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QFEX

QFEX is the 24/7 exchange for traditional financial markets. We let you trade US equities, commodities and FX pairs with (or without) leverages of up to 100x. On QFEX, UX comes first: brokerless market access, seamless integration with traditional payment rails, and ultra-efficient Perpetual Futures offered over all asset classes. Trading has never been simpler, cheaper or fairer than with QFEX. Founded by Quants and Engineers from Citadel & Tower Research who saw an opportunity to make markets

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Y Combinator
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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QFEX is the 24/7 exchange for traditional financial markets. We let you trade US equities, commodities and FX pairs with (or without) leverages of up to 100x. On QFEX, UX comes first: brokerless market access, seamless integration with traditional payment rails, and ultra-efficient Perpetual Futures offered over all asset classes. Trading has never been simpler, cheaper or fairer than with QFEX. Founded by Quants and Engineers from Citadel & Tower Research who saw an opportunity to make markets

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QFEX is classified as Fintech from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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ultra-efficient Perpetual FuturesPerpetual Futurestraditional financial marketsUS equitiesbrokerless market accesstraditional payment railscommoditiesUXQFEX
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to QFEX

Fintech · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Alpha Vantage

match 79

Alpha Vantage provides enterprise-grade financial market data through a set of powerful and developer-friendly data APIs and spreadsheets. Whether you need traditional asset classes (e.g., stocks, ETFs, commodities), economic metrics, foreign exchange rates, cryptocurrencies, fundamental data or even technical indicators, Alpha Vantage is your one-stop shop for global market data delivered through REST APIs.

shared extracted concepts: commodities; shared product terms: financial, market, traditional, asset; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Mochatrade

match 73

Mochatrade lets global traders trade perpetual futures on US stocks with up to 20x leverage. Access 50+ US stocks including TSLA, NVDA, AAPL. Mocha is fully self-custodial and no US brokerage account is needed. Traders on-ramp in local currencies and get professional-grade execution on the world's most liquid equities. Starting with India (140M+ demat account holders), and expanding across other markets.

shared product terms: trade, perpetual, future, us; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Scalar Field

match 72

We’re building the agentic trading desk for the new operating system of markets. I used to be a trader at Tower Research and Goldman Sachs, and I’m building Scalar Field with my co-founder Ramakant, who led engineering teams at Microsoft. We’ve both spent our careers at the intersection of finance and technology, and we’re using that experience to rethink how markets are analyzed, tested, and traded in the age of agents. Scalar Field is built around a simple belief: over the next few years, agen

shared extracted concept terms: market; shared product terms: market, over, trad, engineer; shared product theme: finance and payments; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

AlgoTest

match 60

AlgoTest is an algorithmic options trading platform for Indian retail traders. For the first time ever, day traders will be able to trade using the same technology as the top hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms of the world. The company is founded by Raghav Malik (Financial Engineering @ Columbia Univ), an HFT technologist and former options market-maker in the US.

shared product terms: trad, trade, found, financial; same category: Fintech; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Freeport Markets

match 57

Freeport is a trading platform for pre-IPO shares, equities, crypto, and perpetual futures. Our AI analysts turn trusted social and financial media into a real-time feed of market-moving news and actionable trade ideas.

shared product terms: trad, equitie, perpetual, future; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Rio

match 48

Rio is the premier stablecoin liquidity provider for the LATAM market. We enable access to stablecoins for financial innovators to scale their products.

shared extracted concept terms: financial, market; shared product terms: market, acces, financial; same category: Fintech; shared affiliation: Y Combinator