Ramnik Arora
Partner at Original Capital
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
Original Capital is an early stage venture firm.
Original Capital is a venture capital firm.
Head of Product
2020 - 2022
Created the exchange product + FTX raise capital from venture investors + led FTX Ventures for most of the period. FTX raised over $2B from top investors. FTX / Alameda Ventures invested over $3B in early and growth stage deals (incl. Solana, Anthropic, Mysten Labs and a host of others).
Product Manager Lead in Core Ads
2019 - 2020
Research Scientist, Libra (Blockchain)
2018 - 2019
Worked on the aligning stakeholders (validators, investors and users) incentives of the Libra ecosystem. Co-author of the Libra Blockchain whitepaper.
Data Science Manager
2015 - 2018
Managed a team of eight data scientists responsible for the Facebook ad auction system. The team helped create popular ad products and responsible for x% of revenue increase.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Investment Strategy Group, Investment Management Division
2013 - 2015
Co-Creator of Goldman Sachs Strategic Asset Allocation Fund (SFAFX:US on Bloomberg). It was akin to the Bridgewater's all-weather portfolio. The fund currently has AUM of ~ $1.5B
Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Quant Research/Trading
2012 - 2012
Member of four people automated statistical arbitrage group trading liquid US/Japan Equity. IV Capital had a dozen statistical arbitrage groups like ours and it shut down operations overnight in September 2012. Adrian / Stephen (the co-heads of my group) went on to start Seven Eight Capital.