NowcastIQ
NowcastIQ provides daily macro nowcasts and regime probabilities for growth, inflation, and liquidity across the USA, UK, Eurozone, India, and China, using alternative high-frequency data to give investors an early read on regime shifts before official prints confirm them. The platform includes five years of backtested history, asset-level regime playbooks, and a live portfolio with transparent positions and PnL. It is used by funds managing over $180 billion and built in partnership with Steno Research.
- Data & Analytics
- Financial Technology
- Software Only
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Macro investors often rely on lagging official economic data, leaving them slow to identify turning points in growth, inflation, and liquidity. This delay reduces the time advantage needed to position portfolios ahead of consensus and market-moving regime shifts.
Solution
NowcastIQ provides daily macro nowcasts and regime probabilities for growth, inflation, and liquidity across the USA, UK, Eurozone, India, and China. The platform uses a proprietary nowcasting engine that scores economic conditions from alternative, high-frequency data, giving investors an early read on regime shifts before official prints confirm them. Each economy is calibrated with region-specific data, and the framework follows the macro approach of Andreas Steno Larsen and the Steno Research desk. Probabilities for every regime state allow investors to size positions against the odds, while backtested history across five years demonstrates the strategy's performance. The platform also offers research insights, including daily briefs and weekly deep dives, connecting the data to the narrative. A live portfolio tracks actual positions, allocations, and PnL, providing full transparency on how the signals translate into trades.
Target Audience
Primary customers are hedge funds and institutional investors managing macro-driven portfolios who need early directional insight on economic variables and regime shifts to inform tactical and strategic positioning.
Features
- Daily nowcasts for growth, inflation, and liquidity across five major economies using alternative high-frequency data
- Regime probability calculations for every state, enabling early detection of macro inflection points
- Five years of backtested regime history for each region, validated against actual economic releases
- Backtested strategy performance showing a 158.4% cumulative long/short return, 60% directional accuracy, and a 2.13 Sharpe ratio
- Accuracy metrics broken down by regime type and sentiment level, highlighting strongest performance during Quantitative Tightening and extreme bullish/bearish signals
- Asset-level regime playbooks showing historical performance for any asset during past instances of the current regime
- Live portfolio with transparent positions, allocations, entry prices, and weekly write-ups in "What We Told Hedge Funds"
- Research layer with daily briefs and weekly deep dives from Steno Research, tied to the current macro state