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Alpha Research

Open source, agentic knowledge bases for all of humanity's knowledge.

Alpha Research builds open source agentic knowledge bases. Our mission is to help knowledge workers work 100x faster. We launched and open sourced our first platform, Alpha Book on a mirror of the Project Gutenberg dataset (75,000 books). Knowledge work is bottlenecked in two key ways: finding evidence and testing hypotheses. We make both 100x faster. We extend keyword search and RAG with general coding agents, which use filesystem tools like ripgrep and reason iteratively to find broad evidence. Coding agents also write ad-hoc scripts to label datasets and test hypotheses. Our timeline is simple: repeat Alpha Book across every public dataset of humanity's knowledge. Next we'll launch Alpha Econ with US Census, BLS, NBER, etc datasets. Alpha Justice with US Supreme Court Cases, and so on. We support museums, research libraries, historical societies, and archives. We also do custom integration work for enterprise.
Active Founders
Ryan Prendergast
Ryan Prendergast
Founder
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Company Launches
Zenobia Pay - Payments for luxury
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Hey! We’re Teddy and Ryan, co-founders of Zenobia Pay.

Zenobia Pay enables luxury brands to accept pay-by-bank and avoid fraud, chargebacks, and credit card fees.

https://youtu.be/1dwgU3zQz3k

Online credit card payments are expensive and rife with fraud. Fees account for 3+% of transaction volume, and high-ticket items account for more than a third of the 100 million annual chargebacks in the US.

With Zenobia Pay, payments cost only 1%, clear instantly, and are protected with a fraud chargeback guarantee. Customers link their bank to their own hardware, where it’s stored locally in a secure enclave. Merchant sites never see sensitive tokens or account numbers.

Founders Theodore Li and Ryan Prendergast started Zenobia Pay with a mission to make it 3x cheaper to transact online, bypassing the senselessly high credit card interchange fees that aren’t normal anywhere outside the US.

If you sell goods online for >$200 and want to 3x lower your fees, email us at merchants@zenobiapay.com. View our site at zenobiapay.com

Alpha Research
Founded:2025
Batch:Spring 2025
Team Size:1
Status:
Active
Location:New York
Primary Partner:Pete Koomen