Team

A hedge fund's brain doesn't get built by accident.

It gets built by people who've spent years scaling data-driven companies and engineering AI systems institutions trust — and who believe customer value is paramount to success.

Rich Emrich

Rich Emrich

CEO & Co-Founder

LinkedIn

Rich co-founded and scaled Acuity Insights from inception to more than $20M in recurring revenue. The assessment platform is used widely in healthcare education globally.

At Mercata, his focus is keeping customers at the center of every decision, conversation, and demo.

Matthew Rennie

Matthew Rennie

CTO & Co-Founder

LinkedIn

Matthew is a founder and engineering leader with seventeen-plus years building fintech SaaS. He has led product and engineering at Ovation and Jemstep (acquired by Invesco), and has spent his career on the practical edge of AI, data architecture, and full-stack delivery.

He is the architect of the system underneath Mercata — the substrate that lets each firm's reasoning live, compound, and get more theirs every day.

Sung Cha

Sung Cha

Product Manager

LinkedIn

Sung spent years building product inside AlphaSense and Sentieo — two platforms every fundamental analyst knows. He's built for the exact buyer Mercata serves today.

His firsthand sense for where those products serve a hedge fund well, and where they leave gaps that only a firm's own system can fill, shapes how Mercata gets built.

How we work

Built to be shaped by the firm, not shipped to the firm.

Mercata is built to be shaped by your team — your COO, your PM, your senior analyst — alongside our team. No professional services layer between us. We hold the system; you shape it.

We're hiring quietly. If you've spent time inside a fundamental shop, or you've built fintech infrastructure that people lived inside, we'd like to talk.

What we're building

The next great fundamental funds will run on infrastructure their predecessors never had.

We're building it.