Seriousness first
We optimize for the work, not the announcement. A flattering story is cheaper than a thing that holds up.
Company
We started this because the market deserved a new one
EQVasset is a small company with a large claim: that trading is ready for a different kind of firm. We are early, we are private, and we intend to stay that way until the work earns a louder voice.
A disruptive company in this industry is not the one with the loudest site. It is the one that changes what serious firms can do.
Why we exist
The edge stayed too concentrated
Trading rewards the people who build their own advantage and then refuse to rent it out. That has been true for a long time. We exist to challenge who gets to have that advantage.
How we work
Small, direct, and unfinished in public
We talk to people ourselves. We do not run a tour of a product that is not ready to be seen. If there is a reason to go deeper, that conversation happens privately.
Founder
Sarkis Khachatryan
Co-founder & CEO
Sarkis Khachatryan is a rare operator with the skills of elite engineering and institutional-grade markets expertise. A co-founder who brings 14 years of building mission-critical systems and a relentless discipline to capital markets, along with a conviction that the incumbent model of market making, built on legacy technology and closed, opaque infrastructure, is ready to be reinvented.
As Co-Founder & CEO of EQVasset, a market making and trading infrastructure firm, Sarkis leads the firm’s market making strategy across equities, futures and options, setting quoting, inventory, and hedging policy with exceptional precision. He architected the firm’s risk framework (position and notional limits, per-instrument exposure caps, loss and drawdown thresholds, and kill-switch controls) and commands capital allocation, counterparty and broker relationships, and compliance oversight.
As a Series 65 qualified Investment Adviser Representative, Sarkis holds a commanding grasp of portfolio and asset risk management, position sizing and exposure control, volatility and drawdown analysis, and the fiduciary standards that govern trusted stewardship of capital.
Trained as a rocket scientist, with a Master of Engineering from Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Sarkis brings formidable quantitative rigor to pricing, inventory, and drawdown management. He built EQVasset’s trading and risk infrastructure from the ground up, free of the legacy constraints that slow incumbent firms, for real-time position tracking, P&L attribution, and pre-trade checks, drawing on a distinguished engineering career constructing high-throughput, low-latency systems where correctness and uptime carry direct financial consequences, including as Chief Technology Officer of Phonexa and as a principal backend engineer in Wells Fargo’s credit card division.
Unwilling to accept the status quo, Sarkis is building the systems, risk frameworks, and strategies that redefine what a modern market maker can be, engineered to perform when capital is on the line, leading with discipline, precision, and conviction.
How we work
The calls we make over and over
Independence
We are building our own company, not a feature inside someone else's. The point is to change the set of options, not to join the existing one.
Care with risk
Markets punish carelessness. Whatever we put in front of a firm has to respect that before it asks for trust.
Proof before promises
We would rather show less and mean it. Claims without evidence do not belong on this site, or in a first meeting.
Built to last
This is not a campaign. It is a company we expect to be working on for a long time, with the people who stay.
Direct conversation
No layers between you and the people doing the work. If you write, a person here reads it.
Looking for a partner for the long haul?
If you are weighing who to build with over the next few years, we would rather talk than perform.