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Gabriel Stengel

Gabriel Stengel is co-founder and CEO of Rogo[1], an AI platform serving investment banks, private equity firms, and hedge funds[1]. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Princeton University[8]. Before founding Rogo in 2022[3], Stengel worked as an investment banker at Lazard from 2020 to 2022[4]. His earlier experience includes roles as a software engineer at MongoDB in 2019[5], a quantitative trading intern at Engineers Gate in 2019[6], and a software engineering intern at Data Vortex in 2018[7].

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Insights & ideas

Gabriel Stengel argues that high finance is bottlenecked by outdated tools and overworked juniors rather than by capital or ambition, describing how, as a Lazard M&A banker, he personally became the rate-limiting factor on a $50 billion transaction despite consumer platforms like Robinhood and Citadel enabling instant, high-volume transactions [1]. He contends AI agents purpose-built for finance are needed rather than general-purpose tools, because vertical-specific prompts, context management, data integrations, and UI are required to handle real workflows [1]. He emphasizes that serving large banks demands deep, white-glove client partnerships, including custom code and prompts, and that finance has unusually high bars for security, compliance, and regulatory issues such as flagging MNPI [1].

Stengel frames Rogo's mission as building an "intelligence layer" for finance that makes people smarter, faster, and saves them from the "accidental complexity" of manual data work [1]. He stresses auditability as essential to usability, comparing AI outputs to a junior analyst's work that must be checked by seniors before reaching clients [1]. He also argues that a more efficient intelligence layer could democratize access to capital markets for underserved companies and regions, improving capital allocation globally [1].

Experience

  1. CEO / Founder
    Rogo2022 to Present
  2. Investment Banker
    Lazard2020 to 2022
  3. Software Engineer
    MongoDB2019 to 2019
  4. Quantitative Trading Intern
    Engineers Gate2019 to 2019
  5. Software Engineering Intern
    Data Vortex2018 to 2018

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