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KX has announced that it is now operating as a standalone software company, following the October 2024 divestiture of First Derivative by its former parent, FD Technologies. The company said it will continue developing its high-performance analytical platform to support real-time decision-making powered by temporal AI.
Ashok Reddy, CEO of KX, commented, “KX is uniquely positioned to support fast-moving, data-intensive organizations as they overcome AI’s biggest data challenges: completeness, timeliness and efficiency.”
KX’s core product, built on the kdb+ database, combines ultra-fast analytics with temporal context, allowing users to process time-series data at speed and scale. This foundation, according to the company, has supported data-intensive operations in capital markets for over three decades, and will now be applied more broadly across sectors.
AI for strategic optimization and decision-making
Neil Ward-Dutton, Vice President, Automation, Analytics and AI, IDC Europe, commented, “While the current wave of AI interest is focused on generating content, code, and enabling increased employee productivity, there is an important role for AI that often gets overlooked: in strategic optimization and decision-making. As business networks and infrastructure become increasingly instrumented and automated, organizations that are able to gain and act on insights at high speed have the opportunity to become more competitive, and more resilient.”
KX believes its decision to operate independently gives it a stronger position to meet market demand for real-time intelligence. The company’s technology processes billions of data points per second, enabling rapid backtesting, anomaly detection, and high-frequency trading. KX stated that this edge will extend beyond finance into industries where responsiveness and accuracy are essential.
Ralston Roberts, Head of Global Markets at Velocity Clearing, commented, “The key to high-performance analytics isn’t just real-time data—it’s the ability to run interactive, ad hoc queries at the speed of thought. Instead of waiting hours or days for results, we are now able to process complex queries in seconds or minutes with KX. This type of speed allows us to quickly back test routing optimization ideas, look at years of historical data, and adapt instantly, turning what used to be a slow, rigid process into an agile, dynamic advantage.”
KX has identified aerospace and defense, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, and automotive telematics as priority sectors for expansion. The company maintains that these industries face growing demands for data-driven agility, and that its software offers a tested path toward operational speed and situational awareness.
“Moving beyond incremental, every-day uses of generative AI to agentic systems”
Daryl Plummer, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, commented, “Moving beyond incremental, every-day uses of generative AI to agentic systems that take action based on our questions or statements is transformational. Data is the power behind the transformation of these new knowledge systems and harnessing it will enable companies to go the extra mile.”
As part of its next phase, KX will deepen its technology partnerships with firms including Microsoft, AWS, and NVIDIA. The company said these alliances support deployments across cloud and edge environments, while scaling temporal analytics into complex operations.
The company also pointed to secondary benefits of high-speed analytics, originally developed for financial systems, that now support broader societal needs. KX noted applications ranging from medical trials and climate modeling to telecommunications, cybersecurity, and emergency response planning.
KX software is already used by leading institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The company stated that as real-time systems become essential across industries, its technology will provide the infrastructure to interpret change, respond precisely, and extract more value from data.
