Catapult Labs

What We Do

We are at the beginning of a revolution in the digital asset space. Trading volumes are skyrocketing as new players enter the space, including the largest financial firms in the world (including the likes of Goldman and Blackrock). To meet this need, numerous market makers and funds have sprung up over the last few years, but without crucial foundational infrastructure they have been left with error-prone, expensive, and laborious manual processes — leaving them unable to scale.

At Catapult we’re looking to change all that! We’re leveraging the latest technologies automate the entire trade-lifecycle, beginning in the digital asset space and then looking to traditional finance as well. We’re beginning with simple OTC trades, which are usually negotiated in informal language over a chat application/email. We use fine-tuned LLMs/ML to capture these informal trades (which may involve negotiations, informal/jargon-filled language, references to the distant past, etc) and prepare them for booking. This is just the first step, as we continue down the trade lifecycle looking to automate compliance, margin management, operations, payments, analytics, and more.

We’ve raised a $5m seed round led by Blockchain Capital, Brevan Howard, and more, so we’re well capitalised to build and scale rapidly!

The Team

With diverse backgrounds & experiences from Cambridge University, Meta, Bain, JP Morgan, Google, Dyson School of Design, we’ve come together to solve a challenging problem we’re really passionate about.

Between us, we've co-created a field in mathematics, built the largest decentralised newsroom in the world, had work featured in the Design Museum, built state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, published many papers in many journals, founded companies that leverage LLMs (and that’s just what we've done for fun!).