Venture Capital for Financial Technology

We help entrepreneurs create exceptional products and cultivate valuable businesses. Our founding team has helped entrepreneurs develop over fifty successful products, has patented multiple finance-related technologies, and has supported millions of traders around the world.

Think of Modulus as an extension of your team. We help get your product to market quickly and efficiently. We're not just an incubator you meet with once a week or once a month. We help build great management teams, build great products, and connect entrepreneurs with growth stage investors operating in the financial technology (fintech) space.

200+ Experts

Modulus has the world's brightest team of financial technology experts with a combined experience of over a millennium.

3+ Million End Users

Our technology and services reach over three million traders and investors throughout 94 countries around the world.

Top Awards

Rated 5 stars by Futures Magazine. Featured in Stocks & Commodities Magazine, TradersWorld, A.I. Magazine and more.

Direction

We've been the industry thought leaders since our founding in 1997. We have a clear direction and vision for success.

We're an Extension of Your Team

Our full-time staff works with companies to ensure success. We're not only mentors and advisors.

We leverage our experience as leaders in financial technology. Since 1997, we have supported millions of traders around the world. We use our reputation, connections, and experience to ensure that your business succeeds.

We help brainstorm, prototype, gather feedback, plan, scale, deliver, and grow!

We Help Prototype and Iterate

Developing prototypes for financial technology is fraught with difficulty and risk. All of our portfolio companies have access to our engineers in the United States and Europe, who can assist with market data and brokerage connections.

Our legal counsel will assist with regulations that deal with exchanges, payment processing, operating a brokerage, and much more. Our legal team will also work with you to build an impenetrable wall around your company and technology via patents and trademarks.

Make a Splash on Both Sides of the Pond

Our top portfolio companies are sponsored by Modulus at industry trade shows such as MoneyShow™, Traders Expo™, The Trading Show, iFX Expo, the London Investor Show, TiE Con, SXSW and more. Our marketing experts train portfolio companies in best practices for trade shows to ensure maximum attention.

Running a startup is an around-the-clock effort. Modulus has offices and shop space in the US and in Europe. This means you can always contact us, 24/7, no matter where your startup is based.

We have been in the industry since 1997, and our portfolio companies leverage our connections with exchanges, brokerages, and data vendors. Through Modulus, financial services companies can connect with hard-to-access community members.

1997
Modulus Founded

Modulus was founded as a financial software company. The first product was a commodity trading system used by traders at the CBOT. Soon after a second product called TradeBASIC™ was released, which was a programming language for traders.
4 Aug 1997
First Hedge Fund Client

Modulus develops a highly successful A.I. trading system using neural networks, genetic algorithms, and Chaos theory for a hedge fund.
SEP 1998
2002
ModulusFE.com Launched

Modulus launches ModulusFE.com for the Modulus Financial Engineering group. StockChartX V2 was released and licensed to brokerages and professional traders with source code. The Modulus NN50 Neural Network DLL was released and won an award from SAS.
MAR 2002
StockChartX V3 and TA-SDK Released

TA-SDK technical indicator library released with over 60 technical indicators available with C++, VB, FoxPro, Delphi source code. Modulus wins an award from Futures Magazine, receiving 4 out of 4 stars. StockChartX V3 is released. Developed in C++ with examples provided in VB, C++, FoxPro, Delphi, and later, Microsoft .NET.
AUG 2002
2004
Celebrating 500,000 Users

Over 500,000 users. Modulus is recognized by Stocks & Commodities Magazine. The RMD Server market data server is released supporting multi-terabyte databases. Modulus celebrates new clients including Sungard, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Barclays, Chicago Board of Trade and many other top names. Modulus Brazil is launched.
JAN 2004
High Frequency Trading Begins

Modulus develops an early version of what would come to be known as a high frequency trading system and installs the system in a co-location facility near the NASDAQ.
FEB 2004
2005
One Million Users and Several New Products

Modulus celebrates over one million users, thanks in part to ScanTheMarket.com, which later gets acquired by Genesis Securities. The M4 Trading Platform is released and is an instant hit with brokerages and professional traders worldwide. Contains over 800,000 lines of code.
JUN 2005
TradeScript Beta Released

The first beta of TradeScript is tested. Results are mind boggling. Over 100,000 simulated stock symbols are scanned with complex criteria (using over 50 technical indicators) on over 1,000 records per symbol with results returned in under 50 milliseconds.
OCT 2005
2010
WallStreetBirds.com Launched

Modulus develops a Natural Language Processing engine using neural networks to extract meaning from social media messages at a rate of millions of messages per second. "Twitter mood predicts the stock market": Johan Bollen; Huina Mao; Xiao-Jun Zeng (Journal of Computational Science 2: 1–8).
JUN 2010
Exchange Engine Released

Modulus launches the MyExchange trading engine for powering forex brokerages, which would later be used by sports betting operators, crypto-currency exchanges and more.
NOV 2010
2015
SharpeMind™ powered by IBM Watson™

SharpeMind was an application developed by Modulus and powered by IBM Watson to read millions of financial reports so investors could make better investment decisions. Modulus celebrates over three million end users around the world.
JAN 2014
NASA Chooses Modulus

Modulus expands beyond finance and develops a big-data application for NASA, to receive enormous amounts of data from the International Space Station for display on tablet devices.
FEB 2015

Let's Get Started!

Should my Company Apply?

Modulus invests in early-stage companies. Applicants need not have a fully built product, but must have a business plan and a mockup available for review.

Need I be based in Scottsdale, Arizona?

Scottsdale, Arizona, home to GoDaddy and other tech giants, is a beautiful city with world-class mountain hiking, five-star dining and high end shopping. However, it gets pretty hot here in the summer (up to 125º F). If this doesn't bother you, we welcome you to work with us in our offices, though in this day and age, most startup teams work remotely, which is perfectly fine with us.

How much does Modulus Invest?

Modulus VC partners invest between $100,000 and $10M in startups, which is typically provided through multiple rounds. We invest in financial technology startups and we also invest in industries outside of finance.

Venture Capital for Financial Technology

Modulus Founded

First Hedge Fund Client

ModulusFE.com Launched

StockChartX V3 and TA-SDK Released

Celebrating 500,000 Users

High Frequency Trading Begins

One Million Users and Several New Products

TradeScript Beta Released

WallStreetBirds.com Launched

Exchange Engine Released

SharpeMind™ powered by IBM Watson™

NASA Chooses Modulus

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