Arbital
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About Arbital
YC company profile
The social trading app for stocks, memes, and perps
Arbital lets you trade perps, memes, stocks, and run market-making strategies from one place. In our first 7 months, 2,700 traders have traded $1.35B in volume through Arbital, and we're now doing $435M/month.
We're building towards a social, mobile-first trading app that brings tokenized equities, crypto, and perps to everyone.
- YC batch: Summer 2026
- Founded: 2025
- Team size: 3
- Location: San Francisco
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Fintech
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Fintech, Crypto / Web3, Investing, Trading, AI
- YC partner: Harshita Arora
Founders
Karon Pangestu — Founder/CEO
Co-founder at Arbital. Head of Growth and first non-engineering hire at Aevo, where I led growth, marketing, and product - helping scale the exchange from $1B to ~$100B in cumulative trading volume, and growing DAU from 1K to 30K in five months. Helped take the company public via token launch (token now listed on Binance and Bybit, ~$3.8B ATH valuation). Previously co-founded Launchy, a crypto media platform reaching 20K+ builders and investors. BA in Mathematics & Statistics, LSE.
Steven Mulyawan — Founder/COO
Co-founder at Arbital. Led BD and partnerships at Aevo across Asia, personally building and owning relationships with major KOLs, agencies, and high-net-worth traders - the network we now tap directly to drive Arbital's growth. Onboarded 10,000+ traders during Aevo's scale from $1B to ~$100B in cumulative volume.
Vincent Owen Toniwan — Founder/CTO
Co-founder at Arbital. Built and ran the backend and market-making infrastructure that powered Aevo as it scaled from $1B to ~$100B in cumulative volume - driving latency down to <2ms at 100k events/s. Built Aevo Degen from scratch, one of the first exchanges offering up to 1,000x leverage. Previously led backend at N1 (terminal.trade) and MEV infrastructure at Bitwyre.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.