Optiver

Optiver is a leading global market maker that has been improving financial markets since its inception in 1986. The firm operates by providing liquidity to exchanges across the globe, making markets more efficient, transparent, and stable for all participants. Powered by technological innovation, Optiver continuously offers competitive, two-sided prices for thousands of financial instruments, including equities, FX, fixed income, and commodities products, on major exchanges worldwide. Their operations are driven by in-house developed trading systems and infrastructure, enabling nanosecond-speed responses to market events and peak operational efficiency.

The Optiver story began in 1986 with a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam's European Options Exchange. Since then, the firm has expanded significantly, establishing a global presence with offices in major financial hubs across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. This expansion reflects their commitment to a global mission of improving markets through consistent liquidity provision and reliable risk management, even during volatile market conditions.

Through its Principal Strategic Investments (PSI) arm, Optiver partners with entrepreneurs and founders who are shaping the future of financial markets. The firm is largely size- and stage-agnostic in its investments, focusing on businesses within trading, commodities, capital markets technology, exchanges, trading platforms, clearing & settlement, brokerage, and cutting-edge IT infrastructure such as cybersecurity, cloud ecosystems, data processing, and analytics tools. Notable portfolio companies include Equiduct, Options AI, Paradigm, ODEX, BMLL, Traxys, A5X, AgentMail, Nasdaq Private Market, Carbomax, Optimal Market Technologies, and Japannext.

Optiver's success is built upon its world-class teams of highly skilled professionals from diverse backgrounds. These teams work across five critical domains: Trading, Technology, Quantitative Research, Risk and Control, and Business Operations. The firm emphasizes continuous improvement, collaboration, and challenging the status quo, fostering an inclusive culture where brilliant minds solve complex real-time problems and see the instant, global impact of their ideas.