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Thirty years ago, Optiver started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s European Options Exchange. Today, we are a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: from listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs and bonds to foreign exchange. Our independence allows us to objectively improve the markets and provide efficiencies for market participants.
With 1000 Optiverians globally, our diverse team is united by our mission to improve the market. Thriving in a high performance environment, we pioneer our own trading strategies and systems using clean code and sophisticated technology. To help us achieve what we want to attract, develop and empower top talent with a down to earth mentality, in order to sustain our future.
With 1000 Optiverians globally, our diverse team is united by our mission to improve the market. Thriving in a high performance environment, we pioneer our own trading strategies and systems using clean code and sophisticated technology. To help us achieve what we want to attract, develop and empower top talent with a down to earth mentality, in order to sustain our future.
Overview
Location
Haiti, Centre
Employees
1001-5000
Phone
+31 20 708 7000
Founded date
1986
Mentions in press and media 32
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| Sep 22, 2026 | Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5, beating Fable 5.1 on key agentic benchmarks at 60% cheaper API price | Anthropic today released Claude Opus 5.5, its new frontier model aimed at long-running coding agents, research, and professional knowledge work and it both outperforms and undercuts the cost (over application programming interface, or API) ... |
| Aug 26, 2026 | Forget unpaid internships: This company is paying interns ₹30 lakh a month. Here's why | Gone are the days of unpaid internships; high-frequency trading (HFT) firms are now throwing absolute record sums to attract worthy interns. Why the generosity? According to a Bloomberg report, these firms are seeking an edge in a market th... |
| Jul 5, 2026 | EquiLibre Raises Series A At $500+ Million Valuation To Scale AI Trading Agents | EquiLibre Technologies announced the closing of its Series A funding round at a valuation of more than $500 million. The round was led by Creandum, and the company plans to use the capital to scale compute infrastructure, expand into more m... |
| Jun 16, 2026 | Digital Asset Secures $355M for Canton Network Expansion | Digital Asset secured $355 million in a landmark funding round. This investment propels the Canton Network. Canton is a cutting-edge blockchain platform. It targets institutional capital markets. The funding addresses critical privacy and c... |
| Jun 12, 2026 | Digital Asset Raises $355 Million To Accelerate Canton’s Role As Onchain Infrastructure For Capital Markets | Digital Asset (DA), the creator of Canton, announced a $355 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto fund, a16z crypto, with participation from leading institutions across traditional and decentralized finance, including 7R... |
| Jun 11, 2026 | Digital Asset Raises $355M in Funding | Digital Asset (DA), a NYC-based blockchain technology company and the creator of Canton, raised $355M in funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto fund, a16z crypto, with participation from 7RIDGE, ABN Amro, the Abu Dhabi I... |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Luc Feron: From Optiver to San Francisco, One Calculated Step at a Time | By Carl Williams Published: Jun 09 2026, 05:07 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Anthropic brings Mythos to the masses with Claude Fable 5, its most powerful generally available model ever | Anthropic today launched two new AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — marking the company’s first broad release of the powerful “Mythos-class” AI capabilities it previously made available only to participating organizations in i... |
| Mar 17, 2026 | AgentMail Secures $6M to Power AI Agent Communication Infrastructure | AgentMail has raised $6 million in seed funding. This capital fuels a critical shift in AI communication. The company builds specialized email infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. Traditional email falters for machine operations. AgentM... |
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FAQ about Optiver
When was Optiver founded?
Optiver was founded in 1986.
What has the press written about Optiver?
Parsers VC has collected 32 articles mentioning Optiver, among them “Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5, beating Fable 5.1 on key agentic benchmarks at 60% cheaper API price” (Sep 22, 2026) and “Forget unpaid internships: This company is paying interns ₹30 lakh a month. Here's why” (Aug 26, 2026).
Is Optiver still active?
Yes, Optiver is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 26, 2026.