# Spectre Intelligence

[Spectre Intelligence on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/spectre-intelligence)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://www.spectreintelligence.ai/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spectre-intelligence)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/spectre-intelligence-ai)
- [X](https://x.com/spectreintellig)

## About

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## YC company profile

We are a multi-strategy trading firm that trains AI traders.

Spectre Intelligence is a neotrading firm. We create AI traders instead of hiring human ones. Currently trading semis + bio.

- **YC batch:** Summer 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 2
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** Fintech
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** Biotech, Investing, Trading, Semiconductors
- **YC partner:** Ankit Gupta

## Founders

### Michelle Li — Founder/CEO

Co-founder and CEO at Spectre Intelligence, on leave from Harvard (I studied Economics & Biology and was originally class of '27). Previous research across generative protein language models, bacteriophages, CRISPR Cas9, and more. ISEF grand award winner, RSI and STS scholar.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-zhiya-li/) · [X](https://x.com/michellezli)

### Joshua Zyzak — Founder/CTO

Founder at Spectre Capital, CS and EE at Harvard, researched deep-RL controllers for quadruped robots and multimodal LLM-robotics

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-zyzak/)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spectre-intelligence) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Joshua Zyzak](https://hacklab.so/joshua-zyzak) — Founder/CTO (Present)
- [Michelle Li](https://hacklab.so/michelle-li) — Founder/CEO (Present)