Rishikesh Mistry
UCL Natural Sciences. Built and sold an AI company. Exploring trading and startups.
- Markets
- Building & Sales
- Interests
The short version
Natural Sciences at UCL, majoring in maths and statistics, with a First in both years so far. Cold-emailed to get experience on ExxonMobil's trading floor. Built an AI receptionist agency and sold it within six months for a five-figure exit. Now exploring careers in trading and in startups.
- Years 1 and 2
- 1st
- Founding to exit
- 6 mo
- Funded evaluations passed
- 4
- Streams of my music
- 1M+
Markets05
Trading & markets
- May 2026–nowGB power price forecastPython · FastAPI · ReactCalls tomorrow's GB power prices every morning and scores itselfProjectLive
- Sep 2025–Oct 2025Equity strategy backtesterExcel / VBABacktests SMA and RSI strategies on five years of S&P dataProject
- Jul 2025–Aug 2025ExxonMobilCommodities Trading Summer PlacementCommodities trading placement, landed with one cold emailWork
- Dec 2024–Mar 2026Monte Carlo options pricerPythonPrices European options to within 2% of Black–ScholesProject
- Nov 2024–nowProprietary tradingFunded account evaluationsPassed four funded evaluations and take payouts on $100k+ notionalProject
Building & Sales05
Built and sold
- Sep 2025–Mar 2026AI Receptionist AgencyFounderFounded and sold an AI receptionist business within six months6 moFounding to exit5-figExit25+Qualified leads+50%Conversion rateVentureSold
- Aug 2026–nowCodicilPitch & salesCrypto inheritance: a vault that pays your heir once a solicitor confirms deathVenture
- Oct 2026–nowDigital biomarkersPhone-based touch studyA small phone study towards predicting neurodegenerative disease from touchProjectBuilding now
- Sep 2026–nowClaude / ChatGPT pluginFounderAn assistant plugin that tracks applications and drafts only from what you've doneProjectBuilding now
- Oct 2026–nowSCAR/WAVE literature reviewMathematics & Statistics major, UCLHow cells steer the machinery that cancer uses to invadeResearchIn progress
Interests05
Off the clock
Fencing
Captained UCL Fencing in 2025–26. Three-time national team champion at school.
Music
I produce and DJ as m?try: Brazilian edits, house and amapiano.
1M+Streams
Football
I love 5-a-side. Arsenal.
Poker
Probability, position and reading the table.
Magic & mentalism
Close-up magic and mentalism. Most of the method is reading people.
Education
At the intersection
An education rooted in the intersection of the sciences: mathematics and statistics as my major, molecular and cell biology alongside. I can model a system and understand the biology behind it.
- 2024–27
BSc Natural Sciences
University College London
- Major: Mathematics & Statistics. Second stream: Molecular & Cell Biology.
- Modules include Dynamical Systems, Probability & Statistics, Game Theory and Regression Modelling.
- Year 1
- 1st
- Year 2
- 1st
- 2022–24
A-levels
Royal Grammar School Guildford
- Senior Prefect and House Captain.
- Biology
- A*
- Maths
- A
- Chemistry
- A
- 2017–22
GCSEs
Royal Grammar School Guildford
- Awarded an academic scholarship.
- A* grades
- 11
- Languages
- English · FluentSpanish · B2Gujarati · B2
- Skills
- Excel · Highly proficientR and Python · IntermediateMATLAB and SQL · Basic
- Certificates
- Bloomberg Market ConceptsAmplifyME Trading Simulation · Top 5%
Contact
Say hello
Open to conversations about trading and startups