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QFEX

London, UK10+ employeesSeed raised
24/7 Global Stock Exchange

24/7 Global Stock Exchange

YC P25

About the Company

QFEX is the 24/7 exchange for traditional financial markets.

We let you trade US equities, commodities and FX pairs with (or without) leverages of up to 100x. On QFEX, UX comes first: brokerless market access, seamless integration with traditional payment rails, and ultra-efficient Perpetual Futures offered over all asset classes. Trading has never been simpler, cheaper or fairer than with QFEX.

Founded by Quants and Engineers from Citadel & Tower Research who saw an opportunity to make markets how they always should have been, QFEX will eventually replace the entire $100 billion exchange and clearing industry.

Tech Stack

  • Backend: Containerised micro-services in Python & Rust, gRPC, Postgres, Redpanda/Kafka, Kubernetes.

  • Frontend: React (web) & React Native (iOS/Android), TypeScript, Tailwind, Vite.

  • Infra / Dev: GitHub Actions, Terraform, Kubernetes, Grafana, Loki, ArgoCD, AWS.

(If you have a better idea we’ll genuinely listen. We chose tools for pragmatism, not dogma.)

Founders

Annanay Kapila
Annanay Kapila

Annanay is Founder and CEO of QFEX. He met his co-founder Joshua at Cambridge, where he studied Maths and conducted Quantum Computing research. Since then, he has worked as a Quantitative Trader at Flow Traders and Tower Research Capital in London, and is now building QFEX as the exchange he always wish he had to trade on.

Joshua Wharton
Joshua Wharton

Founder & CTO at QFEX

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