A fund and a platform, built on the same engine.
Aquon is a deep-tech quant firm and an NYU research spin-off, building both sides of the systematic-investing stack.
What we're building.
Aquon operates as both a quantitative fund and a technology platform, running our own systematic strategies through AQTF and commercializing the platform beneath them to other emerging managers, family offices, and ETF issuers.
The reference model is BlackRock's Aladdin at institutional scale and Numerai at venture pace: a credible operating fund anchoring a technology business beneath it, each side reinforcing the other.
An NYU research spin-off.
Aquon is built around Aqua, a numerical computation language developed at NYU and exclusively licensed to us. Beyond raw performance, Aqua gives the firm a controlled, audited, low-attack-surface numerical core. A structural advantage as institutional trust comes to depend on software supply-chain integrity.
Our Team
Building both sides of the systematic-investing stack: the fund and the platform.
Carlos de Oliveira
Co-Founder, CIO & Portfolio Manager
PhD Mathematics, UC Berkeley and MBA, NYU Stern
25 yrs: Credit Suisse, BNY Mellon, TD Ameritrade, Fidelity
Adjunct Faculty, NYU Tandon
Priya
Co-Founder, Engineering & Operations
Co-inventor of Aqua and Zeton
NYU Alumni MS Management of Technology 24'
Completed NYU TVP Spring '25
NSF I-Corps program graduate
Nachiket
Founding Engineer
Co-inventor of Aqua and Zeton
NYU Alumni MS Computer Engineering 24'
Avina
Founding Engineer
Co-inventor of Aqua
NYU Alumni MS Computer Engineering 25'
Advisors
Willie Bass
Business Advisor, Aquon
Managing Partner @ The WC Group
ex-EY, ex-KPMG, ex-BNY Mellon
Carlos Tomei
Technical Advisor, Aquon
Associate Professor @ PUC-Rio
Karla Williams
Legal Advisor, Aquon
CPO at University of Michigan
Recognition & Momentum
~$132,000 in non-dilutive recognition across four competitive selection processes.
NSF I-Corps
Federal Program
National Science Foundation customer-discovery program.
$50,000
NYU TAC Award
Fall 2025
Technology, Acceleration, and Commercialization Award for product viability.
$65,000
NYU Summer Launchpad
Summer 2026 Cohort
Selective accelerator supporting early-stage NYU ventures.
$15,000
NYU Tech Venture
Spring 2025
Tech Venture Poster Competition recognizing early research potential.
$2,000
Built in New York's Innovation Ecosystem
As a Startup NY company, we benefit from New York State tax incentives that support our growth and long-term innovation. We are also an NYU Future Labs company, and now operate from our office at the NYU building, at the center of one of New York's strongest technology and research communities.