Jack Kokko

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  AI, Moats, & the Future of Market Intelligence: A Fireside Chat with AlphaSense

  March 16, 2026 · 📺 The Montgomery Summit

  In this conversation, Jack Kokko, Founder and CEO of AlphaSense, joins Brian Rose of Viking Global to discuss how AI is reshaping the market intelligence landscape. They’ll explore what creates durable advantage in an AI-driven environment, how proprietary content and applied AI combine to deliver differentiated insight, and why the next generation of financial information platforms will be defined by speed, depth, and defensible output – not just access to data. Participant: Jack Kokko, Founder & CEO, AlphaSense Moderator: Brian Rose, Deputy Head of Private Equity, Viking Global Inves…

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  Lloyd Blankfein at AlphaSummit: A Conversation with Jack Kokko (CEO of AlphaSense)

  October 27, 2025 · 📺 How I Invest Podcast

  David Weisburd had a chance to witness live the conversation between Jack Kokko, Founder & CEO of AlphaSense, and Lloyd Blankfein, former Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, during AlphaSummit 2025 in New York City. In this wide-ranging discussion, Jack draws out Lloyd’s reflections on his early years in Brooklyn, his path to leading Goldman Sachs, and the lessons learned from steering the firm through periods of volatility and transformation. Together they explore how leadership, risk, and technology continue to shape Wall Street—and what it takes to stay adaptable in an ever-changing world.…

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  Jack Kokko - Building the Google of Finance at AlphaSense (EP.461)

  September 25, 2025 · 📺 Capital Allocators with Ted Seides

  Jack Kokko is co-founder and CEO of AlphaSense, the market intelligence platform often described as “Google for finance.” The company’s 6,000 customers canvass 90% of the top asset management firms, all the world’s leading investment banks, and over half of the Fortune 500 companies. Our conversation covers Jack’s early frustration as an investment banking analyst that sparked the idea for AlphaSense, the evolution of the business from a simple semantic search tool to an AI-powered research platform, the promise and perils of LLMs in high-stakes decision-making, and Jack’s vision of an alwa…

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  2025 CNBC Disruptor 50: AlphaSense volts to #8 on the list with launch of deep AI market research

  June 10, 2025 · 📺 CNBC Television

  CNBC's Julia Boorstin with Jack Kokko, AlphaSense CEO, join 'The Exchange' to discuss how his company is using generative AI ...Joining us now is Alphasense founder and CEO Jack Cocco, along with our very own Julia Boorstin. Coco, Coco Coco. Okay.

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  AlphaSense CEO & Founder, Jack Kokko, on Tegus Acquisition & $650m Funding Valuing Company at $4B

  July 11, 2024 · 📺 AlphaSense

  Our CEO and Founder, Jack Kokko, recently joined Judy Shaw on #NYSEFloorTalk to share the latest news from our company, including our recent acquisition of Tegus, our $650M financing round valuing us at $4 billion, and our latest generative AI capabilities, including AlphaSense Assistant. Thank you Judy Khan Shaw for having us on the NYSE iconic trading floor! --- AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform used by the world’s leading companies and financial institutions. → Learn more about AlphaSense: https://www.alpha-sense.com → Engage with AlphaSense: Twitter:   / alphas…

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  The B2B Google: AlphaSense Founder and CEO Jack Kokko

  June 04, 2024 · 📺 Growth Investor with GrowthCap‘s RJ Lumba

  In this episode, we speak with Jack Kokko, CEO and founder of AlphaSense, a market intelligence platform used by the world’s leading companies and financial institutions.  AlphaSense is trusted by over 1,600 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 100. The company is backed by Goldman Sachs, Viking Global, Morgan Stanley, and many other notable investors. Before AlphaSense, Jack was the founding CEO of Silecs, building the company into a global supplier of advanced materials, improving the performance of billions of semiconductor devices used in mass market electronics. I am y…

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  AlphaSense Founder and CEO, Jack Kokko, Joins CNBC's Squawk Box

  October 31, 2023 · 📺 AlphaSense

  Watch our CEO and Founder Jack Kokko on CNBC’s Squawk Box discuss today’s news on our $150 million Series E funding led by BOND at a $2.5B valuation. Learn more about our Series E round: https://www.alpha-sense.com/blog/news... --- AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform used by the world’s leading companies and financial institutions. → Learn more about AlphaSense: https://www.alpha-sense.com → Engage with AlphaSense: Twitter:   / alphasenseinc   LinkedIn:   / alphasense   Facebook:   / alphasenseinc   Instagram:   / alphasenseinc   Podcast: https://open.spotify.com…

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  AlphaSense CEO: We help enterprise customers find critical insights to make better decisions

  September 28, 2023 · 📺 CNBC Television

  Jack Kokko, AlphaSense founder and CEO, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the state of the company, now valued at $2.5 billion after announcing a $150 million Series E funding round today, how the A.I.-powered market research and data platform stacks up against the competitors including Bloomberg and FactSet, and more. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/2NGeIvi  » Subscribe to CNBC TV: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBCtelevision » Subscribe to CNBC: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBC Turn to CNBC TV for the latest stock market news and analysis. From mark…

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  NYSE Floor Talk: Jack Kokko, Founder & CEO, AlphaSense

  September 19, 2022 · 📺 New York Stock Exchange

  We talk with Jack Kokko, Founder & CEO of AlphaSense about his mission to build a search engine which provides better ...

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  How Soros-Backed AlphaSense Is Changing the Face of Wall St. Research

  July 17, 2019 · 📺 Bloomberg Tech

  Jul.17 -- Jack Kokko, AlphaSense Inc. founder and chief executive officer, discusses the company's business model and the changing face of Wall Street research with Bloomberg's Shery Ahn and Amber Kanwar on "Bloomberg Markets."

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  PANEL 🎤 Uber Yourself Before You Get Kodaked: the conversation with leading AI innovators

  January 22, 2019 · 📺 Beryl Elites

  BERYL KNOWLEDGE CENTER Uber Yourself Before You Get Kodaked: the conversation with leading innovators and thought leaders in artificial intelligence Panelists ❖ David Teten – HOF Capital ❖ Neil Sahota - IBM Watson Group ❖ Sourav Mazumder – IBM Cloud Labs ❖ Jack Kokko - AlphaSense ❖ Zeeshan Ali - Beyond Limits Sourav Mazumder "I work with many customers and many of them are financial. We typically help them, starting from data acquisition to cleansing to transformation feature engineering model, validating whether the model is good or not. There are many new AI oriented technologies that a…

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