Centauri AI

The Modern ETL and Data Science Platform for Finance

Y CombinatorWinter 2024ActiveFintechAsset Management

What they do

Problem

Banks and investment firms waste hours manually extracting and wrangling complex asset data from Excel, PDF, and PPT files, and struggle to reuse that data due to poor infrastructure.

Solution

An AI-powered modern ETL and data science platform that automates data extraction and transformation from financial documents and enables querying and reuse of historical asset data.

Who it's for

Analysts and investment teams at banks, brokerages, and investment firms (enterprise financial institutions).

Founders

He Lu

Founder

He is the co-founder and CEO of Centauri AI with 9 years of experience in banking and capital market. Before Centauri AI, he was co-founder and CTO of Blue Water Fintech, which achieved $11M in annual net revenue before its acquisition in 2022. Previously, he managed five institutional fixed-income portfolios as a portfolio manager. He likes tennis and running. He is also a member of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office search and rescue team.

Milan Shen

Founder

Milan is co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Centauri AI. Milan has expertise in Data and AI over 10 years with both research and product development. After obtaining a PhD in Statistics from Stanford, she led DS for Pricing and Forecasting powering over 1 million listings at Airbnb. More recently at Meta as a research scientist manager, she led the team to deploy Facebook Ads system’s first privacy-preserving AI solution (approx $0.5B+ yearly incremental revenue).

James Wu

Founder

James was a Director of Engineering at Tubi, hired the Platform Eng. Team, managed a >1500c autoscaling K8s cluster and oversaw costs for a $x0M/year tech budget. Principal Engineer at Minted as a full-stack DevSecOps developer. UC Berkeley Alum.