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Rui Wang

Founder

Founder at EdotEnv

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedEdotEnv · YC

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About

Rui Wang is the founder and CEO of EdotEnv, which builds environments and harnesses and post-trains LLMs on quant-trading-inspired tasks to improve their general research abilities. He previously worked as a quant at G-Research and studied Applied Mathematics at ETH Zürich.

Founder at EdotEnvYC S26

Intro paths

YC

Rui went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran EdotEnv's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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EdotEnv's investors · 3

Twelve BelowNew York · $1M – $3M checksVela PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $500K checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at EdotEnv

MZMichael Zhang
Michael ZhangFounder

Experience

  1. EdotEnvCEOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, CA
  2. G-ResearchQuantitative Analystcurrent2022 — presentGreater London
  3. VontobelFront Office Quant2022Zurich, Switzerland
  4. UBSQuant Intern for Master Thesis2020 — 2021Zurich, Switzerland
  5. Ulm UniversityTutor for Computer Science2017 — 2018Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Skills & more

Data ScienceMachine LearningMathematical ModellingFinancial MathematicsAcrylic PaintingPython (Programming Language)1SQLAzure DatabricksJavaR

Languages Chinese · English · French · German

  • Actuary Certificates — DAV (German Actuary Association)

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Rui Wang?
Rui Wang is the founder and CEO of EdotEnv, which builds environments and harnesses and post-trains LLMs on quant-trading-inspired tasks to improve their general research abilities. He previously worked as a quant at G-Research and studied Applied Mathematics at ETH Zürich.
Where does Rui Wang work?
Rui Wang is Founder of EdotEnv.
What companies did Rui Wang found?
Rui Wang founded EdotEnv.
Where did Rui Wang go to school?
Rui Wang studied at ETH Zürich (Master's degree, Quantitative Finance); Ulm University (Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics).

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