How Forward Deployed Engineering is done Kepler
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AI for financial research and analysis
Kepler builds AI infrastructure for traceable financial analysis. Kepler for Finance lets investment banking and research teams ask questions in natural language, compare companies, examine debt structures, and export analysis to Excel and PowerPoint with figures linked to source filings. Users can customize calculation rules and workflows. Its broader Kepler Platform, intended to support other industries using their own data, remains forthcoming.
Founded in 2025 by CEO Vinoo Ganesh and CTO John McRaven, both formerly at Palantir, Kepler separates language interpretation from data retrieval and arithmetic. Its agent ontology maps financial terminology to defined metrics and formulas, routes tasks to specialized agents, and uses deterministic code for calculations with source provenance. The company, legally Keru AI Inc., rebranded as Kepler. In July 2026, Internet Forest Corporation sued over the name; Keru disputed infringement, and the scope of trademark rights it claimed through acquiring GetKepler.ai was contested.
In 2026, Kepler reported indexing 26 million-plus SEC filings, with earnings transcripts covering more than 14,000 companies and data spanning 27 global markets. This corpus supports research across filings, transcripts, and market data. By June 2026, Ganesh confirmed the company had raised more than $7 million, although it had not formally announced a funding round.
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