About
Andy Zhang is co-founder and CTO of Tower, an M&A software company. He previously served as founding engineer at ArenaX Labs, a Web3 AI gaming startup that raised a Series A, and conducted reinforcement learning research at an investment trust; he holds degrees in computer science from the University of Waterloo and business administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.
Co-Founder at TowerYC W24
Intro paths
YC
Andy went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Tower's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Andy can intro founders to Tower's investors below.
Tower's investors Β· 5
Co-founders at Tower
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Adam DorfmanFounder
Experience
- Tower (YC W24)Co-Founder & CTOcurrent2024 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- AI ArenaFounding Engineer2021 β 2024
- OPTrustQuantitative Analyst, Machine Learning2021
- OPTrustInvestment Analyst, Machine Learning Research2020
- Waratah Capital Advisors Ltd.Private Equity Analyst2019Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- CI Investments Inc. (Cambridge Global Asset Management)Research Analyst2019Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Blackhawk NetworkMarketing Analyst Intern2018Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- China Merchants BankCorporate Banking Intern2017Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
Skills & more
Microsoft Excel13Microsoft Word11Microsoft PowerPoint12Microsoft Office11Python10C8C++7Adobe Photoshop3VBA4Bloomberg Terminal4HTML/CSS2SQL3
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Microsoft AccessMATLABTensorFlowKerasJavaScalaMapReducePyTorchProject ManagementResearchFinancial ModelingMarketingLanguages Chinese (Mandarin) Β· English Β· French
- Derivatives Fundamentals Course β Canadian Securities Institute
- Machine Learning for Trading (Google Cloud & New York Institute of Finance) β Coursera
- Deep Learning Specialization (deeplearning.ai) β Coursera
- Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) β Bloomberg
- Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part II (Columbia University) β Coursera
- Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part I (Columbia University) β Coursera
- Machine Learning (Stanford University) β Coursera
- MATLAB Onramp β MathWorks
- Bloomberg Analytics Certification (BAC) β Prism Resources - Wilfrid Laurier University
- French Immersion Certificate β Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB)
From Andy's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Andy Zhang?
- Andy Zhang is co-founder and CTO of Tower, an M&A software company. He previously served as founding engineer at ArenaX Labs, a Web3 AI gaming startup that raised a Series A, and conducted reinforcement learning research at an investment trust; he holds degrees in computer science from the University of Waterloo and business administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.
- Where does Andy Zhang work?
- Andy Zhang is Co-Founder of Tower.
- What companies did Andy Zhang found?
- Andy Zhang founded Tower.
- Where did Andy Zhang go to school?
- Andy Zhang studied at Y Combinator (Winter 24 Batch); University of Waterloo (Honours Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS)); Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University (Honours Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Finance Concentration).
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