Atlas Analytics Receives Pre-Seed Investment
The Investment Supported Atlas Analytics’ Ability to Scale Toward Our Goal to Forecast the Global Economy in Real Time
TLDR:
Atlas Analytics received its first capital investment from Keri Melshenker Allen, who has also joined the company as a Strategic Advisor.
This initial backing has already helped Atlas Analytics by providing the funds to hire a supporting content creation team as well as a technical consultant to further our algorithm development.
While Atlas Analytics continues to welcome new funding opportunities to expedite growth, the future also looks bright with ongoing applications for an SBIR grant and accelerator input.
In December 2024, Atlas Analytics, Inc. received its first pre-seed investment from Keri Melshenker Allen, a Human Resources Compensation Consultant for Signet Jewelers (the parent company of Jared’s, Zales, Kay Jewelers, and others). With Keri’s deep expertise in competitive compensation strategies that drive organizational excellence and foster employee engagement, as well as being an alumni of The College of William & Mary’s Thomas Jefferson School of Public Policy (2015), she was a natural fit to make the first investment in Atlas Analytics.
Keri and Atlas Analytics Founder Jake Schneider first met on a William & Mary alternative spring break service trip to provide low-income housing for Lowcountry residents of Charleston, South Carolina through Habitat for Humanity. Drawing from her extensive experience on the intersection of economics, public policy, and compensation analysis, Keri found Atlas Analytics’ cutting-edge satellite macroeconomic forecasting technology compelling and now serves as a Strategic Advisor to the company.
The funds from this investment have supported several strategic initiatives for the company and have provided capital for Atlas Analytics’ continued growth. Among these initiatives, Atlas Analytics deployed funds to purchase its website domain name as well as hire a web developer for the site, a copy editor for our weekly content, and a videographer for our quarterly GDP predictions on our YouTube channel. Recently, Atlas Analytics further utilized this capital to hire a technical consultant to assist the company with additional algorithm development. . Atlas Analytics has also partnered with New World Economics to provide economic forecasting services to the manufacturing sector. Ultimately these funds, progress, and partnerships are helping Atlas Analytics to reach our goal to forecast economic activity for the entire world in real time.
For next steps, Atlas Analytics is currently under consideration for the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Grant (SBIR). We are also applying to accelerators to receive strategic advice and are in talks with other angel investors to secure the funding for future initiatives. These plans include finalizing our patent and expanding our team to build our ROY algorithm to forecast the economy of foreign economies (including China), develop our second algorithm to predict Net Exports in real time, and utilize ROY’s capabilities to model economic activity for the near future. As Atlas Analytics’ current ROY algorithm has been very successful in predicting U.S. GDP ahead of government releases, as evident from our track record above, we are excited for what the rest of 2025 has in store for the company.
Atlas Analytics is currently seeking additional investment, partners to work with us, and clients to utilize our technology. If you are interested in joining our cutting-edge team, please send us an email to start the conversation.