Grant: Idea to Innovation

We have developed a powerful search and processing engine for numerical financial data by applying our innovative signal and information processing technologies in the areas of content-based information retrieval (CBIR), statistical signal processing and adaptive filtering, and advanced computational intelligence. Our goal is to develop and market powerful search and processing software for financial databases based on this engine. The product under development is EidoSearch, a software platform which consists of innovative tools used to support content-based search and retrieval, customized analysis, and intelligent decision-making for sophisticated financial professionals. Our software and services will maximize the competency of our customers in the financial industry. This proposed Phase IIb project is built on our successful completion of a Phase I and Phase IIa project, in which we developed an EidoSearch commercial prototype, acquired initial paid institutional customers, and established our spin-off start-up company for product marketing. Based on the enthusiastic market response we received and with the support of our initial investors, our objectives of the Phase IIb project are to further improve performance and functionality through R&D and bulid a set of mature commercial products of EidoSearch and push them to the mass market by working with the start-up company. Our project team is composed of leading technology researchers and developers, financial professionals, interface design and marketing experts. Our technologies and product prototype have attracted strong interests from investment professionals and institutions, who would like to put the EidoSearch product into their daily work flow.