Michelle Li is Co-Founder and CEO of Spectre Intelligence, a YC-backed neotrading firm that trains AI agents to replace human traders across multi-strategy capital deployment.

Michelle studied Economics and Biology at Harvard (Class of 2027) before taking a leave of absence to build Spectre Intelligence, having previously started a hedge fund from her college dorm.

An ISEF Grand Award winner and RSI and STS scholar, Michelle brings a rare combination of deep scientific rigor and entrepreneurial drive to the intersection of AI and financial markets.

Michelle has conducted research across generative protein language models, bacteriophages, and CRISPR Cas9, and co-founded Spectre Intelligence in 2026 alongside Joshua Zyzak as part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch.

Spectre Intelligence deploys real capital through AI traders, capturing every decision and reasoning trace so its agents continuously learn and compound from outcomes, pioneering a new model for autonomous trading firms.