Yijia, Peter and Yao are saving a seat for Compound's first designer.

The problem

Analysts still spend late nights crunching numbers and spreading comps.

Compound makes AI agents that turn data rooms and filings into models, decks and memos.

The people

• Yijia Liang · Co-founder

  • Worked at Coatue, Y Combinator and Bain before Compound

• Peter J Liu · Co-founder

  • Research scientist at Google DeepMind, formerly Google Brain, working on language models
  • Earlier led machine learning for Gmail spam as a software engineer
  • Area chair for ACL and EMNLP on language modeling and summarization

• Yao Zhao · Co-founder

  • Worked at Google Brain and DeepMind before Compound

So far

Its site says firms using it manage over $3T in assets.

No outside funding reported; a 2025 Digit article said the company was bootstrapped.

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