KX, a high-performance analytical database, today emerges as an independent software company following the sale of First Derivative by its parent company FD Technologies in October 2024.

By merging temporal intelligence with ultra-fast data processing and analytics, KX aims to lead the market as AI-driven decisions power the speed, agility and adaptability that will determine an organization’s success in the real-time economy.

“KX is uniquely positioned to support fast-moving, data-intensive organizations as they overcome AI’s biggest data challenges: completeness, timeliness and efficiency,” said Ashok Reddy, CEO, KX. “We provide our customers with an unmatched ability to understand change over time, adapt to new or volatile conditions in their environment, respond faster than their competition, optimize operations, personalize customer experiences and be the first to capitalize on market shifts.”

The KX platform, built on kdb+, allows users to develop high-performance algorithms while seamlessly integrating temporal context into the decision-making processes. This combination delivers superior, real-time adaptive decision intelligence at scale. Leading capital markets institutions leverage this capability to execute algorithmic trading strategies that process billions of data points per second, resulting in significant competitive advantages through faster insights and more precise execution.

In addition to the strong reputation that KX has established in capital markets, the company now sees tremendous opportunity to extend these proven capabilities to additional industries. As a standalone entity, and with its deep partnerships including NVIDIA, Microsoft and AWS, KX will bring real-time decision intelligence to sectors including aerospace and defense, high tech manufacturing, healthcare and life sciences, and automotive and fleet telematics, key industries where success relies on speed, adaptability and unquestioned accuracy.