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OneChronos

The Smart Market for Institutional Investors

onechronos.com
HQ: New York, NY, USA
11-50
Fintech

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

OneChronos is a technology company at the intersection of capital markets, machine learning, and mechanism design. It operates a U.S. equities smart-market ATS that uses periodic auctions and optimization/AI to improve execution quality, transparency, and liquidity for institutional traders, and it is expanding into FX and Europe.

Primary product

U.S. equities Smart Market / ATS (periodic auction execution venue)

Founded

2015

Headquarters

SoHo, New York City, New York, United States

Team size

50-60 employees

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Financial Services

Sub-industry

Alternative Trading System (ATS) / electronic trading venue

Offices

64 Wooster St. FL 4, New York, NY 10012-4387, USA
110 Greene Street Suite 1204, New York, NY 10012, USA
433 Broadway, STE 211, New York, NY 10013, USA
Suite 1805, 100 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG, UK
Strawinskylaan 357, 1077 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands

Business model

transaction-based market venue / ATS
market access / execution venue fees
financial market infrastructure

Funding

Stage

Series B

Total raised

$81.4M

Latest round

Series B-II · Nov 2024

Latest amount

$32M

Series B-II

Nov 2024 · Addition

$32M

Series B

Sep 2023 · Addition

$40M

Venture Round

May 2019 · Green Visor Capital

$9.3M

Seed extension

Dec 2017

Seed

Mar 2016 · Y Combinator

$125K

People & investors

Leadership

Kelly Littlepage

Chief Executive Officer and Founder

Stephen Johnson

Founder

Jesse Greif

Chief Product Officer

Vlad Khandros

Chief Executive Officer, OneChronos Markets

Scott Bradley

Chief Executive Officer, OneChronos Markets UK

Adam Sherlock

Chief Executive Officer, OneChronos Markets EU

Rick Christer

Chief Operating Officer, OneChronos Markets UK

Rebecca Reichard

Chief Compliance Officer EMEA

Investors

9Yards Capital
Addition
Amino Capital
BoxGroup
DCVC
Green Visor Capital
Notable angels
Page One Ventures
Rising Tide
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Public hiring materials describe OneChronos as inclusive, merit-based, and highly selective, with a team of scientists, engineers, traders, and financial professionals. The company emphasizes curiosity, creativity, intrinsic motivation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

Public job postings show role-based US salary bands such as roughly $150k-$220k for Systems Engineer, $150k-$200k for Senior DevOps Engineer, and $200k-$250k for Engineering Manager, typically plus potential bonus and ownership interest. No company-wide compensation policy is publicly disclosed.

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Potential bonus
Potential ownership interest
Hybrid and remote work flexibility
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) plan
Life insurance
Subsidized fitness programming
Subsidized health and wellness program
Competitive vacation policy
Office snacks and drinks
Pre-tax transportation program
Annual company destination offsite

Product & market

Pricing

Not publicly disclosed; appears to be a venue/transaction-fee model for ATS access and execution services.

Differentiators

  • —Periodic auctions rather than continuous price/time matching
  • —Mathematical optimization / combinatorial auction design
  • —Expressive Bidding for custom execution preferences
  • —Non-displayed execution to reduce information leakage
  • —No queue-priority style matching
  • —Custom counterparty / private-room style functionality
  • —Multi-security atomic trading features such as Pairs EB
  • —Designed to optimize execution quality, price improvement, liquidity, and fairness

Technology

Rust
Python
SQL
OCaml
C++
Java
Temporal
Airflow
Dagster
Parquet
Apache Arrow
Ansible
Terraform
Linux
CI/CD
Aeron
Gurobi
distributed systems

Customers

Institutional investors
Institutional traders
Asset managers
Broker-dealers
Banks
Agency brokers
Buy-side firms
Sell-side firms

Competitors

Traditional U.S. equity ATSs / dark pools
Lit exchanges and continuous order books
Other periodic-auction trading venues
FX ECNs and MTFs

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$1M-$10M (public profile); annual revenue also listed publicly at about $4.5M

info@onechronos.com+1 917-300-0108

Latest news

OneChronos Launches European Trading Venues to Bring New Market Design and Optimisation to Pan-European Equities

Business Wire / FinancialContent · Jul 2026

OneChronos announced the production launch of regulated UK and EU trading venues for pan-European equities and equity-like instruments, extending its market model into Europe and highlighting Day One subscribers from major investment banks, agency brokers, and institutional trading firms.

OneChronos Launches the First Smart Market for Global FX to Improve Execution Quality

Business Wire · Mar 2026

OneChronos launched a spot FX venue using optimization-based auction design, marking its first expansion beyond U.S. equities and reporting roughly $2.85T of institutional securities transactions facilitated through January 2026.

Auctionomics and OneChronos Partner on First Tradable Financial Market for GPU Compute

Business Wire · Jul 2025

OneChronos and Auctionomics announced a partnership to build a market for GPU and compute capacity, signaling expansion of OneChronos market-design technology beyond traditional capital markets.

OneChronos Secures $32M to Optimize Growth and Expand Trading Opportunities

Business Wire · Nov 2024

OneChronos announced $32M in expansion capital led by Addition and said the funds would accelerate growth in existing markets and expansion into new asset classes and geographies.

Expanding Trading Opportunities Across Capital Markets, OneChronos Secures $40 Million Series B Investment Round

Business Wire · Sep 2023

OneChronos completed a $40M Series B led by Addition to expand its product offering and footprint across capital markets.

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