Optiver is a corporate venture arm. Team members are concentrated in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Among the 12 companies in the known portfolio are Digital Asset, Pattern, A5X, Nasdaq Private Market, Sharegain and McKay Brothers.
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Investment focus
- Focus
- APICloud InfrastructureCryptoData AnalyticsMachine LearningMarket InfrastructureTradingWeb3
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Who to pitch at Optiver
Optiver portfolio companies (12)
- Digital Asset
- Pattern
- A5X
- Nasdaq Private Market
- Sharegain
- McKay Brothers
- Sk3w Technologies
- Auros
- BMLL Technologies
- ODX
- Options AI
- Eden Block
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About Optiver
The firm's listing covers sectors AI, FinTech and SaaS, and focus areas API, Cloud Infrastructure, Crypto and Data Analytics; known deals cluster at Growth, Late-Stage and Seed.
Of the 6 people on file at Optiver, Gaohua Zhou (Head of quant investment), Michael Lepa (Principal Strategic Investments) and Murat C. (Investor) are listed as the contacts to approach first.
Optiver shares portfolio companies with 20 other investment firms, among them Nasdaq, Citadel Securities and Jump Trading.
Frequently asked questions
What is Optiver?
Optiver is a corporate venture arm whose team is concentrated in Chicago, Illinois, United States, with a known portfolio of 12 companies. The portfolio comes from public investment records rather than from the firm, so deals that never surfaced publicly are not in it.
What does Optiver invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, FinTech and SaaS; listed focus areas include API, Cloud Infrastructure, Crypto and Data Analytics. Those tags come from the portfolio attached to the firm, so they describe what has been backed rather than a stated mandate for what comes next.
What stage does Optiver invest at?
The known deals of Optiver include Growth, Late-Stage and Seed rounds. Check that against your own round before reaching out: stage mismatch is the most common reason a well matched sector still goes nowhere.
Who should I pitch at Optiver?
3 of the 6 people on file at Optiver are listed as contacts for the firm. All 6 have their own profile page.
How do I contact Optiver?
Any email address on file for the firm is masked on this page and readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account. The 6 people attached to the firm have their own pages, each showing whether an address is on file for them.
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