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EdotEnv launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

A Quant Neolab building self-improving agents from quant trading

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
2
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

edotenv.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

EdotEnv on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: A Quant Neolab building toward RSI by leveraging markets as self-improving research environments. They work with frontier AI labs and academic groups building research harnesses, evaluation benchmarks, and post-training environments. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "EdotEnv builds RL environments from financial market data for self-improving intelligence." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Rui Wang, Founder/CEO: I am Rui (pronounced "ray" like the fish). CEO of EdotEnv, a quant neolab making LLMs better at general research. We build environments, harnesses, and post-train models on quant-trading-inspired tasks. Ex-quant at G-Research. Applied Mathematics at ETH Zürich. (source)
  • Michael Zhang, Founder/CTO: CTO at EdotEnv, a quant neolab building toward RSI. Previously@Etched: Designed LLM Inference System for SOHU chips Previously@TransmarketGroup: Built automated high-frequency option trading strategies ETH Zürich Alumni (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
  2. 2026-08-04: "Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research" posted to Hacker News by Mzzzzz, 39 points and 34 comments. (source)

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Where else to launch EdotEnv

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • 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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