Our Long-Term Vision
We believe in building a truly interconnected crypto ecosystem, one that mirrors the success of global markets like FX, where liquidity is accessible across venues and settlement risk is minimized through robust, interoperable solutions. Our long-term vision is simple: to create the infrastructure that allows institutional trading to scale efficiently and securely. By removing unnecessary obstacles and providing an open network where liquidity can flow freely, we can help trading firms, exchanges, custodians, and other stakeholders thrive together.
The goal is not just to solve today’s problems but to create the foundation for the next wave of market participants institutions that demand regulatory compliance, liquidity access, and efficient capital management. At BridgePort, we believe that interoperability is the key to unlocking the future of institutional crypto trading, and our middleware is designed to be the backbone of that future.
Our Mission
At BridgePort, we don’t see disparate, isolated pieces within the institutional crypto ecosystem. We see opportunities to bring them together. Whether it’s custodians, exchanges, trading firms, or prime brokers, the lack of interoperability between these stakeholders has been a major roadblock to growth. Our middleware acts as the ‘bridge’ that brings disparate systems into harmony, creating a more unified, scalable, and liquid market.
The current state of siloed solutions like custodial walled gardens forces participants to operate in fragmented markets, leading to inefficiencies and liquidity bottlenecks. This isn’t just a technical problem, it’s a market problem. Fragmentation impacts liquidity on order books, widens spreads, and hampers the development of vibrant markets.
BridgePort’s middleware solves this by enabling seamless communication and capital allocation across platforms, trading venues, and custodians. We offer a solution that promotes interoperability, making it easier for institutions to operate in a fragmented market without needing to "pick a winner" or commit to a single siloed provider.
Backed by Leading Instutitions
About Us
BridgePort is pioneering the next generation of market infrastructure for digital assets. Founded by a team with decades of experience in building fixed income and FX trading platforms for the world's largest traditional financial institutions, we are solving the critical challenges of capital inefficiency, prefunding, and fragmented liquidity inherent in today's crypto markets.
The burgeoning institutional crypto market currently operates with significant friction. Firms grapple with capital locked in prefunding requirements, opaque credit risk across disparate venues, and the operational complexities of managing diverse digital asset portfolios. This prevents widespread adoption by large-scale participants who demand the robust, transparent, and efficient risk management solutions found in mature asset classes.
Our secure, agnostic middleware acts as the vital institutional coordination layer, connecting exchanges, custodians, and trading firms for streamlined capital allocation and post-trade processes. Through real-time messaging and coordinated collateral management, BridgePort eliminates the need for prefunding and directly addresses credit and settlement risk. Our platform enhances capital efficiency for trading firms and provides essential interoperability across the institutional crypto ecosystem.
Our leadership team each have decades of experience in market structure technology having worked at global banks and low-latency execution venues such as Goldman Sachs and CME Group's EBS and BrokerTec. The team brings a unique blend of traditional finance rigor and digital asset innovation, This deep understanding of regulated OTC products and ultra-low latency systems uniquely positions us to engineer the resilient, data-driven automation and seamless workflow integrations essential for digital asset markets to mature at scale.
Executive Team
Led by veterans of high-velocity trading on OTC platforms, our executive team blends deep market expertise with pioneering crypto infrastructure innovation.
Chief Executive Officer
Nirup Ramalingam
Chief Commercial Officer
Chris Soriano
Chief Technology Officer
Mike Merold
Chief Product Officer
Steve Bartfield