Model ML, the AI platform taking the world’s financial centres by storm, has launched in Hong Kong as titans of the banking and corporate world accelerate an arms race for the best AI tools.
Despite only emerging from stealth in February, with a $12 million funding round from YC, LocalGlobe, Model ML has seen both adoption and growth soar, adding some of the biggest names in banking and private equity as clients. With the Hong Kong launch, the startup from serial entrepreneurs and brothers Chaz and Arnie Englander is now active in four markets, including the UK, US, and Singapore.
Y-Combinator alumni – and the only founders to be backed by YC three times – Model ML has also made its first acquisition, buying Flippr – one of the most advanced AI agent companies in the world – a deal which signalled the company’s intent to stay ahead in a fast-moving market by acquiring precision-built tools that deliver users real value, fast.
Market leader
With real-time conversational AI set to soar in 2025, Model ML’s voice-controlled platform is having strong traction. Initially built for financial services but quickly moving into consulting and strategy teams, Model ML helps professionals make faster and smarter decisions by removing the grunt work. By slotting into existing workflows and only pulling and processing data from a company’s bank of trusted sources, Model ML becomes the firm’s “AI brain” – a system that mimics how professionals retrieve and process information across emails, financial reports, meeting transcripts, and third-party data sources but with greater accuracy, security and compliance.
Each of these AI agentic systems is custom-built for Model ML’s individual clients and teams, who can use the platform’s voice-first interface on a mobile or desktop to query the data and insights and automate the creation of spreadsheets, reports, and dashboards instantly. Via API or through its intuitive user interface that replaces the need for Microsoft Office Suite and Google Drive.
Unlocking the trillion-dollar opportunity
This ability to bring all published information and data together in an instant makes querying data as simple as asking a colleague for information, delivering impact and value where other AI tools fall short, while freeing top talent from low-value tasks that drain resources, hinder growth, and cost billions annually. In finance alone, highly skilled, highly paid professionals lose five weeks a year on repetitive tasks like data retrieval, analysis, and reporting.
Having previously transformed the sharing economy with Fat Llama (acquired by Hygglo) and revolutionised instant delivery with Fancy (acquired by GoPuff), the Englander brothers are now on a mission to bring global-scale impact to the world’s most critical industries and create the first trillion-dollar business built by European founders.
Chaz Englander, founder and CEO of Model ML said: “AI adoption isn’t just business-critical—it’s existential. Institutions that aggressively embrace AI will dominate entire sectors, rewriting the rules of competition and securing leadership for decades. Those who delay won’t merely fall behind—they’ll risk irrelevance. Our platform accelerates human potential, enabling professionals to make decisions with unprecedented speed, intelligence, and scale. We’re unlocking insights and driving growth on a level previously unimaginable, reshaping the future of finance—and hopefully humanity itself.”
Source: https://ffnews.com/
