Standard Signal
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About Standard Signal
YC company profile
Hedge fund where AI researches and executes every trade end-to-end
Standard Signal is the first hedge fund that researches and executes trades purely with AI. Our custom models discover and trade on new fundamental truths about the world before humans can.
- YC batch: Spring 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 1
- Location: New York City, NY
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Fintech
- Stage: Early
- YC partner: Pete Koomen
Founders
Michael Royzen — Founder/CEO
Founder & CEO at Standard Signal (YC P26), building the first hedge fund where AI runs everything from research to the actual trade execution end-to-end.
Previously co-founder & CEO at Phind (YC S22), where I built the first AI search engine and trained LLMs that beat GPT-4 on HumanEval (2024) and had the #1-ranked open-source coding model on Hugging Face for 6 months in 2023.
UT Austin Turing Scholar '22
Previously an undergrad NLP researcher, as well as ML at Lyft, Cloudflare, and Microsoft.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.