Kx Systems

KX Systems Inc.
Trade name	Kx Systems
Company type	Private
Industry	Software & Tech Services
Founded	1993 in Palo Alto, California
Founders	Janet Lustgarten; Arthur Whitney;
Headquarters	New York, New York, United States
Number of locations	14 offices (2018)
Area served	Asia; Europe; North America;
Key people	Ashok Reddy; (CEO); Eric Raab; (CTO); David Humphries; (COO);
Products	k; kdb+; q;
Parent	FD Technologies plc
Website	kx.com

KX is a privately owned software company that sells a time series database kdb+, used for financial modeling and data analysis, and its associated proprietary programming language q.

It was founded in 1993 by Janet Lustgarten and Arthur Whitney, the developer of the K programming language. In 2014, First Derivatives increased their ownership interest to 65 percent; in 2018, the company (now FD Technologies plc) announced plans to buy out the remaining shares of KX. KX has offices in New York City, London, England, Ireland, Germany, Australia, Singapore, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

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