The start-up translates an intention expressed in natural language into an investment strategy, executed after human validation. Its pilot is said to have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in volume.
Founded in 2025 by Zheng (25), who worked for Worldcoin, and Iskandar (21), a former cybersecurity prodigy, Catalyst has completed a $30 million seed round led by Sequoia, along with Jump Trading, Peak XV, Lux Capital, Coinbase and Premji Invest. The start-up develops agents that turn a commonly formulated intention into a trading strategy and then execute it once the user agrees.
A pilot reserved for seasoned traders
The ambition is for the user to simply express a thesis, with the agents taking care of finding the right instruments, optimizing costs and placing orders at the right time. A first pilot, open to active traders, is said to have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in volume in two weeks; the waiting list is starting to open up before a wider launch.
Faced with fears that this type of tool will encourage speculation, in the age of prediction markets and cryptocurrencies, the founders assure that they are not building a casino and are betting on personalized educational tools explaining the risks to each user.
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