🚀 Sg-Based Quant Prop Firm & Fintech Startup Raising Partners & Investors

🚀 Varsity Tech — A Dual-Engine Business: Quant Prop Trading + AI Fintech Startup

Varsity Tech operates two engines in parallel:
(1) a high-performing quantitative proprietary trading firm running fully automated intraday strategies in U.S. markets, and
(2) a fast-scaling AI-native fintech startup building Asia’s first “vibe-trading” app that lets everyday users create trading algorithms through natural language.

🏢 Who We Are
Varsity Tech is a fully automated quant trading firm specializing in U.S. equities, with expanding operations in crypto arbitrage, futures, and multi-asset systematic strategies.

Key stats:
AUM: USD $3M+
Daily Turnover: ~20%
Team: 7 full-time (C++ engineers, AI researchers, quant traders)
30+ proprietary trading algorithms
Full in-house AI research & C++ trading engine
Exchange connectivity: NYSE / Nasdaq / Cboe / crypto venues
Our burn rate is extremely lean — 47k–52k SGD/month covering full team, infra & office.

📈 Live Trading Performance
US Equities Portfolio (Feb–Sep 2025):
+127% realized return
Annualized: 183%
Sharpe: 3.86
Max Drawdown: 7.83%
Calmar: 23.3
Benchmarks (same period):
QQQ: +18.7%
S&P500: +12.3%

🧠 What Makes Us Different
1️⃣ AI-Native Strategy Engine
Our system automatically creates, validates, and improves trading strategies using multi-agent AI.
Already 30+ validated strategies across different market regimes.

2️⃣ Full Automated Trading Stack
Built fully in-house:
Low-latency C++ engine
High-throughput data pipelines
Real-time execution engine
Ultra-fast backtesting
Multi-asset support (US equities, crypto, futures, stablecoins)

3️⃣ Lean, Scalable Operations
Automation allows us to scale AUM and products without ballooning headcount.
Low error rates, high reliability, and extremely efficient burn.

📱 Fintech Product — Asia’s First AI “Vibe-Trading” App
We’re building Asia’s first AI-native platform where anyone can create trading algorithms using simple natural language.
No coding.
No complex charts.
Just describe the idea—and the AI builds the algo end-to-end (backtest → optimize → deploy).
Think of it as “ChatGPT for trading algos.”

We are preparing to raise ~SGD 1M angel round for product expansion.

💰 What We’re Raising
1) Angel Investors
Minimum ticket: SGD 300k
Use of funds:
Expand trading capital (> SGD 5M target for VCC fund)
Strengthen AI research and infra
Scale fintech product team

2) Strategic Partners
We welcome partners in:
Technology (AI, infra, C++ trading systems)
Finance (fundraising, compliance, structuring)
HR & Operations (hiring, scaling, organization building)

If you want to help build the next major quant fund + AI trading platform in Asia, we want to talk.