Overview · 2026

Real mentors. Real markets. Reaching further.

AI that extends one mentor's reach into every student's daily practice. Built for clubs and classrooms that learn together.

StockArena is designed for financial mentorship and demystifies investment and artificial intelligence to level the playing field for the next generation. It is a personalized learning system, fueled by AI trained on the expertise of volunteer mentors and wired to every move of every player. With live video conferencing and access to real-time news and market data, it helps build skills and knowledge for the future through friendly competition between peers. Each mentor is competing too. A contest within a contest.

A fund. A mentor. Six months.

01 · The Fund

One mentor. A small cohort of students.

A finance professional, a teacher, a parent with markets experience. Small by design — built around the mentor-student relationship.

02 · The Contest

$1M virtual. Real markets. Six months.

Real-time markets across US, Hong Kong, London, and Tokyo. Students learn by doing — executing trades and applying the investment philosophies and techniques of working professionals.

03 · The AI

Trained on how the mentor thinks.

Reviews each portfolio with up-to-date feedback, risk analysis, and educational prompts that help each student think through the trade types best suited to them.

04 · The Cadence

Daily app use. Weekly video sessions.

Sessions are recorded; what gets taught keeps teaching. The library grows every season.

A curriculum that grows with every season.

The learning system runs continuously. Every player has access to:

  • A personalized news feed tied to their portfolio
  • A glossary of investing terms
  • Structured lessons
  • A video library of recorded mentor sessions

On the roadmap is mentor authorship — tools to curate the library, sequence the content, and shape each season around the mentor's own teaching. We're building those tools in partnership with the educators who'll use them, so every release answers a real need from a real cohort. The library grows richer every season; the system becomes more theirs with every choice.

Built from the ground up in 2026.

StockArena is an enterprise-grade solution built to scale — combining new capabilities from financial technology, AI, and live video into a single integrated platform. Mentor-led video, an AI calibrated to that mentor's own judgment, real-time global markets, and a library that compounds every season — every piece designed and engineered together.

If someone is willing to mentor, we want to make it easy for them to say yes.
— Russell Delacour, Founder · StockArena / BKNY Labs

We grow through partnership.

StockArena is running today with a founding cohort of students from NYC public schools, and other cohorts launch in the New York area soon. Three kinds of partners matter most right now.

Foundations & funders

Early support funds pilot expansion, mentor recruitment, and the engineering that brings StockArena to more communities.

Schools & education networks

After-school programs, charter networks, and district pilots deployable in pods of 8–30 students.

Mentor organizations

We supply the platform and the structure; you bring the mentors and the students.

Technology shaped by the educator.

We believe responsible AI in education is about authorship. Every response a student gets should carry a real educator's reasoning, voice, and philosophy — and the student should know whose. Every part of the platform is built around that author — a real mentor at the center of every season.

Behind this is a simpler conviction. Financial fluency belongs to every student. We built the platform to help realize this by connecting students and mentors through live video, a learning system that builds with each season, peers running portfolios alongside them, and an AI shaped by that mentor's teaching.

A founding cohort is live with students from NYC public schools. Two more launch this year. The next season is taking shape.

Build it with us.