Centauri AI
The Modern ETL and Data Science Platform for Finance
About Centauri AI
Centauri AI is a modern ETL and Data Science platform for banks and investment firms, starting with Structured Finance.
Financial firms heavily rely on Excel, PDF, and PPT files to exchange complex asset details, leading analysts to spend hours crunching the files and extracting insights. Moreover, these data files and reports cannot be easily reused due to poor data infrastructure.
Powered by AI, our product cuts hours of data wrangling work down to minutes and makes it possible to query past data easily. This helps firms evaluate assets faster and win more deals.
Since launching last month, we've started a pilot with a brokerage team at a public investment bank that now uses our product daily. Aiming to serve over 100,000 investment teams needing complex data analysis for alternative investments, this opens up a potential $5 billion market.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Pre-seed
Investors
Founders
James Wu
James was a Director of Engineering at Tubi, hired the Platform Eng. Team, managed a >1500c autoscaling K8s cluster and oversaw costs for a $x0M/year tech budget. Principal Engineer at Minted as a full-stack DevSecOps developer. UC Berkeley Alum.
He Lu
9 years of experience in banking and capital markets. Previously co-founder and CTO of Blue Water Fintech (acquired 2022, $11M ARR). Managed five institutional fixed-income portfolios as a portfolio manager.
LinkedInMilan Shen
PhD in Statistics from Stanford. Led Data Science for Pricing and Forecasting at Airbnb (1M+ listings). Research scientist manager at Meta, deployed Facebook Ads' first privacy-preserving AI solution (~$0.5B+ yearly incremental revenue).
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.