Built inside the financial world.
VARRD builds inside clearing firms, brokers and operations desks, on the data and workflows general LLMs never see. We strip out what is theirs and bring the rest forward: ideas tested before they trade, exceptions cleared before morning, risk seen before the loss.
The data and workflows general LLMs do not have access to.
Assets that are very hard to attain, and the years of process behind them.
Three of the assets we build on
VARRD Validation
500+ traders. 20,000 hypotheses.
Fine-tuned on their tests, with guardrails built from what they found, to help validate ideas to trade off of.
VARRD Ops
Years of exceptions.
Built off the exception handling operations desks do, every night.
VARRD Risk
Proprietary black swan data.
Built off proprietary data from black swan events. AIs trained on it and deployed proactively, as surveillance for the next one.
How we build
Built inside the moat. Offered outside it.
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Access
We work inside clearing firms, brokers and desks, with their data and their processes.
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Build
We build products on the accumulated assets behind those moats.
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Strip
We strip out the proprietary data. Nothing of theirs leaves.
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Offer
We offer what is left to the rest of the financial world.
Products
What we offer today.
Quant research
VARRD Validation
Our quant AI. It takes ideas and turns them into quantifiable formulas, then tests them against decades of data with hard guardrails against overfitting. A strict system the AI can use but not make up, doing math it cannot hallucinate. So you can see whether an idea has an edge.
Operations desk
VARRD Ops
An operations desk platform that does the internal exception handling around the clock, built off some of the best data in the business.
Risk management
VARRD Risk
Risk management, turned from reactive to proactive. AI trained on black swan events, working around the clock on your behalf.
VARRD Capital
A trading fund, from futures to prediction markets.
VARRD Capital is the fund inside VARRD. It trades on the same tools we offer: every idea tested before it trades, every position watched around the clock.
Company
The founders.
VARRD was built by derivatives traders and engineers who spent years working alongside one of the most successful futures trading firms of the past 40 years, dissecting the research process that turned raw market intuition into systematic, repeatable edges.
VARRD is that process, rebuilt from the ground up with AI. It started with research. It now runs operations desks and risk, for the firms that run the financial world and for anyone who wants the same caliber of work.
Augie Mazza
Co-Founder
Derivatives trader and lifelong entrepreneur with deep market intuition shaped by his father, one of the top macro derivatives traders globally. Has been building with AI models since 2018. His university has him review their AI curriculum every year.
Ben Harrington
Co-Founder
Derivatives trader with an Economics degree with a focus in quantitative finance from Princeton and D1 All-American honors, bringing both analytical precision and incredible discipline to the team. Has invested countless hours refining the validation engine, ensuring its outputs meet the highest standards of statistical rigor and real-market reliability.
Henry Wedbush
Founding Member
Princeton Economics degree with D1 All-American honors, bringing both market knowledge and competitive intensity to the team. Leads the company's business and partnership efforts, aligning VARRD's development with the needs of enterprise clients.