POPA ReconCatalyst (Catalyst Labs, @CatalystLabsX) is an AI trading agents platform that turns a plain-language trade idea into researched, monitored and executed trades. It announced a $30M seed round led by Sequoia on 2026-10-08.
What it does
The launch post says Catalyst researches your ideas, builds the optimal strategy, monitors events and executes trades autonomously. Its examples are data centers popping up everywhere, gold skyrocketing, or Labubus going out of fashion. According to the Korean-language Leviathan News summary, which cites the homepage, it supports spot tokens, perpetual futures, tokenized stocks and prediction markets. News and social reactions can serve as strategy conditions, for example enter on a given piece of news and exit on the opposite signal. The same summary says the user sets a budget and trading conditions, the agent works inside them, and the user can pause or edit a strategy at any time. It describes the service as non-custodial. These homepage details come from that summary, not from a page I read directly.
Funding
The funding post names the $30M seed round led by Sequoia. Participants named in it are Jump, Lux Capital, AntiFund, Selini Capital, Peak XV Partners, SF1 and others. The asker's material also lists Coinbase and Premji Invest. Those two are not in the project's own post.
Traction and team
The third post claims hundreds of millions in volume already done and tens of thousands of people on the waitlist. It names Tempo and Privy as partners for reliable execution and fund security. It says the team includes founding engineers from Scale AI, Palantir, HRT, Citadel and Jump. These are the project's own claims, and the sources do not independently verify them.
Status
Catalyst is in research preview, with early access through the waitlist at catalyst.app and a community Discord at discord.gg/usecatalyst. The sources do not name a token or any on-chain contract.
Launch post · Funding post · Site · Discord