INTERVIEW: Benzinga's Andrew Lebos On Becoming The Data Layer For 400 Brokerages

In this Boom Room interview, Andrew Lebbos, SVP of Data Licensing at Benzinga, reveals how proprietary financial data, prediction markets, and AI training models are redefining retail trading and institutional crypto asset tokenization. Andrew Lebbos scaled the company's licensing operations nearly 10x across global brokerages and fintechs. He specializes in financial market APIs, alternative data licensing, and monetizing proprietary news feeds for modern trading platforms. Discussion: Data Rails & AI Integration: How Benzinga supplies Perplexity and AI engines with first-party financial data and LLM training corpora. Prediction Markets as Infrastructure: Why data settlement partnerships with platforms like Kalshi transform event markets into core financial infrastructure. Crypto Meets TradFi: Dissolving the boundaries between retail investors and institutional DeFi yield built on tokenized securities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 📍Useful Links for Arcanum Ventures: 👉 Arcanum Ventures X: x.com/ArcanumVentures 👉 Arcanum Ventures LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcanum-ventures/ 👉 Arcanum Venture Website: https://www.arcanum.ventures/ 👉 Arcanum Telegram Community: https://t.me/Arcanumventures 👉 Work With Us: https://www.arcanum.ventures/workwithusform/ 👉 Arcanum Media Center: https://www.arcanum.ventures/media-center/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 📍Useful Links for Andrew Lebbos and Benzinga: 👉 Andrew Lebbos LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lebbosandrew/ 👉 Benzinga Website: https://www.benzinga.com/ 👉 Benzinga API: https://www.benzinga.com/apis/ 👉 Benzinga LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benzinga/ 👉 Benzinga X: https: https://x.com/benzinga 👉 Benzinga Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/benzinga -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 📍Disclaimer: Arcanum Ventures is currently invested in and advising AIGO.ai. The context of this interview and the content is merely meant to provide discussion and insight to viewers interested in the #startups and #web3 industries This video was created to serve as an educational aid, and nothing in the video constitutes any financial advice. Do your own research and #invest wisely!