Catalyst’s young founders raise $30 million to build supervised AI trading agents

Catalyst, founded in 2025 by Justin Zheng and Dylan Iskandar, has raised a $30 million seed round led by Sequoia, Fortune reports.

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Catalyst, founded in 2025 by Justin Zheng and Dylan Iskandar, has raised a $30 million seed round led by Sequoia, Fortune reports.

Its software turns an investor’s stated goal into a trading strategy, and each step needs human approval. Fortune reports that Zheng worked at Worldcoin from 2019 and Iskandar published cybersecurity research while still in high school. Users are being admitted from a waitlist.

This brief summarises the reporting by Fortune (staff reporting), published 8 October 2026. It is not original ZUAS Network reporting, and ZUAS Network has not independently verified the figures. Read the original for full details.

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  1. Fortune (staff reporting) October 8, 2026
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