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Known for these resultsRole43%Role is parsed from founder titles in yc.db. Known for 43% of these rows — the rest have no title at all, mostly 2019–2023. Those rows stay in the result and are counted as Unknown, never as No.Bio100%Bio coverage: 100% of these founders have a bio on their YC profile. Every bio-derived facet (ex-company, school, credentials, discipline) is Unknown for the rest.Ex-company100%Ex-company is matched from bios with employment context (ex-, formerly, worked at). 100% of these rows have at least one match.School57%School is matched from bios, case-sensitive for acronyms. 57% of these rows have at least one match.
- Michael Royzen@michaelroyzenFounder/CEO · Standard SignalX26Fintech · New York
- Tanya VermaFounder/CEO · TinfoilX25B2B · San Francisco
- Frances LiuFounder · PromptlessW25B2B · San Francisco
- Paul KimFounder/CTO · SilogyW24B2B · New York
- Michael Royzen@michaelroyzenFounder · PhindS22Consumer · San Francisco
- Brendan Irvine-Broque@irvinebroqueFounder · AwesometalkW14Consumer · San Francisco
- George Tankersley@gtank__Founder · AudoboxS13B2B
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Michael RoyzenStandard Signal2× YCFounder/CEOSpring 2026FintechNew York, United States1https://x.com/michaelroyzenTanya VermaTinfoilFounder/CEOSpring 2025B2BSan Francisco, United States5—Frances LiuPromptlessFounderWinter 2025B2BSan Francisco, United States5—Paul KimSilogyFounder/CTOWinter 2024B2BNew York, United States3—Michael RoyzenPhind2× YCFounderSummer 2022ConsumerSan Francisco, United States4https://x.com/michaelroyzenBrendan Irvine-BroqueAwesometalkFounderWinter 2014ConsumerSan Francisco, United States2https://x.com/irvinebroqueGeorge TankersleyAudoboxFounderSummer 2013B2BUnknown0https://x.com/gtank__
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Michael Royzen
Founder·Phind
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder· not in title
Team size4
BatchSummer 2022
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Company statusInactive
StageEarly
BIO
Founder & CEO at Standard Signal (YC P26), building the first hedge fund where AI runs everything from research to the actual trade execution end-to-end. Previously co-founder & CEO at Phind (YC S22), where I built the first AI search engine and trained LLMs that beat GPT-4 on HumanEval (2024) and had the #1-ranked open-source coding model on Hugging Face for 6 months in 2023. UT Austin Turing Scholar '22 Previously an undergrad NLP researcher, as well as ML at Lyft, Cloudflare, and Microsoft.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
Credentialsnone mentioned
DisciplineResearcherKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
2× YC founder
- S22PhindInactive · this entry
- X26Standard SignalActive
COMPANY CONTEXT
PhindAI search engine
Co-foundersJustin Wei
