Eric Landau

Eric Landau is the cofounder and CEO of Encord, an artificial intelligence data platform based in London, United Kingdom. He established the startup in 2020 to address machine learning data bottlenecks, securing a $30 million Series B round led by Next47 in June 2024 to bring total venture funding to over $45 million. Prior to launching Encord, Landau spent nearly five years as a Senior Quantitative Researcher at the principal trading firm DRW. In this role on the global equity delta one desk, he specialized in high-frequency trading and deployed thousands of quantitative models into production. He holds a master's degree in applied physics from Harvard University, alongside a master's degree in electrical engineering and a bachelor's degree in physics from Stanford University. His career centers on building scalable infrastructure for quantitative finance and AI applications.