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Beacon Platform
Developer platform for capital markets
- 101-200 employees
- Fintech
- B2B
- Trading
- Financial Services
- SaaS
- DevOps
- Capital Markets
- Cloud Computing
- Financial District, New York, NY
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Company mission
To supercharge developer productivity, enabling innovative financial services firms to get more value out of their R&D.
Our take
Born from its founders' decades of collective experience, Beacon Platform is a a next-generation, cloud-native, quant development platform that allows users to make the best of the custom risk management and trading applications they deploy and use on a daily basis.
The platform promises to make firms more agile. It does so by boosting developer productivity, increasing the return-on-investment of research and development efforts. Users are able to build apps in mere days (through rapid prototyping tools), allowing them to spend more time otherwise generating business value.
Past funding has been put to expanding Beacon's workforce, particularly in engineering and sales, and scaling across markets in new locations. The integration of the platform by Blackstone, a global alternative asset manager, was a key moment for the company. And it will need to continue such endeavours if it's to stay ahead of the curve.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- A hybrid work environment that accommodates personal time and unique working arrangements
- Paid holidays, sick days, and a generous PTO policy (including days off for volunteering)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan and other national retirement savings plans
- Professional development programs
- Performance-based bonuses
Company values
- Clients First
- Integrity
- Technical Excellence
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Respect
- Empowering our Employees
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2021
$56m
SERIES C
Jan 2020
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $96.5m
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Leadership
Mark Higgins
(Co-Founder & Chief Analytics Officer)Previously VP at Goldman Sachs and a Managing Director at JP Morgan.
Kirat Singh
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked in Strategy roles at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan and as a Managing Director for Bank of America.
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