# Andres Carranza

> Andres Carranza is the co-founder and CEO of Luzid, a San Francisco startup building David, an agentic AI copilot that orchestrates SAP and Salesforce implementations. A Stanford dropout and former AI researcher, he interned at NASA, Harvard, MIT and was the youngest quantitative trader in Two Sigma's history before leaving school to build a company that aims to turn months-long enterprise software rollouts into something closer to a software update.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Luzid
- **Organizations:** Luzid, Stanford University, Two Sigma, NASA
- **Education:** Undergraduate (left before completing; member of the STAIR / Trustworthy AI Research lab), Stanford University
- **Known for:** Youngest quantitative trader in Two Sigma's history, International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) finalist, Research presented at top-tier ML conferences including ICML and ICLR

## Career timeline

- **High school** — Researched deep learning for exoplanet discovery at NASA
- **Undergraduate** — Conducted AI research at Stanford (STAIR lab), Harvard and MIT in mechanistic interpretability and time-series forecasting
- **Early career** — Became the youngest quantitative trader in Two Sigma's history
- **2025** — Co-founded Luzid (formerly Luzidos) with Matheus Dias after meeting at Stanford; left school to build the company
- **2025-09** — Luzid closed a $500K seed round and launched David for SAP and Salesforce integrators; named an SAP Build Partner

## Achievements

- Youngest quantitative trader in Two Sigma's history
- International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) finalist
- Research presented at top-tier ML conferences including ICML and ICLR
- Conducted AI research at NASA, Harvard, MIT and Stanford
- Co-founded Luzid and became an SAP Build Partner (Open Ecosystem)

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Luzid raised a $500K seed round, publicly launched David for SAP and Salesforce integrators, and joined SAP as a Build Partner.

## Links

- Website: https://luzid.io
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-carranza
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/carranzaandres1
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LuzidAI

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Last updated: 2026-06-25