Spectre Intelligence YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Spectre Intelligence 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: FintechAsset Management
Location: San Francisco
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Michelle LiFounder/CEO
Joshua ZyzakFounder/CTO

What Spectre Intelligence does

Spectre Intelligence is a neotrading firm. We create AI traders instead of hiring human ones. Currently trading semis + bio.

Spectre Intelligence's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Spectre Intelligence, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Spectre Intelligence

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We train AI traders to run a multi-strategy trading firm.

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

We are building a neotrading firm. Instead of hiring human traders, we train AI agents to trade public equities. Right now, our AI traders focus on semiconductors and biotech names. We're a tech-first asset manager: the core product is the AI trader, and the business is showing it can beat the market.

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

San Francisco, CA, USA. We'll stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where both the best trading firms and AI labs gather. Staying here lets us pull talent and ideas from both.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Spectre Intelligence YC application?

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