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History of Exegy

Building on
Continued Innovation

Exegy was created to commercialize hardware-accelerated computing technology developed at the School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. The company used field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology to develop ticker plants—appliances that normalize, enrich, and filter real-time financial market data. Continued product improvements have led to over 150 domestic and international patents.

In 2021, with the backing of Marlin Equity Partners, Exegy merged with Vela Trading Systems LLC. Operating as Exegy, Inc., the combined company is a dominant provider of premier data and execution platforms, along with managed services for electronic trading powered by proprietary hardware-acceleration, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and service automation technologies. 

In addition to technical innovation, we recognized the need for industry support in capacity planning, partnering with the Financial Information Forum (FIF) to publish real-time measurements of market data feed rates. Our output, MarketDataPeaks, encourages more robust design of trading infrastructure and electronic markets overall.

Who we are

Leading the Way in Democratizing Capital Markets Technology

Throughout its history, Exegy has consistently disrupted the financial markets technology space by making game-changing innovations more commercially available.

Ever since the 2006 launch of the Exegy Ticker Plant, our engineers and data scientists have enabled firms of all sizes to compete in markets that once were open only to large market players with extensive R&D budgets.

With the expansion and integration of our product portfolio, Exegy can meet firms’ existing needs and scale up as they grow and their strategies change. Our managed services approach ensures that as we focus on maintaining your infrastructure, your resources can be put to better use—accelerating growth.

The capital markets and engineering innovators who lead Exegy are committed to continuing this process of disruption and democratization.

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175
Patents since 2003
25%
Employees have been at Exegy for a decade or more
29%
Employees have advanced degrees

Strategic Partners

Partnering with Industry Leaders

Our strategic partnerships with world-class customers and industry leaders have fueled our culture of innovation. We work with the industry’s leading hosting, trading, database, and hardware providers to build seamless solutions that help firms optimize their market data infrastructure.

Ready to join our team? Learn more about career opportunities at Exegy.

Resources

On top of every tick.

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Insights from the Capital Markets Innovation Summit | New York 2026

Preparing for Intelligent, Continuous, and Fragmented Markets On September 10, Exegy hosted the Capital Markets Innovation Summit in New York, where leaders from across the industry discussed how artificial intelligence,…

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Exegy and MarketsIO Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Modern Enterprise Market Data Infrastructure

The partnership offers a de-risked, readily achievable path to modern market data infrastructure across the latency spectrum. St. Louis / London / New York / Chicago – September 10, 2026…

Market Data Fragmentation and the 24/5 Trading Era

What’s Actually Changed Institutional trading isn’t expanding along one line anymore. New asset classes, new geographies, and 24/5 trading hours are all showing up at once. The result? Market data…

Press Releases

Exegy and MarketsIO Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Modern Enterprise Market Data Infrastructure

The partnership offers a de-risked, readily achievable path to modern market data infrastructure across the latency spectrum. St. Louis / London / New York / Chicago – September 10, 2026…

Capital Markets Operational Agility More Important Than Scale in 2026 

New Exegy research shows that the convergence of expansion across asset classes, geographies, and trading hours is costing firms their competitive edge  New York, Chicago, London — August 18th, 2026 — New research from Exegy, a leading provider of…