# Eric Chang

> Eric Chang is the co-founder and CEO of Claira, a New York fintech building domain-native, agentic AI for private credit and capital markets deal teams. A CFA charterholder with a Cornell engineering degree, he spent nearly two decades inside Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, AQR, and Morgan Stanley before deciding the real problem in finance was not faster analysts but firms that forget what they already know. Claira turns dense legal and credit documents into structured, queryable data and aims to become a firm's permanent decision-making memory. In June 2025 the company raised a $7M seed co-led by Barclays and Citi.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Claira
- **Organizations:** Claira, Exos, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, AQR Capital Management, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Signac
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Claira, an AI deal-intelligence platform for private credit and capital markets, Raised $7M seed funding co-led by Barclays and Citi, with Reimagine Tech Ventures, Activant Capital, KDX and OPCO Ventures, Secured strategic investment from Citi's SPRINT division (2022) and a place in the Barclays Rise Growth Academy (2023)

## Career timeline

- **2006-2007** — Technology / Sales and Trading analyst at Goldman Sachs
- **2008-2011** — Portfolio Analytics Group Associate at BlackRock
- **2011-2015** — Investment Strategist at BlackRock
- **2015-2016** — Vice President, Macro Portfolio Management at AQR Capital Management
- **later** — Analytical Strategist at Signac (product design, risk modeling, data analysis)
- **later** — Led AI and NLP strategy & development within Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
- **later** — Head of Tech Product & Strategy at Exos, where Claira was incubated
- **2022** — Claira receives strategic investment from Citi's SPRINT division (July 2022)
- **2023** — Claira accepted into Barclays Rise Growth Academy (Sept 2023)
- **2025** — Claira raises $7M seed co-led by Barclays and Citi (June 2025); Chang named to Who's Who in Private Credit

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Claira, an AI deal-intelligence platform for private credit and capital markets
- Raised $7M seed funding co-led by Barclays and Citi, with Reimagine Tech Ventures, Activant Capital, KDX and OPCO Ventures
- Secured strategic investment from Citi's SPRINT division (2022) and a place in the Barclays Rise Growth Academy (2023)
- Named in Marc Andrew's 2025 Who's Who in Private Credit
- Built AI and NLP solutions at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
- CFA charterholder

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Claira raised $7M seed funding co-led by Barclays and Citi to scale engineering and go-to-market for private credit workflows.
- **2025-06** — Eric Chang named in the 2025 Who's Who in Private Credit and spoke at the Private Credit Tech Summit.

## Links

- Website: https://claira.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-mao-chang/

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Last updated: 2026-06-24