Fragmented retail infrastructure
Independent traders assemble brokers, data feeds, charting platforms, prop accounts, and copy tools themselves. The trader becomes the integrator and risk manager.
Founders Round · Confidential
Institutional-grade infrastructure for independent algo traders & communities.
NorthStar is commercializing algo trading infrastructure for independent traders, trading educators, prop operators, and community-led trading businesses. The infrastructure exists. The opportunity is global commercialization.
Investment thesis
Big firms have the operating layer. Independent traders do not.
NorthStar is positioned around a simple gap: every component exists somewhere, but no platform ties the components into one professional, always-on environment for independent trading operators.
Automation is mainstream
AI accelerates strategy creation, prop firms create a path to capital, and more traders want automation. The bottleneck has shifted from strategy creation to reliable operation.
The hosted operating layer
NorthStar provides the professional environment: hosted infrastructure, broker connectivity, automation, execution, risk controls, education, and distribution through operators.
We are not asking investors to fund an idea. We are inviting them to commercialize a solution that already exists.
NorthStar FinTech Systems · Confidential investor explainer
The problem
The trader ends up being an IT person instead of trading.
Independent traders spend too much time assembling and babysitting technology instead of improving strategies and managing risk.
Five vendors, no glue
Broker, data feed, charting and algo stack, prop firm, and trade copier rarely operate as one coherent environment.
Always babysitting
Strategies cannot be left alone. Every hour watching infrastructure is an hour not spent improving or adding strategies.
Slow, far, fragile
Home systems sit far from the market on consumer internet. Delayed data and orders can turn a good decision into a missed price.
A hard ceiling
Even skilled traders hit a scaling wall because their setup becomes harder to operate as the business grows.
The gap
This was never one missing product. It was a missing layer.
Big firms turned proprietary algo infrastructure into an advantage. Independent firms and operators were left to duct-tape separate tools together.
Independent firms and operators today
- Separate tools that do not connect cleanly
- Little protection when something fails
- Build and maintain the setup yourself
- Hard to grow past a certain point
What big firms have had for years
- One connected operating environment
- Built-in risk and operational protection
- Engineers, support, and infrastructure behind the trading
- Room to grow without rebuilding the stack
Why now
Three forces have recently lined up.
Automated trading went mainstream, AI made strategies faster to build, and prop firms opened a new path to capital at the same time.
Algos went mainstream
What used to be a big-firm discipline has become a global retail behavior, often running on tools that were never designed for it.
AI speeds up building
Going from idea to working strategy is faster. The hard part is no longer only building the strategy; it is running it professionally.
Prop trading exploded
Funded-account and challenge programs created a new way for independent traders to pursue real capital, but the operating complexity remains.
Phase 1 platform
LaunchPad is the doorway. The ecosystem is inside.
Once inside NorthStar, strategies, broker connections, data, trading tools, education, communities, and future applications operate from one hosted environment. Nothing to install. Nothing to integrate. Everything stays running even when the trader logs off.
Gateway to the ecosystem
LaunchPad becomes the entry point to broker connectivity, simulation, funded trading, communities, education, and AI-assisted tools.
More than order routing
The full trading operation stays live. Strategies keep running and positions remain managed from NorthStar's protected infrastructure.
Each service is easier to adopt
Once the customer is inside, each new algo, challenge, room, or application is one click away with minimal setup friction.
Data is delayed
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Decision is delayed
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Execution is delayed
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Price is missed
Professional infrastructure does not guarantee profits. It helps ensure a strategy is not limited by home technology, distance from the market, or fragile integrations.
Commercial products
Three Phase 1 products turn the same infrastructure into multiple routes to revenue.
Hosted trading environment
Traders access a secure professional workspace from any device. Data, broker connections, automation, and execution operate from institutional-grade infrastructure close to the markets.
- Closer to the market
- Secure browser-based access
- Keep the trader's existing broker
Path to funded trading
LaunchPad gives traders a proving ground and permanent home where strategies can mature, pursue funded opportunities, and continue operating as they grow.
- Challenge hosting
- Strategy-to-challenge connection
- Success-aligned revenue
Turnkey operator business
Trading educators, influencers, prop operators, and communities can launch a branded trading business without building technology. NorthStar provides the infrastructure; they bring the audience.
- Operator branded platform
- Copy trading, funded trading, alerts, automation
- Recurring revenue for both parties
Market size
A large, underserved, and rapidly growing market.
NorthStar sits where automated trading, retail prop trading, and trader education overlap. All three point to the same firms and operators that are not being served by a unified infrastructure layer.
$7T+US daily volume
US stocks and futures trade trillions per day.
$25B+Automated trading market
Global software and services market growing double digits.
$8B+Retail prop market
Challenge-program and prop industry expanding worldwide.
5M+Active automated traders
Across futures, stocks, options, crypto, and related markets.
100K+Firms and operators
Small firms, educators, and family offices needing a real setup.
24/7Always-on demand
Crypto and global futures run beyond the normal trading day.
Figures reflect NorthStar management estimates using published market reports and broker-level data. Investor-facing deployment should connect each market statistic to source backup in the data room.
Platform partner strategy
NorthStar complements the platforms traders already use.
The goal is not to replace brokers, charting platforms, or exchanges. The goal is to make them more valuable by adding institutional-grade infrastructure and new recurring revenue opportunities.
| Category | Example platforms | Reachable audience |
|---|---|---|
| Brokers | Interactive Brokers, Alpaca, Public, Tradovate, AMP, Lightspeed, DAS | 6M+ |
| Charting and no-code | TradingView, MetaTrader, cTrader, NinjaTrader, TradeStation | 110M+ |
| Crypto exchanges | Coinbase, Kraken, Binance.US | 115M+ |
Total reachable audience230M+
Counts are partner-reported or management estimates and overlap across platforms. They show reachable scale, not unique or acquired users. Integration is staged; not all partners are live at launch.
Commercial rollout
A phased path to revenue.
NorthStar introduces complementary services that build on the same infrastructure, creating recurring revenue streams while minimizing development risk.
M3
Algo LaunchPad
First commercial platform available. Initial onboarding. Marketing campaign begins.
M4
Funded Algo Prop
First funded trading customers and second recurring revenue stream.
M4
Trading Rooms
First operator community launches. White-label business model begins.
M5+
Creator Lab & Academy
Education platform launches and operator ecosystem expands.
Build once, use twice.
The Phase 1 attraction that draws traders in becomes the Phase 2 technology that builds the ladder.
Business model
Three revenue engines. Multiple recurring streams.
NorthStar's revenue is grouped into categories that do not all rise and fall together: subscriptions, trading services, and trading communities.
Software & subscriptions
- LaunchPad platform subscription
- Algo Creator Lab subscription
- Data and execution access subscription
- Professional and onboarding services
Recurring revenue that does not depend on trading outcomes.
Trading services
- Brokerage and execution revenue
- Funded Algo Prop challenge fees
- Algo revenue share
- Capital-allocation revenue
Revenue grows as traders and operators grow.
Trading communities
- Trading Room operator subscription
- Trading Room member subscriptions
- Wholesale challenge packs to operators
- Migration of existing setups to LaunchPad
Each operator brings a ready-made audience onto the platform.
350Active traders to projected cash-flow breakeven
Unit economics
A conservative path to cash-flow breakeven.
Revenue per active trader is expected to range from $250 to $850 per month. Projections assume a conservative blended average of $495 per active trader, resulting in projected breakeven at approximately 350 active traders and roughly $2M annual revenue at breakeven.
Managed infrastructure
Secure, professionally managed strategy hosting close to the exchange.
Strategy development
Professional tools for designing, testing, and refining strategies.
Trading workspace
A live operating environment accessible from any device.
Marketplace & automation
Ready-to-deploy algorithms, automation tools, and premium add-ons.
Projected breakeven and revenue assumptions are management estimates, not guarantees. Investor review should include model sensitivity, churn assumptions, CAC, gross margin, hosting cost per active trader, and regulatory dependencies.
Why this team
Two generations of trading technologists.
The founding team has spent decades building live-money trading systems, broker-dealer infrastructure, cloud trading environments, market data systems, and algo platforms. The next generation adds high-performance computing, advanced mathematics, and modern platform engineering.
Then · The 1990s
Rob, Mike, and JT broke into Wall Street as self-taught technologists and rebuilt trading systems from the inside, supporting brokerages, institutional traders, and professional trading operations.
Now · One generation later
Lejla, Haris, and Mirsad bring the same technical drive through high-performance computing, advanced mathematics, market-data systems, order routing, and algo-platform execution.
Robert Provenzano
Founder
Nearly 30 years building automated trading operations across strategy, execution, risk, and infrastructure in live production environments.
JT D'Alessandro
V.P. Trading Software
25+ years engineering trading software at scale, including institutional copy-trading systems and Bloomberg Terminal applications.
Mike Uszynski
V.P. Trading Infrastructure
25+ years building low-latency trading infrastructure, remote trading platforms, early algo cloud migrations, and high-performance replay systems.
Lejla Omerovic
Backend Systems Chief
Market-data and order infrastructure, pub/sub backbone, tick capture, time-series analytics, and OMS order routing engine.
Haris Omerovic
Algo Systems Chief
Built Algo Creator Lab, NorthStar's algo platform, and Market-Streamer for clustered low-latency market-data endpoints.
Mirsad Buljubasic, PhD
Algo Academy Professor
PhD in Operations Research. Two-time ROADEF/EURO Challenge winner. Leads the Academy.
Isaac Reissman
Co-Founder | CEO
40+ years across investment banking, wealth management, proprietary trading, private equity, and capital formation.
Jane Ang
Commercial Growth
Decades building sales and marketing organizations, leadership teams, and customer acquisition across international markets.
Augustine Ang
Business Development
25-year career as systems analyst and technology manager, leading complex technology initiatives across the USA and Asia.
Build-out strategy
This founders round transforms proven technology into a recurring-revenue business.
The technology is built. The round funds commercialization. Future growth is designed to be funded by recurring revenue rather than continual equity raises.
Commercialize
- Launch Algo LaunchPad
- International expansion
- Onboard operators and communities
- Launch funded Algo Prop Challenges
- Launch Evening Edge trading room
- Begin recurring subscription revenue
Increase adoption
- Launch Creator Lab & Academy
- Expand into retail trader education
- Grow operator partnerships
- Increase recurring subscriptions
Broaden platform
- AI-assisted coaching and support
- USA expansion Introducing Broker path
- Enterprise partnerships
- New platform services
- Revenue-funded growth
Appendix · Case study
First commercial deployment: Evening Edge.
NorthStar's commercialization plan begins with a real trading community already identified and engaged. The first deployment is intended to validate the business model and establish a repeatable blueprint for future operators.
Month 4 deployment
Initial workflows, operator tools, and customer experience are being prepared as the first commercial deployment.
Established educator audience
An established trading educator with an existing audience provides the first commercial use case for the platform.
Repeatable onboarding model
The first operator becomes a reference customer and demonstrates the platform in a live commercial environment.
The goal is not one operator. The goal is a repeatable onboarding process that can be replicated across hundreds of trading communities worldwide.
Founders round
The $650,000 Founders Round funds commercial launch, customer acquisition, and recurring revenue beginning in Month 3.
NorthStar's opportunity is to turn production-tested trading technology into a scalable business serving independent traders, operators, and trading communities worldwide. The infrastructure exists. The opportunity is commercialization.
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Investor FAQ
Questions the closer site should answer before the next call.
Is NorthStar competing with brokers and charting platforms?
No. The platform strategy is complementary. NorthStar integrates with the platforms traders already use and adds the professional operating environment around them.
What makes this different from trader education?
Education alone does not provide the institutional-grade system to operate on. NorthStar is the campus where the learning, testing, execution, risk controls, and operator business happen.
Why does the model use operators and trading communities?
Operators already have audiences. NorthStar provides the infrastructure that lets those operators add subscriptions, funded trading, automation, alerts, custom tools, and white-label services without building the technology themselves.
What is the breakeven assumption?
The deck assumes a blended average of $495 monthly revenue per active trader, with projected cash-flow breakeven at approximately 350 active traders and about $2M annual revenue at breakeven.
What should be added before investor distribution?
Recommended additions: audited or accountant-reviewed financial model, use-of-proceeds table, capitalization table, legal offering language, regulatory roadmap, source backup for market-size claims, and signed customer/operator pipeline evidence where available.
Disclosures
Confidentiality, forward-looking statements, and investment risk.
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Investment and trading risk
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Regulatory and commercial dependencies
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