Thasos Group

Thasos is an alternative data intelligence platform that transforms real-time locations from mobile phones into objective and actionable insights on the performance of businesses, markets, and economies globally. Founded in 2011 out of MIT Media Lab, the firm is commercially successful with hedge fund clients having used its intelligence for the last three years. Thasos' management, investors and advisors are a who's who of data scientists, hedge fund executives and academics, including PDT Co-Founder Ken Nickerson, former D.E. Shaw Chief Risk Officer Peter Bernard, MIT Media Lab Co-Creator Sandy Pentland and Andrew Lo, Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Thasos occupies a unique position in the alternative data space by aggregating, validating, normalizing and analyzing the largest pool of high-quality mobile phone location data outside of Google and Apple.