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Finance · Anywhere · 20–500 employees

Hedge Fund or Quant Firm

License proprietary market, risk and sports data, or the code that trades on it.

  • You earn up to

    $69,000

  • Company earns

    $60K–$690K

    Depends on history and exclusivity

Houston scopes the data, signs an NDA and runs the export, removing or protecting personal information.

About

We're looking for trading firms and data providers with long proprietary time series, such as order-book, liquidity and risk data or sports odds and outcomes. Firms that own their trading infrastructure code also qualify.

Location
Anywhere
Company size
20–500 employees
Track record
Multi-year time series
Kinds of companies
Proprietary trading and HFT, quant funds, broker-dealers, market-data vendors, sportsbooks and sports-statistics providers

Is it a fit?

What we're looking for

  • Multi-year proprietary time series, or trading infrastructure code, that the firm owns
  • The right to license it for AI training

Not a fit

  • Redistributed exchange feeds the firm doesn't own
  • Data that is already public

Who knows companies like this

Quant developers, market-structure consultants and sports-betting operators.

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What the license covers

  • Time-series datasets
  • Trading and research code

Nice to have, adds to what the company earns

  • Order management systems, FIX/ITCH/OUCH handlers, low-latency engines and backtesters
  • Research notebooks and backtest results
  • Sports odds and outcome histories

Tools we work with

  • kdb+
  • C++
  • Rust
  • FIX
  • Python

Questions we'll ask the company

If the company can answer these, it is likely a good referral.

  1. Which time series do you own, and how far back?
  2. Can you license it for model training?
  3. Is your trading code free of third-party licenses?
  4. What formats is the data in?

How referrals work

  1. 1

    Find a fit

    Pick an open request and think of a company that matches.

  2. 2

    Refer them

    Share the company and a few details about it, in about a minute.

  3. 3

    We do the work

    We scope their data, agree a license and handle the export.

  4. 4

    You get paid

    Up to $69,000 per company, after their first delivery.

On this request

Up to $69,000

  • 10% of what we agree to pay the company
  • Confirmed when the company signs its data license
  • Paid after their first delivery
Read all the terms

Refer a company for this request.

Share the company and a few details. We handle the outreach.

After you refer

  1. Submitted

    We have your referral and are reviewing it.

  2. In progress

    We're working with them. We'll let you know how it lands.

  3. Reward confirmed

    Your reward is confirmed and on its way.

  4. Reward paid

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