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Prodigy Research launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

Training the world's best foundation model for quantitative finance.

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Fintech
Team size
2
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

prodigy.markets ↗

See their funding details ↗

Prodigy Research on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Prodigy is the frontier AI trading research lab. We've trained the world's best foundation model for quantitative finance. We've already achieved more than 100% returns in live trading over the course of our YC batch, doubling our capital while major indices were flat. Our founders previously worked at Jane Street, trained frontier AI models at Google DeepMind and shipped cutting-edge AI at Apple to billions of customers. Join us as we use AI to solve the market. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Prodigy Research is an AI research lab training the world's best foundation model for quantitative trading. We are trading live in the financial markets and have generated index-beating risk-adjusted returns." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Michael Wang, Founder/CEO: Founder and CEO at Prodigy Research (YC S26). Previously Senior Researcher at DeepMind, training and shipping AI models powering Google products with billions of monthly users. Before that, worked on a trading desk at Jane Street, one of the most prestigious and profitable trading firms in the world. (source)
  • Yuhua Wang, Founder/CTO: Founder and CTO at Prodigy Research (YC S26). Previously shipped cutting-edge AI models and agents at Apple to billions of customers. Before that, built Salesforce's flagship AI platform serving hundreds of millions of user requests every day. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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Where else to launch Prodigy Research

  • Product Hunt ↗
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  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • ProductLed ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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