Asymmetrica Labs

Company profile

Asymmetrica Labs company profile

Asymmetrica has created a text format that meaningfully improves reading comprehension. Our software platform, Asym, precisely adjusts the spaces between words. Our vision is to improve global literacy one reader and business at a time. For businesses, Asym provides a 5-32% lift across retail revenue, conversion funnels, web engagement, advertisement click-through rates, direct mail, and other content by improving how readers' brains render text. These metrics are the cornerstones of online revenue generation. Asym is a cognitive technology that systematically improves conversion and makes the story and message of online brands stick. Asymmetrica is poised to become a large, high-margin company by generating real revenue for a broad range of customers. Asymmetrica was founded by Chris Nicholas and Ken Brownfield within HVF Labs, Max Levchin's innovation lab and investment firm. Chris has a PhD in neuroscience and is an experienced data scientist, published expert in molecular genetics and word & letter perception, product manager, and co-inventor of five typesetting patents including fixed-layout ebooks. Starting in 1999, Ken built out PayPal's initial production infrastructure and continued with architectural roles at PayPal and eBay. He subsequently worked with Max at MRL Ventures, Slide, and Google, and most recently managed YouTube's website infrastructure. Our foundational technology is fast, scalable, and directly combats modern distractions and low literacy – two real and underestimated problems for any content provider.