3x founder

Michael Royzen

Founder & CEO at Standard Signal (YC P26)

Founder

Standard Signal· Spring 2026 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @michaelroyzen

2026Founder· Standard Signal

Founder · since 2017

Company

Standard Signal

Role

Founder & CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

New York, NY

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Standard Signal

Hedge fund where AI researches and executes every trade end-to-end

Spring 2026

Experience

Career

Standard Signal
Founder
Founder & CEO · New York, NY · 2026 – Present
2026
phind.com
Co-founder
Co-founder & CEO · San Francisco, California, United States · 2022 – 2026
2022
The University of Texas at Austin
NLP Researcher · Austin, Texas, United States · 2021 – 2022
2021
Lyft
Machine Learning Software Engineering Intern · 2021
2021
SmartLens
Founder
Founder & CEO · Austin, TX · 2017 – 2020
2017
Cloudflare, Inc.
Systems Engineering Intern · Austin, Texas Area · 2019
2019
Microsoft
Research Intern · Redmond, WA · 2017
2017

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.