Synthetic financial data and event forecasting YC S26

San Francisco
Joined June 2026
Frontier LLMs are impressive at many things. Trading is not one of them. We had Fable, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.5 Pro, and Grok 4.5 each run a portfolio for ~1.6 years on a synthetic stock market they've never seen. All of them lost money. Think you can beat the benchmark? Try it 👇
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David Data retweeted
Taking the leap is hard, but there's joy in the unknown. @AdiKulkarni6 and I spent senior year pivoting through 4 ideas (including an AI hedge fund). Now we're building @davidhfdata — synthetic market data for superhuman AI trading. Excited to join @ycombinator S26!
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David Data retweeted
Superhuman AI traders won't be trained on the past. They'll be trained on every possible future. That's what @sima_alexx and I are building at @davidhfdata. Excited to join @ycombinator S26
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We spent $98,151.86 on stock markets that don't exist. Because your trading agent already memorized the ones that do. 2008, 2020, every real crash…it's all in the training data. David Data gives you synthetic markets your model has never seen.
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Backtest on markets that never happened, agree or disagree?
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Real history is one roll of the dice. We let you roll it a million times.
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we want to help-max you if you're AI trading maxxing and don't have enough data maxxing or want to evaluate-max on future historically maxxed scenario maxing. We provide synthetic-maxxed financial-maxing data-maxxing API to the max (rate limit max) and we have AI cofounder Max.
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