About
Lucas Schneider has worked in credit securitization at Barclays in London and held a research leadership position at a web3 hedge fund focused on infrastructure and decentralized finance. He is pursuing a PhD in machine learning for gene editing from Oxford.
Co-Founder and CTO at CatamaranYC S23
Intro paths
YC
Lucas went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Catamaran's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Lucas can intro founders to Catamaran's investors below.
Catamaran's investors · 1
Co-founders at Catamaran
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Benedict AltierFounder
Experience
- CatX CapitalCo-Founder and CTO2023 — 2025
- Walden Bridge CapitalHead of Research2021 — 2023
- Barclays Investment BankAnalyst Credit Structuring Solutions2020 — 2021London, United Kingdom
- McKinsey & CompanyIntern Risk Practice2019Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany
- Barclays Investment BankSummer Analyst Trading & Structuring2019London, United Kingdom
- Deutsche BankSummer Analyst Global Markets2018Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany
- Diehl GroupIntern Group Controlling and Group Treasury2018Nürnberg Area, Germany
- KPMGIntern Deal Advisory - Valuation2017Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany
Skills & more
Finance2Trading1Trading StrategiesData ScienceStatisticsRisk ManagementMachine LearningFront-end DevelopmentSolidityMicrosoft Office8Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)6Python9
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RSPSSBloombergMATLABPython (Programming Language)C++HTMLJavaScriptLeadershipStructuringLanguages English · French · German
- Machine Learning Scientist with Python — DataCamp
- AWS Fundamentals: Going Cloud-Native (by AWS) — Coursera
- Python for Financial Analysis and Algorithmic Trading — Udemy
- Machine Learning (by Stanford University) — Coursera
From Lucas's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Lucas Schneider?
- Lucas Schneider has worked in credit securitization at Barclays in London and held a research leadership position at a web3 hedge fund focused on infrastructure and decentralized finance. He is pursuing a PhD in machine learning for gene editing from Oxford.
- Where does Lucas Schneider work?
- Lucas Schneider is Co-Founder and CTO of Catamaran.
- What companies did Lucas Schneider found?
- Lucas Schneider founded Catamaran.
- Where did Lucas Schneider go to school?
- Lucas Schneider studied at University of Oxford (DPhil, Computer Science); Y Combinator (S23); The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (Master of Science (MSc), Finance).
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