Trata warned that scammers had impersonated employees and posted fake job openings, and said official emails would only come from trytrata.com.
SourcePublic company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Trata is a New York-based YC W25 startup building an AI-powered, subscription-based buyside research desk for hedge funds, combining anonymous analyst interviews, transcripted debate, and compliance review into a searchable research library.
Primary product
An AI-powered anonymous research desk and transcript library for hedge funds.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI-powered investment research for hedge funds
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Pre-Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Apr 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Apr 2025 · Y Combinator
Small, research-obsessed, compliance-conscious team with a New York hub; hiring leans toward high-agency operators and technical people from hedge funds, consulting, and other fast-paced backgrounds, and the product emphasizes anonymity, manual vetting, and working directly with hedge-fund compliance teams.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public job posts show approximately $125K-$200K plus 0.25%-0.75% equity for design roles, $125K-$150K plus 0.15%-0.50% equity for Chief of Staff, $15-$30/hour for Business Ops Intern, and $10K-$17K/month for Research Scientist Intern.
Pricing
Subscription-based B2B access; public YC copy references a $6,000 subscription example.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$495K-$1.4M
Estimated monthly visits
2.1K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Eric Cho on LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Eric Cho said the company bought the trata.com domain and explained the name's origin as 'tra-iling da-ta.'
Eric Cho on LinkedIn · Dec 2025
Eric Cho said Trata had grown from 10 to 125+ funds contributing and that the company was training voice agents from those conversations.
Trata (YC W25) on LinkedIn · Apr 2025
Trata warned that scammers had impersonated employees and posted fake jobs, and directed users to verify all communication through trytrata.com.
Bloomberg Opinion · Mar 2025
Bloomberg's Matt Levine mentioned Trata in Money Stuff, which the company later said drove a traffic spike and wider awareness.
Y Combinator on LinkedIn · Feb 2025
Launch post announcing Trata's anonymous buy-side research desk, with 2,000+ public companies targeted and founders Eric Cho, William Gao, and Alexander Chen.