Akros is a financial technology company that designs and licenses thematic indices for exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The company helps ETF teams identify market whitespace, test product ideas within 24 hours, and build custom, compliance-ready index strategies. Akros covers sectors including semiconductors, space technology, robotics, and Korea-focused markets.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
ETF product development teams often struggle to identify viable market opportunities and face long, costly timelines when bringing new index-based products to market. The process of validating demand, testing hypotheses, and building compliance-ready strategies typically requires significant resources and expertise that many teams lack internally.
Solution
Akros provides a data-driven platform that helps ETF teams discover market whitespace, rapidly test product ideas, and build custom index strategies. The company combines predictive analytics, rapid simulation tools, and source-linked research to transform product hypotheses into explicit, review-ready portfolio rules. Akros offers a growing catalog of licensed indices across thematic categories including semiconductors, space technology, artificial intelligence, and Korea-focused markets, while also supporting bespoke index development for institutional clients.
Target Audience
Primary customers are ETF issuers, asset managers, and financial institutions seeking to launch differentiated index-based products, including major banks and investment firms across the United States, Australia, and Asia.
Features
- Predictive discovery engine that scores opportunities by comparing investor demand, category supply, and implementation feasibility signals
- Rapid refinement tools that let teams test and refine product hypotheses within 24 hours through simulations and audience-led universe construction
- Source-linked research that converts the strongest hypotheses into explicit portfolio rules with preserved decision trails for compliance review
- Licensed index catalog spanning 15+ published indices including the Akros Magnificent Six Index, Akros LLM Index, and Akros Korea Semiconductor Index
- Thematic index construction across sectors such as space technology, AI semiconductors, robotics, and electronic components
- UCITS-compliant index options for European market distribution
- Bloomberg ticker integration for all published indices, enabling seamless data access for institutional users