Synthesis

Founded in 2019, Synthesis is a privately held quantitative investment company headquartered in New York, with an additional office in London. The firm describes its focus as statistical arbitrage in equity markets.

Synthesis builds mid-frequency systematic trading strategies and automates much of the research and trading pipeline. Its machine-learning systems process financial and alternative datasets, generate large numbers of trading signals, and combine them into portfolios while accounting for return, risk, market impact, and transaction costs.

For students, the firm appears especially suited to candidates interested in quantitative research, machine learning, statistics, Python, and empirical analysis rather than traditional investment banking or fundamental asset management. Its internship description emphasizes work with large datasets, proprietary computing infrastructure, and end-to-end research projects.