Numerai Signals
Numerai is a crowdsourced AI hedge fund — data scientists submit predictive signals + are paid in NMR (cryptocurrency) based on signal performance. Numerai Signals is the global-equities tournament. Founded 2015 by Richard Craib. ~$200M AUM reported.
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At a glance
- Type
- Crowdsourced AI signals hedge-fund platform vendor fix
- Tier
- T3
- Created
- 2015 (founded); Signals 2019 vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- Funding
- Numerai: $30M Series C Nov-2025 ($500M val; led by university endowments; USV, Shine Capital, Paul Tudor Jones participated) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: crowdsourced AI predictive signals for global equities
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Unique crowdsourced/token-incentive model; long-running; differentiated from agent-platform peers.
Cons
Niche model; token-incentive complications; AUM small vs traditional hedge funds; not strictly an 'agent platform' but qualifies as use-case-specific AI in finance.
Claims & capabilities
Numerai founded 2015 (Richard Craib); >$200M AUM; thousands of data-scientist participants; NMR token incentive structure
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- not applicable — wrong section
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- yes — Numerai API and MCP for agentic research pipelines (API keys with scopes)
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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Sources (18 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Crowdsourced AI signals hedge-fund platform vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Numerai is a crowdsourced AI hedge fund — data scientists submit predictive signals + ar… vendor
- Claims / benefits Numerai founded 2015 (Richard Craib); >$200M AUM; thousands of data-scientist participan… vendor
- Created 2015 (founded); Signals 2019 vendor
- Funding Numerai: $30M Series C Nov-2025 ($500M val; led by university endowments; USV, Shine Cap… vendor
- Customers / scale Data-scientist contributors + the hedge fund itself vendor
- Compliance US RIA vendor
- HQ San Francisco vendor
- Founders / pedigree Richard Craib (CEO) vendor
- MCP support yes — Numerai API and MCP for agentic research pipelines (API keys with scopes) vendor
- Optimised for crowdsourced AI predictive signals for global equities vendor
- Pros Unique crowdsourced/token-incentive model; long-running; differentiated from agent-platf… vendor
- Cons Niche model; token-incentive complications; AUM small vs traditional hedge funds; not st… vendor
- Project & sources signals.numer.ai/ vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- sdk-languages python vendor
What changed
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- 2026-10-28
- Funding / ownership “Numerai: $11M Series A 2017 (USV + Coatue); NMR token issuance” → “Numerai: $30M Series C Nov-2025 ($500M val; led by university endowments; USV, Shine Capital, Paul Tudor Jones participated)” source
- MCP support “not applicable — wrong section” → “yes — Numerai API and MCP for agentic research pipelines (API keys with scopes)” source