. For more information about the underlying technology, please visit the APN Solution Space.