Jump Trading

Jump traces its origins to 1999, when University of Illinois alumni Bill DiSomma and Paul Gurinas founded the firm after working as futures traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. It is headquartered in Chicago and operates as a privately held proprietary trading business, using its own capital rather than managing external client assets.

The firm combines quantitative research, trading, engineering, and applied AI/ML across global financial markets. Its technology work spans custom hardware, ASICs, FPGAs, networking, distributed systems, simulation, and high-performance software, with researchers and engineers working closely with trading teams.

Jump is especially differentiated by the scale of its in-house infrastructure and research operation. Its public materials cite trading across hundreds of global exchanges, 10,000+ compute nodes, and 5 million+ daily simulations. Jump Crypto extends the group’s activities into digital-asset trading, open-source infrastructure, and investment.