Xiaoyu Li is the co-founder of Attimet, a YC-backed AI research lab focused on financial markets. A former quantitative trader at Optiver, she specialized in options market-making and established a medium-frequency algorithmic trading team. Her unique career path began at Yale School of Medicine before she pivoted to finance.
Her background is marked by exceptional analytical and mathematical skills, evidenced by having skipped multiple grades in school. This innate aptitude for complex systems has been a consistent thread throughout her journey from medicine to high-frequency trading and now to AI-driven financial technology entrepreneurship in San Francisco.
Unique fact: Xiaoyu is a Yale Medical School dropout who successfully transitioned into the world of quantitative finance and AI startups.
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