Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a Series A at a $500M valuation (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-deepmind-trio-who-built-a-poker-ai-are-now-making-money-for-quant-hedge-funds/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260704/i2.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260704/p2#a260704p2" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Anna Heim / <a href="http://techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-deepmind-trio-who-built-a-poker-ai-are-now-making-money-for-quant-hedge-funds/">Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a Series A at a $500M valuation</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Three former DeepMind researchers who created an AI that beat humans at poker have now applied the same technology to trading stocks &mdash; and the bet appears to be paying off.</p>