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Founders

Marcus Abramovitch

Marcus Simon Abramovitch is a Managing Partner at AltX. Marcus began investing in cryptocurrency in 2015 and has been actively trading and consulting for cryptocurrency firms since then. In his spare time, he has also played and coached poker professionally.

Marcus holds a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Waterloo and completed a research fellowship at Harvard University.

Ariel Simnegar

Ariel Simnegar is a Managing Partner at AltX. Ariel was previously a quantitative trader at DRW, one of the world's leading proprietary trading firms.

Prior to joining DRW, Ariel completed a software engineering internship at Amazon.

Ariel holds a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics, both summa cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.