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We are building a world-class team of researchers, technologists, and investment professionals.

If you are interested in joining the Sparkline team, we would love to hear from you

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Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Kai Wu
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Kai Wu is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Sparkline Capital, an investment management firm applying state-of-the-art machine learning and computing to uncover alpha in large, unstructured data sets.


Prior to Sparkline, Kai co-founded and co-managed Kaleidoscope Capital, a quantitative hedge fund in Boston. With one other partner, he grew Kaleidoscope to $350 million in assets from institutional investors. Kai jointly managed all aspects of the company, including technology, investments, operations, trading, investor relations, and recruiting.

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Previously, Kai worked at GMO, where he was a member of Jeremy Grantham’s $40 billion asset allocation team. He also worked closely with the firm's equity and macro investment teams in Boston, San Francisco, London, and Sydney.

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Kai graduated from Harvard College Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

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Advisor
Sam Wilderman
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Sam Wilderman is an advisor to Sparkline Capital, assisting on all aspects of the investment process and organization.

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Sam worked at GMO for 20 years, serving numerous investment and management roles including co-leading the Global Equity and Asset Allocation teams.

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Sam graduated from Yale University magna cum laude with a degree in economics.

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