VivCourt

What VivCourt does

VivCourt (legal entity: Vivienne Court Trading) is a privately held, employee-owned proprietary trading firm founded in 2011 by Rob Keldoulis in Sydney, Australia. The firm trades its own capital across global financial markets using a multi-strategy approach that combines high-frequency market-making, mid-frequency systematic/quantitative trading, and positional trading. Coverage spans equities, ETFs, options, fixed income, FX, cryptocurrency, and energy markets (including a Brisbane-based energy desk focused on Australian and New Zealand electricity), with execution routed through Asia-Pacific exchanges and global macro venues. VivCourt operates from five offices — Sydney (Paddington HQ), Brisbane, Melbourne, Amsterdam, and Hong Kong — and explicitly maintains no external shareholders, with trading profits returned to employees via performance bonuses and to community causes via a Social Bonus program (approximately $20,000 per employee annually to donate to charities of their choice).

The firm's technology stack is fully in-house and built across C++, Python, C#, and Go, with FPGA components dedicated to low-latency execution and signal processing. Systems are organized across core infrastructure, performance-critical libraries, trader-facing tools, and automated trading systems, supporting the full trading lifecycle from signal generation to execution and risk. The Commercial team forges strategic partnerships with global exchanges and ETF providers that are required for market-making access and ETF inventory management. VivCourt's talent model — campus, graduate, internship, and experienced-hire pipelines, no non-compete clauses, and a profit-sharing plus social impact structure — is positioned as the firm's primary differentiator versus traditional prop trading firms.

Because VivCourt is a proprietary trading firm with no external customers and no external shareholders, its revenue mechanics differ from a typical product company: top-line is generated entirely from trading P&L on its own capital, with no disclosed pricing, SaaS, or fee-for-service offering. Customer concentration is therefore not applicable in the conventional sense; the relevant external dependencies are exchange access, counterparty liquidity, and capital base. The firm does not disclose revenue, funding rounds, or financial statements, and there are no known acquisitions, M&A activity, or external investment rounds on record.

Name

VivCourt

Legal name

Vivienne Court Trading

Website

https://vivcourt.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Proprietary Trading

NAICS

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523), Miscellaneous Financial Investment Activities (523999)

SIC

Security Brokers, Dealers & Flotation Companies (6211)

akta.pro primary industry

Market Making & Liquidity Provision (FSADAJAC)

Keywords

• Proprietary trading
• Market making
• Quantitative trading
• Algorithmic trading systems
• Low latency trading

Headquarters

HQ city

Paddington

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Proprietary Trading: Proprietary trading firm that trades its own capital across global financial markets. Generates revenue through multiple trading strategies including systematic trading, positional trading, and market-making across equities, ETFs, options, fixed income, FX, cryptocurrency, and energy markets. No external shareholders; profits return to employees and community through social bonus program.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

VivCourt is a proprietary trading firm that trades its own capital across global financial markets using market-making, quantitative, and positional strategies. It operates in-house trading systems built in C++, Python, C#, Go, and FPGA across equities, ETFs, options, fixed income, FX, cryptocurrency, and energy markets on Asia-Pacific exchanges and global macro venues. The firm has no external shareholders and reinvests profits in employees and a social bonus charitable giving program.

Product overview

VivCourt operates as a proprietary trading firm that trades global financial markets using its proprietary technology stack and trading systems. The company runs a multi-strategy approach across multiple asset classes (stocks, futures, options, ETFs, fixed income, FX, crypto, energy) utilizing systematic trading, positional trading, and market-making strategies. The firm's trading operations span Asia-Pacific exchanges and global macro markets. The technology division builds and maintains in-house trading systems, infrastructure, and platform tools using C++, Python, C#, and Go. There are no separate named product modules or SaaS offerings—the company is a trading firm whose 'product' is its proprietary trading capability and systems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Proprietary Trading Systems In-house proprietary trading platform that executes strategies across equities, ETFs, options, fixed income, FX, cryptocurrency, and energy markets on Asia-Pacific exchanges and global macro venues, supporting systematic trading, positional trading, and market-making for the firm's own capital.
• Systematic Quantitative Trading Mid-frequency, data-driven quantitative trading strategies built on statistical models with signal generation, execution logic tuned to market microstructure, and automated trading at scale across global markets for VivCourt's proprietary capital.
• High-Frequency Market Making High-frequency market-making operations quoting two-sided prices across global exchanges with sophisticated inventory and position management, providing liquidity for the firm's own book.
• Energy Trading Desk Brisbane-based energy desk running directional proprietary trading strategies in Australian and New Zealand electricity markets using data-driven forecasting and fundamental insights.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over $21 million donated to more than 580 organizations since founding
• +2 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Exchanges (various global exchanges)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommercial team forges strategic partnerships with exchanges to enable trading activities across global markets. Exchanges are key stakeholders in VivCourt's trading operations.
• ETF ProviderscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnerships with ETF providers supporting VivCourt's ETF trading activities and market-making operations.
• Clean ForceminorOthersSocial enterprise supplier of cleaning services that creates impact through employment, training, and community reinvestment.
• PlateitForwardminorOthersSocial enterprise supplier providing catering services that creates impact through employment, training, and community reinvestment.
• Kua CoffeeminorOthersSocial enterprise supplier of coffee that creates impact through employment, training, and community reinvestment.
• So They CanminorOthersLocal NGO partnered with VivCourt for Impact Day volunteering projects. VivCourt staff have completed projects including school renovations in Tanzania.
• Assistance Dogs AustraliaminorOthersNot-for-profit organisation providing training for assistance dogs. VivCourt team provides B&B service for puppies in training through weekend volunteer program.
• One Young WorldminorOthersGlobal summits championing social impact. VivCourt sponsors one staff member and not-for-profit representative annually to engage with global changemakers.
• Esparq VenturesminorOthersSocial-purpose enterprise receiving impact loan investment from VivCourt. Creates First Nations jobs and supports businesses across regional and remote communities.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Akuna Capital: Proprietary trading firm specializing in options market-making and electronic trading. Direct peer in the options market-making space, with comparable focus on low-latency technology and quantitative strategies.
• Optiver: Amsterdam-based global proprietary trading firm and market maker across multiple asset classes. Directly comparable as a multi-strategy, multi-asset prop trading firm with similar technology-focused approach and global office footprint.
• Flow Traders: Amsterdam-based proprietary trading firm focused on ETF market-making and liquidity provision globally. Direct competitor in the market-making and ETF trading space, with similar European headquarters and global operational footprint.
• IMC Financial Markets: Amsterdam-headquartered proprietary trading firm specializing in market making and arbitrage across global financial markets. Directly comparable business model as a multi-strategy prop trading firm with significant presence in equities, options, and ETFs.
• Hudson River Trading (HRT): Quantitative proprietary trading firm using sophisticated mathematical models and low-latency systems. Direct peer in the algorithmic/quantitative trading space with comparable focus on technology-driven alpha generation.
• Jane Street: Global proprietary trading firm with market-making operations across equities, ETFs, options, bonds, and cryptocurrencies. Direct competitor in the multi-asset market-making and quantitative trading space, though significantly larger in scale.
• Susquehanna International Group (SIG): Global quantitative trading firm with market-making, equities, options, and ETF trading operations. Direct peer in the proprietary trading space with similar technology-driven approach and multi-asset focus.
• DRW Trading: Diversified proprietary trading firm trading multiple asset classes globally. Direct peer with similar multi-strategy approach spanning equities, fixed income, commodities, and crypto markets, with comparable employee-owned structure.

Emerging players

• Maven Securities: London-headquartered proprietary trading firm with electronic market-making and high-frequency trading operations. Comparable as a mid-sized prop trading firm with similar technology-focused approach, though smaller scale than VivCourt.

Broad incumbents

• Citadel Securities: One of the world's largest market makers and proprietary trading firms. Operates broadly across equities, options, and fixed income with substantially greater scale and capital than VivCourt, but directly competes in market-making activities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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