This paper, synthesized from the KN Hack 2026 Speaker Day and Research Challenge (June 4–6, Cholula; 200+ practitioners), traces the modern investment process stage by stage — feature engineering, strategy design, trading, portfolio management, and entrepreneurship — and shows they’re all the same scientific loop applied to a different problem.
Over 36 hours, 35+ teams from across Mexico’s leading universities and practitioners built and defended real strategies on the KaxaNuk Research Lab.