Prodigy Research
Training the world's best foundation model for quantitative finance.
About Prodigy Research
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 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.
Founders
Michael Wang
Founder/CEO
Founder and CEO at Prodigy Research (YC S26). Previously Senior Researcher at DeepMind, training and shipping AI models powering Google products with 2B+ monthly users. Before that, built strategies generating >$3B annually on a Jane Street trading desk.
Yuhua Wang
Founder/CTO
Founder and CTO at Prodigy Research (YC S26). Previously shipped cutting-edge AI models and agents at Apple to billions of customers. Before that, built Salesforce's flagship AI platform serving hundreds of millions of user requests every day.