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This looks pretty good. You already have competitors out there like Collective2. It'd be nice if you guys can get options data with IV; it's probably harder to get data licenses for historical options data but it'll differentiate you guys from the rest of the competition.

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The data is more expensive, but the other challenge is the complexity and volume of the data. Our thought is to build an end-to-end system on equity and then add other instrument types.

Shameless plug, but Bloomberg's Data License product has, for example, all exchange traded options with full greeks, IV, etc available with many years of historical data among plenty of other asset classes. Typical sales are done to Terminal customers, but the team is always open to talking to businesses with a different model.

Very cool to hear from you, and to learn that Bloomberg is open minded about new models. I'd love to learn more - my email is on my profile if you want to drop me a line.

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