Bad investing advice and social media scams drove 2 Gen Z investors to start their own trading platform Samuel O&x27;BrientSat, June 27, 2026 at 9:30 AM UTC 0 Photo 1: Ivan Patriki; Photo 2: Carson Hein The founders of QuantMap say they want to democratize quant research. They saw a need for better tools as bad investing advice and scams proliferated on social media. Founder Carson Hein says they aim for transparency by showing what their platform can do via live trading on Discord.
Bad investing advice and social media scams drove 2 Gen Z investors to start their own trading platform
Samuel O'BrientSat, June 27, 2026 at 9:30 AM UTC
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Photo 1: Ivan Patriki; Photo 2: Carson Hein -
The founders of QuantMap say they want to democratize quant research.
They saw a need for better tools as bad investing advice and scams proliferated on social media.
Founder Carson Hein says they aim for transparency by showing what their platform can do via live trading on Discord.
The rise of the "finfluencer" has been well documented, but Ivan Patriki and Carson Hein say the bad advice and scams that unsuspecting traders stumble into have not.
An active trader with over 300,00 followers on social media, Patriki can be considered an influencer himself. However, after becoming disenchanted with the information being promoted by some prominent personalities online, he joined forces with a fellow trader when both were still teenagers. Their plan was to give everyday investors access to better tools by launching QuantMap.
"You're either lying about the money you made trading with a broker or prop firm, or you're lying about the money you're making just trading normally," Patriki told Business Insider about the tales influencers spin to win followers. "I decided I'm going to speak to the best trader that I know [and] build a system with him."
That trader was Hein, who started building the platform that would become QuantMap when he was fifteen years old. Both he and Patriki saw an influencer credibility gap that they aimed to fill with a platform to allow retail investors to access data and tools often thought to be exclusive to bigger firms.
QuantMap bills itself as a charting and analysis tool that also offers users feeds on market data, options flows, and live news that could impact trades.
There's also a community element, and the two begin every weekday with a live trading stream on Discord using QuantMap's tools. Hein said this helps traders and potential users see what the platform can do. It's also a response to finance influencers who he says post unverified screenshots of gains or push trading strategies without anything to show that they work.
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"I don't want to see a broker statement," he said. "I want them to show me live trading whatever they do, their strategy, their system, their software, however they do it. If they are live doing it in front of you, that can't be faked. And that's what we do at QuantMap."
Hein recalled joining various Discord communities and signing up for online trading courses when he was younger.
"I had to find the right community and figure out what actually worked in the markets. That's when I kind of decided to follow like the banks and the hedge funds."
Hein and Patriki launched QuantMap in early 2026 with a developer acquaintance after spending years building it.
Hein and Patriki say they want their platform to democratize quantitative analysis, allowing regular traders to find their edge in a market that's constantly changing which the biggest players with the best tools have the advantage.
"We are visualizing the same quantitative data that the average person cannot see, using the formulas that my co-founders have developed over time, as well as what we've learned speaking to former quants at different hedge funds and trading desks," Patriki noted.
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Published: June 27, 2026 at 01:18PM on Source: RED MAG
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