# Christina Qi

> Christina Qi is the CEO of Databento, an on-demand market-data platform for quants and asset managers, and a founding partner of Domeyard LP, one of the longest-running high-frequency trading hedge funds in the world. She started Domeyard from an MIT dorm room with $1,000 in savings, grew it to trade billions of dollars a day, then wound it down and built Databento to fix the broken market-data infrastructure that had frustrated her for a decade. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, MIT trustee, and financial-literacy advocate, Qi turned a rough start into a career spent lowering the barriers to Wall Street for everyone else.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Databento
- **Organizations:** Databento, Domeyard LP, MIT Corporation, Invest in Girls, 100 Women in Finance
- **From:** Utah, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. in Management Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), CAIA Charterholder, CAIA Association
- **Known for:** Founded Domeyard LP, one of the longest-running HFT hedge funds, trading up to $7.1 billion per day., Founded and leads Databento, a self-service, pay-as-you-go market-data platform., Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and Forbes 30 Under 30 board member.

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Founds Domeyard LP from an MIT dorm room with roughly $1,000 in savings and two co-founders.
- **2013** — Graduates from MIT with a B.S. in Management Science; begins lecturing at MIT.
- **2014** — Begins guest-lecturing in Nobel Laureate Robert Merton's Retirement Finance course at MIT.
- **2015** — Domeyard fully launches after three years of build-out; earns CAIA charter.
- **2019** — Co-founds Databento to fix the market-data problems she hit at Domeyard.
- **2021** — Writes a memoir about building Domeyard, the FBI, and hedge-fund life ('Misadventures of a Hedge Fund Manager' / The Finance Snake).
- **2022** — Winds down Domeyard after roughly a decade amid strategy and scaling headwinds.
- **2024** — Databento raises a Series A (reported around October 2024).
- **2025** — Receives the UBS Female Founder Award for her work at Databento.

## Achievements

- Founded Domeyard LP, one of the longest-running HFT hedge funds, trading up to $7.1 billion per day.
- Founded and leads Databento, a self-service, pay-as-you-go market-data platform.
- Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and Forbes 30 Under 30 board member.
- Member of the MIT Corporation (Board of Trustees) and its Development Committee.
- Co-Chair of the Board of Invest in Girls, expanding financial literacy for underserved students.
- 2025 UBS Female Founder Award recipient.
- Domeyard is taught as a case study at Harvard Business School and other universities.
- Featured on the front page of Forbes and Nikkei; quoted in WSJ, Bloomberg, CNN, NBC, and the Financial Times.

## Latest updates

- **2025** — Received the UBS Female Founder Award for building Databento.
- **2024-10** — Databento reported a Series A raise as it scaled its self-service market-data platform.

## Links

- Website: https://www.christinaqi.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinaqi
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/christinaqi
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/christinaqi
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/databento/

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Last updated: 2026-07-01