HRT Ventures
Strategic investments in innovative problem-solvers across finance & tech.
What is HRT Ventures?
HRT Ventures is the strategic investing arm of Hudson River Trading focused on early and growth-stage private investments across technology including FinTech, AI, and Deeptech — sectors where HRT’s core strengths and domain expertise can be uniquely valuable.
Our Approach
HRT Ventures brings rigorous, tech-driven diligence together with flexible capital to invest and strategically partner with businesses that share our vision for durable, sustainable success. We are grounded in the deep infrastructure expertise that comes from building and operating complex, global trading and compute systems and applying that know-how to the next generation of exciting companies.
Why Partner with HRT?
Across FinTech, AI, and Deeptech, HRT Ventures invests where extensive technical understanding matters.
We bring not only capital but 20+ years of engineering, research, and systems-building expertise, enabling us to serve as a real-world testbed, design partner, and long-term collaborator to founders operating at the frontier of their industries.
Our deep domain-specific expertise in financial products, as well as our established background in crypto markets, uniquely positions us to provide strategic growth capital to a wide range of early-stage businesses and projects across capital markets.
Our Portfolio
Algofi
Algofi is Algorand’s liquidity protocol. The Algofi platform allows Algorand users to lend and borrow to earn interest, get leverage, or short crypto assets.
Alliance
Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator & founder community.
C3 Protocol
C3 is a cross-chain, low-latency and performant decentralized exchange for spot and derivative trading allowing you to unlock the full potential of your capital from any blockchain.
Eaglebrook Advisors
The Bitcoin and Crypto SMA Platform. Eaglebrook is the seamless and secure way for financial advisors to invest in bitcoin and digital assets.
Econia Labs
Econia is the DeFi liquidity backbone of the Aptos blockchain, offering a Central Limit Order Book that leverages the scalability and technical innovations of Aptos and pools liquidity for additional DeFi applications to be built on top.
Eridu
Networking Purpose-Built for AI. Eridu delivers the order-of-magnitude advance in performance, radix and efficiency needed to meet current and future AI needs.
Gatsby
The Gatsby app makes options trading simple. Trade puts and calls on stocks and ETFs. No commissions or contract fees. Free options trading with Gatsby.
MIAX
Built on the high-performance MIAX trading platform, MIAX Pearl Equities delivers ultra-low latency, high determinism and customizable, best-in-class risk protections.
Notifi Network
Notifi powers unrivaled notification experiences in Web3. Notifi provides adaptable, white-label solutions that easily integrate into dApps and blockchain networks, creating engaged users and effective teams.
Pattern
Human advice, machine-assisted. On-demand conversations with your matched financial advisor, tailored financial plans, asset management, and access to private equity, all in one place. Pattern, your new digital family office.
Republic
Invest in the future you believe in | Access highly-vetted investment opportunities in startups, real estate, video games, and crypto.
Sei Network
Sei is the first Layer 1 designed for trading, optimizing every layer of the stack to give exchanges an unfair advantage. Sei is the fastest chain to finality, includes frontrunning resistance, several levels of order bundling, and offers a native order matching engine that apps can leverage.
Sporttrade
The first dynamic sports betting and trading exchange where you can trade sports bets like you trade stocks. Elevate your sports betting experience with Sporttrade.
The Tie
The Tie is the leading provider of information services for digital assets. The Crypto SigDevâ„¢ Terminal, is the fastest and most comprehensive workstation for institutional digital asset investors.
Vertex Protocol
Vertex unleashes the power of DeFi. Specializing in on-chain FX, derivatives and leveraged spot products, Vertex brings the capital efficiency and usability of CeFi to DeFi.
How can I learn more?
For more information, contact HRT Ventures at strategicvc@hudson-trading.com.
Disclaimer
All trademarks, logos and brand names are the property of their respective owners.
Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) owns Miami International Securities Exchange (MIAX®), MIAX PEARL®, MIAX Emerald®, Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEXTM), and the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX). Through its five U.S. exchanges, MIH offers trading in U.S. listed options and equities, as well as futures and options through MGEX. Currently the fifteenth largest global derivatives exchange, MIH is quickly expanding as a global exchange group, providing access to international capital market instruments including debt, equity and insurance-linked securities through the BSX.