Prodigy Research YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Prodigy Research went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 batch as a Fintech company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2026
Industry: Fintech
Location: San Francisco
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Michael WangFounder/CEO
Yuhua WangFounder/CTO

What Prodigy Research does

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 on a trading desk 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.

Prodigy Research's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Prodigy Research, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Prodigy Research

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Training the world's best AI model for quant finance.

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We are building the foundation AI model for quantitative finance. Our product is a deep learning-based trading system that autonomously generates trading signals and executes trades in live markets. During our YC batch, the model doubled our capital in live trading while major indices were flat.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where both founders are located and it's the hub for AI and fintech talent.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Prodigy Research YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Prodigy Research's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Prodigy Research would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.