YC Spring 2026 (P26) founder

Michael Royzen

Founder of Standard Signal, Hedge fund where AI researches and executes every trade end-to-end

Company

Michael Royzen is listed as a founder of Standard Signal. 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.

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Public posts and activity attributed directly to this founder.

  1. LinkedIn

    Walls of text are so 2022. On Phind, every answer is now an interactive mini-app. It’s a step towards their vision of creating a personal internet just for you. Congrats on the launch and $10.4M… | Y Combinator | 23 comments

    On Phind, every answer is now an interactive mini-app.

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    Our hedge fund been trading live for some time now and has beaten many industry benchmarks. Today we launch with YC: https://www.ycombin...

    Our hedge fund been trading live for some time now and has beaten many industry benchmarks. Today we launch with YC: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QdC-standard-signal-hedge-fund-where-ai-researches-and-executes-every-trade

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    OpenAI's new model with cyber capabilities gate-kept to a select few HACKS Huggingface during benchmarking.

    This is wild. OpenAI's new model with cyber capabilities gate-kept to a select few HACKS Huggingface during benchmarking. But Huggingface couldn't defend against the attack with an OpenAI model because they weren't in the select few! They kept getting "safety" refusals. So,

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    Congrats @johnschulman2 and team, this is an incredibly important achievement.

    Congrats @johnschulman2 and team, this is an incredibly important achievement. The path towards safe and reliable AGI relies on open science and a maximally distributed deep understanding of AI’s benefits and its risks. There are some who like to say that if frontier AI is gate

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    It's disappointing to see so many people dunking on someone who just got wiped out.

    It's disappointing to see so many people dunking on someone who just got wiped out. Go touch grass, everyone runs their own race. I'm wishing him the best as he rebuilds.

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    Banning open source models would be a critical mistake.

    Banning open source models would be a critical mistake. The key advantage of open source is not lower cost, but better results and IP sovereignty. Startups fine-tune these models on their own data (thereby Americanizing them) and then host them in America (or elsewhere in the

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    Everyone has the right to own their means of AI production.

    Everyone has the right to own their means of AI production. That’s why open weights are so important. Not so much cost, but the ability to customize, tinker, and run on hardware that you own or control.