Institutional Markets
Ornn is building the financial infrastructure for the compute economy, providing reference pricing, market intelligence, capacity finance, and compute access for GPU compute. It serves buyers, sellers, and capital providers in the AI compute market, including institutions seeking to price, finance, and hedge compute the way commodities like oil are traded.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About Ornn
Ornn describes itself as 'The Foundation of the Compute Market,' building financial infrastructure to make GPU compute something that can be priced, financed, and hedged with confidence. Its flagship product is the OCPI (Ornn Compute Price Index), a reference price built on transaction-based data tracking live traded spot prices for GPU compute across hardware types such as H100, H200, B200, and B300, listed on Bloomberg. Ornn's product suite includes Ornn Compute Access (capacity for training, inference, and infrastructure-scale workloads) and Ornn Data (market measurement and intelligence covering pricing, volatility, supply, and demand). The company operates with a compliant architecture including complete KYC/AML protocols, combining physical and financial infrastructure into one compute platform. Ornn recently raised $33M led by A16Z and has been covered by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg. Its clients include buyers, sellers, and capital providers across the compute economy.
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About the Role
You run institutional sales trading for cash-settled OCPI swaps, covering hedge funds and other institutional counterparties from prospecting through execution. You build relationships with capital allocators, lead data licensing sales to consulting firms and enterprises, manage the OCPI licensing pipeline, and explain technical products to sophisticated buyers.
Requirements
- Experience on an institutional sales trading or institutional sales desk covering hedge funds, ideally in a derivatives product
- Ability to explain technical products to sophisticated buyers
- Entrepreneurial orientation
- Prior experience selling index licenses, benchmarks, or market data is a plus
- Startup or zero-to-one experience, particularly at a financial infrastructure company, is a plus
- A network among systematic or discretionary macro funds, commodity funds, or multi-strategy pod shops is a plus
Responsibilities
- Run an institutional sales trading desk for cash-settled OCPI swaps
- Cover hedge funds and other institutional counterparties
- Handle the workflow from prospecting through trade execution
- Build and maintain relationships with capital allocators trading AI and infrastructure themes
- Lead data licensing sales into consulting firms, hyperscalers, neoclouds, and Fortune 500 enterprises
- Own the OCPI licensing pipeline
- Develop command of the OCPI methodology, GPU compute market structure, and underlying asset pricing
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Health coverage
- Free meals