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HORAE

Technical/scientific Challenge:

Horae Technology is an entrepreneurial and independent investment management company, founded in 2021, and approved by the French financial market Authority (AMF). Our mission: Enhance the value of our clients' savings. Horae Technology addresses both private clients and institutional investors through the mutual fund « Horae Opportunities » and the management of customised mandates. We offer a discretionary and flexible investment philosophy by investing in liquid stocks and bonds in the American and European markets. With the prominent support of the Ecole Polytechnique, Horae Technology develops experimental decision-support algorithms inspired by behavioural finance and deep reinforcement learning.

Solution:

In September 2021, Horae Technology integrated the CC-FR Tailored Program, to benefit from a high-level support in intensive computing. In collaboration with CRIANN (Regional Centre Information Technology and Digital Applications Normandy), Horae Technology was able to access the MYRIA supercomputer, equipped with more than 10,000 computing cores connected in very high throughput, and capable close to 700 trillion transactions per second.

Results:

Thanks to CRIANN high-level expertise in intensive computing, Horae Technology has been able to significantly increase the power of its artificial intelligence tool and the robustness of its models. Individual and personalized support has also enabled the company quickly become autonomous in the use of the MYRIA supercomputer. Today, Horae Technology continues to improve its tool and aims for a full integration of artificial intelligence in its investment process over a period of 6 months.

Benefits:

This computing power enabled the company to:

• significantly improve the calculation time of its intelligence algorithms' training artificial;

• accelerate the performance of its tool through the parallelization of its code and the ability to analyze thus thousands of financial securities simultaneously.