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This summer, our founder George Kailas launched Aethon Fund, a New York hedge fund built on the same signal research that powers Prospero. For us, it was a proud moment. The signals our community has used, tested, and pushed us to improve since 2019 are now anchoring an institutional fund.
The launch was covered by tech media, hedge fund trade press, and major business outlets. We've gathered every feature here, along with what each one says about Prospero and what it means for you.
July 15, 2026 · Video · Watch the segment on YouTube
On the day of the launch announcement, George joined TBPN, the daily tech and business livestream. The show introduced him as a value investor and AI builder who led Prospero, which they described as a hedge fund-level AI research desk.
George walked through how Aethon uses signal libraries from Prospero to create thousands of strategies designed to work across different markets. He also discussed Prospero’s approach to making complex signal data easier to use and how the team tested those signals with retail investors in live markets.
Why it matters for Prospero: The segment makes it clear that Prospero’s signal library is a foundation for Aethon’s strategy development.
July 16, 2026 · Article · Read on Hedgeweek
Hedgeweek, one of the leading hedge fund trade publications, covered the launch in detail. The launch capital includes an anchor allocation through a separately managed account from a fund of funds, alongside commitments from institutional investors and ultra-high-net-worth individuals.
The article explains that Aethon isn't a conventional quant fund. Its process centers on a proprietary library of market signals combined with AI-powered portfolio management and execution. The fund runs multiple systematic strategies across long, short, momentum, mean-reversion, and accumulation styles, and shifts capital toward whichever strategies are performing best in current conditions.
Hedgeweek also highlighted Aethon's leadership team: CTO Dave Lauer, a former high-frequency trader at Citadel and Allston Trading who has advised US regulators on market structure; Head of AI Ezi Ozoani, who joins from Hugging Face; and Head of Trading Joe Bernstein, who spent eight years developing systematic strategies at Tower Research Capital.
Why it matters for Prospero: Hedgeweek describes Aethon's toolkit as quantitative signals covering more than 2,000 equities, social media sentiment analysis, analyst-rating models that weight forecasts by historical accuracy, and predictive models that estimate return probabilities across stocks and ETFs. If you use Prospero, those will sound familiar. They're the same kinds of signals you see on our platform every day.
July 2026 · Article · Read on Business Insider
Business Insider's feature looks at how the biggest funds compete for an investing edge. For years, that competition was a talent war, with funds racing to hire the best traders. Now firms are increasingly looking outside their own walls for ideas.
Aethon is featured as an example of that shift. The piece describes how Aethon will invest using signals generated from the retail traders who have used Prospero over the years. It also highlights Aethon's core thesis: AI ended the era when quant funds won by outspending each other on data, and the new edge comes from proprietary inputs that have been stress-tested before institutional use.
Why it matters for Prospero: Business Insider puts our community at the center of the story. The ideas and feedback you've shared with us are exactly the kind of outside insight large funds are now working to capture.
July 20, 2026 · Article · Read on CFOtech
CFOtech gave the most detailed account of how Prospero and Aethon connect, with a full section on the relationship. According to Aethon, its signal library was informed by four years of live calls with more than 200,000 retail investors.
George summed up the philosophy in four words: "Most funds guess. We measure." He also gave credit where it belongs, explaining that feedback from Prospero users helped shape the tools Aethon uses today.
The article also covers Aethon's plan to publish examples of how its signals work on specific stocks. That kind of openness is rare in an industry where managers typically keep their methods confidential, and it's a value we've always shared at Prospero.
Why it matters for Prospero: The signal set CFOtech describes is our product: nine daily signals across more than 2,000 stocks, a social sentiment system tracking Reddit, X, and StockTwits, an analyst-rating model that weights price targets by recent forecasting accuracy, and a return probability model. As Aethon noted, these signals were proven in live market conditions, not just in backtests.
September 18, 2026 · Article · Read the FundFire feature
FundFire, the Financial Times specialist publication for asset managers, profiled Aethon two months after launch with a sharper argument: many funds are using AI in the wrong place. Aethon uses AI to adjust its strategy mix as conditions change and to execute the resulting trades, which frees its investment team to focus on developing the best ideas.
George put it this way: many AI funds are "building a car and they don't know how the engine works," while Aethon builds every engine part itself. In his view, AI excels at responsiveness, and funds that rely on it to generate ideas have the process backwards.
The article places this in industry context, citing a new Neudata survey showing that only 28% of hedge funds and alternative data buyers have adopted AI-processed data to optimize their investment and trading strategies, down from 31% a year earlier.
Why it matters for Prospero: FundFire reports that Aethon develops its own signals and also licenses a signal library from Prospero, which remains a separate platform serving more than 20,000 monthly active users.
Every outlet told a version of the same story: the signals you rely on at Prospero were strong enough to anchor an institutional hedge fund. That happened because of you. Every call, every piece of feedback, and every market you pushed us to cover made these tools better.
Prospero isn't going anywhere. We remain an independent platform led by Adam Plante, with George staying on as chairman, and a share of Aethon's proceeds will come back to support the work we do for you.
Aethon Fund is a New York-based hedge fund founded by George Kailas, Prospero’s founder. It pairs proprietary market signals with AI-powered portfolio management and trade execution, and launched in July 2026 with $50 million in initial allocations and commitments.
Aethon draws on research developed at Prospero and licenses signals from our platform. A portion of Aethon’s proceeds will go back to Prospero.
Adam Plante, our longtime CTO, is now CEO. George Kailas serves as Chairman.
No. Prospero is a separate platform for retail investors, and we’ll keep building tools for our community of more than 20,000 monthly active users.
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