Having spent an entire career at the intersection of global finance, 风险管理, 和地缘政治, 芭芭拉·C. 创始人兼首席执行官 BCMstrategy公司., built the unique perspective 和 distinct experience to create a product that automatically measures 和 analyzes public policy risks.
“公共政策可以推动价格走势. But public policy risks are expressed verbally while financial market risks are expressed through numbers,马修斯说。. “Our patented technology helps markets identify public policy shifts faster 和 make better data-driven decisions about risk exposures. 这个平台叫做PolicyScope."
Combining Career Expertise with Entrepreneurial Acumen
Matthews served in senior leadership positions at the U.S. Departments of the Treasury 和 State (Senate-confirmed), the U.S. Congress, 和 a major global trade association over the course of her career. She has also been an entrepreneur, founding a successful solo consulting practice. While consulting with large hedge funds, she identified the need to generate automated structured quantitative 和 verbal data from the global public policy process.
After receiving a patent for 9+ levels of analytical automation that convert the language of public policy into structured data, 马修斯建立了bcm战略, 公司. in late 2017 with a mission: to bring the data revolution to policy intelligence. The company seeks to help investors anticipate market volatility, tackle information overload 和 acquire strategic insight regarding public policy trends using concrete, 透明的, 客观的数据.
“Other companies use natural language processing to detect sentiment,马修斯说。. “We instead measure activity levels, the factors that drive analytical, policy-driven decisions.”
The patented data-generating process uses more than 1,000 proprietary lexicon terms to measure activity volumes, 没有情绪. 以政治学为基础, the process automatically 和 daily identifies 和 measures official sector activity across the five factors that drive policy decisions:
- 修辞(媒体报道);
- 向媒体泄密;
- action (regardless of media coverage);
- data releases; 和
- 司法活动.
The data has been mapped to 300+ st和ard economic sectors to facilitate capital market risk analysis.
BCMstrategy公司.’s initial clients are portfolio managers, investment strategists/analysts, 和 volatility traders. The company’s data as a service (DaaS) solutions deliver a daily feed to global macro 和 strategic investors who then can use the data to automatically identify when public policy changes will impact their portfolio positions. Currently, key areas of interest include climate finance, digital currency, 和 monetary policy.
创新前沿的合作伙伴
Finding the right partners is crucial to the success of any start-up. Start-ups require more than funding to thrive; they rely on dynamic ecosystems 和 strategic partners to amplify opportunities 和 deliver guidance. 除了天使投资, the company recently closed a significant funding round with Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) 和 has secured distribution agreements with Dow Jones 和 Bloomberg.
"I was surprised to learn how hard it is for female founders to secure funding, particularly in the information technology field,马修斯说。. “幸运的是, 然而, from the Commonwealth of Virginia to Wall Street, 我们公司已经发现了承诺, 前瞻性战略合作伙伴, 我们的天使投资人, 和 government entities like Virginia’s Innovation 和 Commercialization Assistance Program (ICAP) 和 Prince William County, who know that accelerating growth requires exploring the innovation frontier.”
BCMstrategy公司. 获得了IGNITE项目资助, a competitive non-dilutive grant offered by Prince William County Department of Economic Development with a $25K cash grant for early-stage companies 和 $50K for companies with funding.
“We are thrilled to become a part of Prince William County's technology ecosystem 和 honored by this grant award,马修斯说。. “The dynamic, start-up culture 和 sophisticated workforce here can meet our needs as we exp和.”
位于Brickyard Cowork in Woodbridge, Matthews is excited for the future. During February, the company launched a Bloomberg Terminal app called V3 {APPS PLCY
BCMstrategy公司. is committed to contributing thought leadership to the global alternative data ecosystem through its 免费领英通讯 和 活跃的博客 where you can learn more about this fast-growing company.
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