About
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.
Founders
Michael Royzen· Founder/CEOFounder & 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.
Product launches · 1 launch
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.
Change history · 8 recorded
- August 30, 2026
- Founder profile updated08:01 PM
- Launches refreshed08:01 PM
- Relocated to New York City08:01 PM
- YC partner updated08:01 PM
- June 21, 2026
- Location updated07:00 PM
- June 13, 2026
- Pitch updated07:00 PM
- June 7, 2026
- YC partner updated08:01 PM
- Founder profile updated08:01 PM