Software firm finds success in a super-early entry to a hot market

Wesley Chapel–based Market Technologies was founded in 1979.

More than 30,000 customers in 140 countries use software from Wesley Chapel–based Market Technologies, run by Lane Mendelsohn for investment and business decisions.
More than 30,000 customers in 140 countries use software from Wesley Chapel–based Market Technologies, run by Lane Mendelsohn for investment and business decisions.
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Back when Louis Mendelsohn first started using artificial intelligence to predict what the global financial markets would do, no one had a Siri in their pocket or an Alexa in their living room.

Mendelsohn had founded his Wesley Chapel–based company, Market Technologies, in 1979. He began experimenting with AI in the late 1980s.

 

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