About ForeStrat

Institutional infrastructure for investment operations

  • Portfolio managers Custom datasets, feeds, and execution
  • Capital allocators Scale PMs without scaling ops drag
  • Boutique banks TCA, T+0 ops, and research platforms
  • Middle office Live IBOR, recon, and risk in the flow

Built by systems and trading veterans from Morgan Stanley, UBS, Schonfeld, and the ForeSeer team acquired by S&P Global.

Our mission

Your world class performance powered by our turnkey solutions

Deployed infrastructure so investment teams can focus on alpha, strategy, and clients.

Purpose

  • Institutional infrastructure for investment operations
  • Teams focus on performance, not plumbing

How we deliver

  • FinSight, DataStrat, TradeStrat, and MatchStrat
  • Deployed in your environment, production-ready in days

Ownership

  • You own the stack; no volume-based SaaS lock-in
  • Manager-side control without replacing your administrator

What stays with you

  • Official books and investor services with your admin
  • Clean data, trade, and ops as you scale

The founders

ForeStrat was built by engineers with deep backgrounds in trading operations and quantitative research systems. Having designed and scaled mission-critical pipelines for leading investment firms, we built the products we wished existed.

Anand Chavan
Co-founder · CEO

Anand Chavan

Anand Chavan is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience in fintech, hedge funds, investment banking, and software consulting. He specializes in AI-powered data systems, large-scale information extraction, and operational excellence.

Anand founded Foreseer, a generative AI platform for data management, which was acquired by S&P Global in 2022. He has led major initiatives at UBS, JP Morgan, and Amaranth, optimizing trading infrastructure and building real-time financial systems. Anand is passionate about solving complex problems at the intersection of AI and finance, promoting lean, collaborative teams that drive innovation, automation, and data-driven decision-making at scale.

Jacob Kaippallimalil
Co-founder · CPO

Jacob Kaippallimalil

Jacob Kaippallimalil is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in financial services technology. He specializes in quantitative research, data architecture, and systematic trading infrastructure.

Throughout his career, he has held senior leadership roles, including serving as a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and UBS. He has extensive experience running multi-billion dollar desks and building electronic trading infrastructure.

Notably, he scaled the systematic trading platform at Schonfeld across 25+ portfolio manager teams, managing platforms at institutions with hundreds of billions in capital.

The team

Global talent, institutional craft

A distributed team of AI engineers, developers, and operations specialists across the US and India, shipping production systems for investment operations every week.

Who we are

  • AI engineers building extraction, agents, and Quality Checks
  • Developers shipping high impact products leveraging the best in class technology
  • Operations specialists who have run desks and recon books

Where we work

  • United States and India, one product culture
  • Follow-the-sun coverage for global markets and client ops
  • Founder-led delivery with lean, high-ownership teams

What you get to build

  • Infrastructure that PMs, allocators, and banks run in production
  • Hard problems at the intersection of AI and capital markets
  • Impact without bureaucracy or nine-figure program drag

We're hiring

  • Always looking for the best in financial services technology
  • If you have shipped real trading, data, or ops systems, we want to talk
Reach out about careers

Book a demo

Reach out to see DataStrat, TradeStrat, and MatchStrat in your environment.

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