Mnemonic Labs (YC F26) launches to train a foundation model for quant trading
ycombinator · x · 2026-11-14
Y Combinator retweets the launch of Mnemonic Labs (YC F26), a "neolab" training a foundation model for quant trading that learns directly from market activity. The team says it built its training pipeline and model architecture in under 6 weeks, with a current training run using over 25TB of tokens.
The founders are brothers and MIT graduates with Olympiad finals credentials (5x USACO combined): Kalki made $20M in annual PnL at 22 at Tower Research, while Videh was the youngest quant at Citadel at 19. They say they've spent the past decade through quant's evolution from linear models to trees and now neural networks.
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