Ramnik Arora

Partner

2024 - Current

Original Capital is an early stage venture 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.

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

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.