Yijia Liang

Yijia Liang co-founded Compound to build AI tools for financial analysts. He previously invested in software companies at Coatue and worked in research at Y Combinator’s Continuity fund. That background informs his interest in the less glamorous parts of financial work, including gathering documents and getting numbers into a usable spreadsheet.

At Compound, Liang describes agents that participate in deal-team email threads and operate on Office documents in the background. Running several analysts’ tasks at once requires an agent to work with the underlying document and check its output without waiting for someone to click through the interface.