countRS is a regulated European venue that enables institutional investors to trade discrete events—such as sovereign risk, gas storage levels, and pre-IPO valuations—as direct, tradable assets. The platform replaces opaque bilateral contracts and proxy hedges with clean, efficient event exposure, collapsing layers of intermediaries into a single streamlined route. Early access is currently available for qualified institutions.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
European institutional investors face significant challenges when seeking exposure to discrete events—such as sovereign risk, gas storage levels, or pre-IPO valuations—that drive capital-allocation decisions. The historical alternatives, bilateral contracts and proxy hedges, are routed through layers of intermediaries, making the process operationally complex, slow, opaque, and indirect. No instrument currently provides clean, direct exposure to event payoffs.
Solution
countRS provides a regulated European venue that turns discrete events into tradable assets, giving institutional investors direct and clean exposure to the outcomes that move markets. The platform collapses the inefficient, opaque, and indirect route of OTC instruments into a single streamlined channel, eliminating the need for proxy hedges and intermediary layers. By standing directly between institutions and the events they need to trade, countRS enables more efficient capital allocation and reduces operational complexity. The venue is designed specifically for Europe's institutional investor community, offering a compliant and transparent alternative to existing market structures.
Target Audience
Primary customers are European institutional investors, including asset managers, hedge funds, and treasury desks, who need direct and efficient exposure to discrete market-moving events.
Features
- Regulated European trading venue purpose-built for event-based assets
- Direct exposure to discrete outcomes including sovereign risk, gas storage levels, and pre-IPO valuations
- Replaces bilateral contracts and proxy hedges with a single, streamlined trading route
- Eliminates layers of intermediaries, reducing operational complexity and cost
- Launch candidates targeting specific exposures institutions want to hedge but currently cannot