Dylan Iskandar is Co-Founder of Catalyst, a San Francisco-based AI fintech startup building autonomous trading agents that make sophisticated investing accessible to everyday retail investors.

A globally recognized classical pianist by age 4, Dylan conducted cybersecurity research for the U.S. Department of Defense throughout high school, then enrolled at Stanford University as a Jane Street scholar before leaving to co-found Catalyst.

Prior to Catalyst, Dylan gained experience at Jane Street as an AMP Scholar, completed software engineering internships at Amazon, and conducted NLP research at the Air Force Research Laboratory and hardware security research at Stanford's Robust Systems Research Lab.

Dylan co-founded Catalyst in 2025 alongside Justin Zheng, raising a $30M seed round led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Jump Trading, PeakXV, Lux Capital, AntiFund, Coinbase Ventures, and Premji Invest.

Catalyst's pilot program generated hundreds of millions of dollars in trading volume within just a few weeks, and the platform is now opening to retail investors with a vision to democratize quantitative trading for everyone.