# Raymond Zhao

> Raymond Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Structured AI, a Y Combinator (Fall 2025) startup building an AI workforce for construction design engineering. A 23-year-old Oxford maths and statistics graduate and former Goldman Sachs quant intern, he walked away from a coveted finance career to build AI agents that automatically review engineering drawings and catch costly errors before they reach a job site. The company raised roughly $1M in pre-seed and a $4.2M seed round, and counts firms like Syska Hennessy Group among its customers.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Structured AI
- **Organizations:** Structured AI, Y Combinator (F25), University of Oxford, Goldman Sachs (former intern), London Stock Exchange (former)
- **From:** Australia
- **Nationality:** Australian
- **Education:** Mathematics & Statistics (BA, then Master's), University of Oxford
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Structured AI, accepted into Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch, Raised roughly $1M in pre-seed and a $4.2M seed round for Structured AI, Built automation systems at Goldman Sachs and the London Stock Exchange

## Career timeline

- **2021** — Moved from Australia to the UK to study Maths & Statistics at the University of Oxford
- **2024** — Interned as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in London; realized within a month it wasn't for him
- **2024** — Returned to Oxford for his Master's; met co-founders Issy Greenslade and Brandon Abreu Smith through Oxford's VC and AI societies
- **2025** — Co-founded Structured AI; raised ~$500K at a San Francisco AI conference in his final week at Oxford
- **2025** — Accepted into Y Combinator's Fall 2025 (F25) batch; raised another ~$500K, totaling ~$1M pre-seed
- **2026** — Structured AI raised a $4.2M seed round

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Structured AI, accepted into Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch
- Raised roughly $1M in pre-seed and a $4.2M seed round for Structured AI
- Built automation systems at Goldman Sachs and the London Stock Exchange
- Implemented an AI system at a £1B VC firm that reportedly increased deal flow 20x
- Featured in Business Insider, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and AEC Magazine
- Structured AI named among BuiltWorlds' 40 AI-Driven AEC Solutions to Watch in 2026

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Featured in Business Insider on giving up his Goldman Sachs dream for a Y Combinator AI startup
- **2025-10** — Structured AI publicly launched its agentic QA/QC platform for construction design engineering
- **2026-06** — Structured AI raised a $4.2M seed round

## Links

- Website: https://www.getstructured.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymondz1/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/stingrayzz22
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/CRFsqOTynng

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Last updated: 2026-06-21