About the team

Inference Fund was founded by Alex and Alec — MBA graduates of Duke University and Alma College — pairing two decades of data engineering with hands-on markets experience. They are joined by co-founders Vasily, who brings a finance background and a product builder's instinct for shipping, and Albert, who brings probabilistic AI research to the fund's models.

Alex Korotkoff

Founder

Twenty years in business intelligence and predictive analytics. At Oracle (ORCL), Alex worked in the Healthcare Predictive Analytics group, building on Oracle AI and Oracle Vector Database. Author of the fund's proprietary options strategy for managing market-volatility risk in pursuit of consistent returns.

Alec Nagorniak

Founder

Based in Houston, Texas. Financial reporting and analysis at Occidental Petroleum (OXY). Hands-on practitioner in derivatives and commodity markets, with a particular feel for the energy complex — WTI crude futures, calendar spreads, and the volatility that moves them.

Vasily Parinov

Co-founder

At the fund Vasily connects the research to the investor side — investor relations, reporting, and keeping the product honest with the people who use it. Finance at Santa Clara University, with a summer spent inside Lazy Dynamics working hands-on with probabilistic AI.

Albert Podusenko

Co-founder · Probabilistic AI

Based in Amsterdam. CEO of Lazy Dynamics, building a probabilistic AI engine that handles uncertainty in real time for robots, drones and edge audio systems. His focus is Bayesian inference for physical AI.