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Event Horizon Labs

AI-native hedge fund using agents to automate quant research—at scale

San Francisco

4 employees

Finance

Pre-seed · $500K

About Event Horizon Labs

We operate a platform that automates quantitative research — generating hypotheses, backtesting strategies, and analyzing results. Hundreds of agents run in parallel and learn from what the others discovered. We are building a fund that scales on agents, not researchers.

Open positions (2)

Founding Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA, US

StandoutYBacked by Y Combinator · P26

“LeBron has an agent. Why don’t you?”

— Now you have one too.

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Founding Research Engineer

San Francisco, CA, US

Company details

Team Size4

LocationSan Francisco

IndustryFinance

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Liquid 2 Ventures

Pillar VC

Founders

OC

Owen Colegrove

2nd YC Founder, prev @ Algofi, Former quant @ Citadel, PhD in Particle Physics, research @ CERN (UCSB, 2019).

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.