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Spectre Intelligence

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

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

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Product & workflow

It doesn’t scale (and I no longer do it), but man, sweet gig that paid for some sushi (I’m reminiscent of the times we’d virtually connect to radio stations to get faster latency for sports broadcasts or set up transcription bots to trade earnings on Kalshi).

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-23

Founders & team

Previously Spectre Capital

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

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.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Joshua Zyzak

Founder/CTO

Founder at Spectre Capital, CS and EE at Harvard, researched deep-RL controllers for quadruped robots and multimodal LLM-robotics

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2026 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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