# Arbital

[Arbital on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/arbital)

Startup · 3 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://www.arbital.xyz/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/arbital)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arbitalxyz/)
- [X](https://x.com/arbital_xyz)

## About

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## 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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pangestukaron/) · [X](https://x.com/pangestu_karon)

### 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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-mulyawan-974ab7252?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios) · [X](https://x.com/0xstevezilla)

### 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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-owen-202a9821a/) · [X](https://x.com/0xvincent_eth)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/arbital) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Karon Pangestu](https://hacklab.so/karon-pangestu) — Founder/CEO (Present)
- [Steven Mulyawan](https://hacklab.so/steven-mulyawan) — Founder/COO (Present)
- [Vincent Owen Toniwan](https://hacklab.so/vincent-owen-toniwan) — Founder/CTO (Present)