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Standard Signal
ActiveHedge fund where AI researches and executes every trade
Spring 2026Founded 20261 peopleNew York, NY, USA
AI insightcan contain mistakes
AI-Native Hedge FundTransactionalInvestors, institutional allocatorsMedium competition
Moat
Proprietary AI models discovering fundamental truths; trading edge compounds over time.
Key risk
Market efficiency limits alpha generation; regulatory scrutiny on AI trading; talent concentration risk.
Why now
AI surpasses human trading; LLMs unlock new fundamental discovery capabilities.
Competitors
Citadel, Renaissance Tech, Two Sigma, Bridgewater
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 · 1
Michael RoyzenFounder
Founder & CEO at Standard Signal (YC P26) Previously co-founder & CEO at Phind (YC S22) UT Austin Turing Scholar '22 Previously an undergrad NLP researcher, as well as ML at Lyft, Cloudflare, and Microsoft.
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