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Spectre Intelligence launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

We are a multi-strategy trading firm that trains AI traders.

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

Founders

spectreintelligence.ai ↗

See their funding details ↗

Spectre Intelligence on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Spectre Intelligence is a neotrading firm. We create AI traders instead of hiring human ones. Currently trading semis + bio. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Spectre Intelligence is an independent research and trading firm focused on reasoning under uncertainty." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Michelle Li, Founder/CEO: Co-founder and CEO at Spectre Intelligence, on leave from Harvard (I studied Economics & Biology and was originally class of '27). Previous research across generative protein language models, bacteriophages, CRISPR Cas9, and more. ISEF grand award winner, RSI and STS scholar. (source)
  • Joshua Zyzak, Founder/CTO: Founder at Spectre Capital, CS and EE at Harvard, researched deep-RL controllers for quadruped robots and multimodal LLM-robotics (source)

Timeline

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

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Where else to launch Spectre Intelligence

  • 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
  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • 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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