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Boilerplate bios

One-liner

David Betancourt, Ph.D. — computer scientist and entrepreneur building frontier AI for the world’s most complex markets.

Short bio

David Betancourt, Ph.D., is the Founder & CEO of Reinforce Market Labs and Founder & Head of AI of DB Macro Research. A Georgia Tech Ph.D. and former AI Scientist at Apple, Dr. Betancourt builds trusted autonomy — AI agents reliable enough to operate in business-critical markets.

Long bio

David Betancourt, Ph.D., is a computer scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur building frontier AI for the world’s most complex markets. He is the Founder & CEO of Reinforce Market Labs, where he builds the control infrastructure that makes business-critical AI agents trustworthy enough to act autonomously, and Founder & Head of AI of DB Macro Research, a private quantitative research and trading firm where he directs AI-driven, systematic strategies. Previously, as an AI Scientist at Apple, he led and pioneered on-device, privacy-preserving AI for recommendation and advertising, and served as Chief Scientist at Vorstella, a cloud observability startup (acquired). He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, with research in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, and AI reliability. A single idea connects his research and his companies: trusted autonomy — AI systems that can be relied on to observe, reason, and act under uncertainty.

Fast facts

Full name
David Betancourt, Ph.D.
Roles
Founder & CEO, Reinforce Market LabsFounder & Head of AI, DB Macro Research
Education
Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science; M.S. and B.S. in Engineering (B.S. with High Honors)Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
Previously
AI Scientist, AppleChief Scientist, Vorstella — cloud observability (acquired)
Based in
New York, NY
Press contact
[email protected]

Topics I can speak to

  • Trusted autonomy — making AI agents reliable enough for business-critical decisions
  • AI in quantitative finance and systematic trading
  • Agentic AI infrastructure, governance, and reliability
  • The AI supply chain and its effect on the broader economy
  • Taking AI from research to production

Companies

Reinforce Market Labs is an AI infrastructure company building the control layer and system of record that make AI agents reliable enough for business-critical markets — starting in finance, where auditability is non-negotiable.

DB Macro Research is a quantitative research and trading firm that pairs deep market research with AI to trade systematically across equities, options, crypto, and prediction markets.

Products & platforms

EigenTrader OS is the operating system for autonomous trading — governance, attribution, and intelligence that quants build their own agents on. It is a product of Reinforce Market Labs.

Publications

  • AgenticAlpha

    Premium newsletter on Substack — research and market intelligence on agentic AI and the markets it’s reshaping.

  • Perspectives

    Essays and commentary at the intersection of frontier AI, capital markets, and financial infrastructure.

Assets

Press inquiries

For interviews, commentary, or speaking, email [email protected] — or use the contact form.