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Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Event Horizon Labs (EHL) is a San Francisco–based AI research lab and early-stage startup focused on autonomous research agents for markets. Public materials also show an adjacent open-source retrieval stack (R2R / SciPhi Cloud) and a very small, in-person founding team.
Primary product
Autonomous research agents for markets (quant research / agentic investing platform)
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI research lab / quantitative finance / algorithmic trading
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
proprietary quantitative trading / investing
open-source software
cloud software / SaaS
Funding
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre Seed Round · Apr 2024
Latest amount
$500K
Apr 2024 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Small, high-bar founding team; in-person San Francisco; PhD researchers and engineers; emphasizes shipping real systems and owning them end to end.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public job postings list roughly $150k-$250k base salary plus 0.25%-1% equity depending on role.
Benefits
real equity
founding roles
end-to-end ownership
in-person team in San Francisco
small team of high-bar researchers and engineers
Product & market
Pricing
Public pricing is not fully disclosed; the open-source R2R stack is self-hostable and has a cloud/free-tier offering, while the markets business is not publicly priced.
Differentiators
- —autonomous research agents for markets
- —hundreds of agents running in parallel
- —agent outputs compound into new hypotheses and strategies
- —open-source R2R with a Deep Research API
- —multi-step reasoning plus knowledge-graph generation
- —self-hostable software plus cloud deployment
Technology
Python
PyTorch
Go
Kubernetes
Ray
Spark
Kafka
Docker
Elasticsearch
LLM tooling
agent tooling
backtesting infrastructure
GitHub
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
1.3K
Latest news
Event Horizon Labs Research · Jan 2026
Research note on agentic execution design; argues that lighter coordination and less context can outperform heavier debate/coordination in some market-research settings.
Event Horizon Labs Research · Jan 2026
Examines the tradeoff between wall-clock time and token spend when scaling agent fleets in parallel.
Event Horizon Labs Research · Jan 2026
Research on using autonomous agents to study private trading activity and market microstructure on Hyperliquid.
Event Horizon Labs Research · Jan 2026
Research note on whether evolutionary / agentic loops can improve over noisy rewards in quantitative research workflows.
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