Standard Signal

Hedge fund where AI researches and executes every trade

Y CombinatorSpring 2026ActiveFintechAsset ManagementFinanceAI

What they do

Problem

Traditional hedge funds rely on slower, human-driven research and execution, limiting their ability to identify and act on new market insights quickly.

Solution

It uses custom AI models to autonomously research, generate theses, and execute trades without human intervention.

Who it's for

Investors and allocators seeking exposure to an AI-driven hedge fund strategy.

Founders

Michael Royzen

Founder

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.

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