Centauri AI

About

Centauri AI is a modern ETL and Data Science platform for banks and investment firms, starting with Structured Finance. Financial firms heavily rely on Excel, PDF, and PPT files to exchange complex asset details, leading analysts to spend hours crunching the files and extracting insights. Moreover, these data files and reports cannot be easily reused due to poor data infrastructure. Powered by AI, our product cuts hours of data wrangling work down to minutes and makes it possible to query past data easily. This helps firms evaluate assets faster and win more deals. Since launching last month, we've started a pilot with a brokerage team at a public investment bank that now uses our product daily. Aiming to serve over 100,000 investment teams needing complex data analysis for alternative investments, this opens up a potential $5 billion market.

Founders

He LuFounder

He is the co-founder and CEO of Centauri AI with 9 years of experience in banking and capital market. Before Centauri AI, he was co-founder and CTO of Blue Water Fintech, which achieved $11M in annual net revenue before its acquisition in 2022. Previously, he managed five institutional fixed-income portfolios as a portfolio manager. He likes tennis and running. He is also a member of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office search and rescue team.

Milan ShenFounder

Milan is co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Centauri AI. Milan has expertise in Data and AI over 10 years with both research and product development. After obtaining a PhD in Statistics from Stanford, she led DS for Pricing and Forecasting powering over 1 million listings at Airbnb. More recently at Meta as a research scientist manager, she led the team to deploy Facebook Ads system’s first privacy-preserving AI solution (approx $0.5B+ yearly incremental revenue).

James WuFounder

James was a Director of Engineering at Tubi, hired the Platform Eng. Team, managed a >1500c autoscaling K8s cluster and oversaw costs for a $x0M/year tech budget. Principal Engineer at Minted as a full-stack DevSecOps developer. UC Berkeley Alum.