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Anish Karyat Spent Two Decades Teaching Bonds to Move Faster
After 15 years at Jane Street and a turn leading systematic credit at Citadel Securities, Anish Karyat joined former colleagues at Moment. His assignment is familiar in principle and larger in scope: turn the bond market's hard-won human judgment into software.
OpenYield
OpenYield is a New York-based fintech operating an automated, all-to-all bond marketplace that brings an equity-like trading experience to fixed income. A FINRA-registered broker-dealer and SEC-registered alternative trading system (ATS), it offers firm, executable quotes with no minimum trade sizes across corporate bonds, municipal bonds and U.S. Treasurys, connected to brokerages, advisors, asset managers and market makers through API-first infrastructure.
Jonathan Birnbaum
Jonathan Birnbaum is the founder and CEO of OpenYield, a New York-based fixed income marketplace that brings an equity-like, fully automated trading experience to bonds. A former US credit trading COO at Morgan Stanley and fixed income execution lead at Bridgewater Associates, he later helped build consumer investing platforms as general manager of SoFi Invest and founding COO of Domain Money. He founded OpenYield in 2023 to make bonds cheap and easy to trade for retail investors, backed by a 2026 Series A of more than $6 million from investors including LeveL Markets, Draper Associates, Canapi Ventures and Clocktower Ventures.
Moment
Moment is a New York fintech building the AI operating system for investment management. Founded in 2022 by former Citadel quants, it unifies trading, portfolio management, research, reporting, and compliance for fixed income and beyond into a single platform with an API layer. In roughly 18 months it grew from powering $300 billion to more than $10 trillion in client assets, working with firms like Edward Jones, LPL Financial, and Hightower Advisors. The company has raised $134 million across rounds led by Index Ventures, with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, and others.
Dylan Parker
Dylan Parker is the co-founder and CEO of Moment, the AI operating system for investment management. A former Citadel Securities and Jane Street fixed income quant, he and two Harvard friends set out to drag the $150-trillion bond market out of spreadsheets and chat threads. In under four years Moment went from $300 billion to over $10 trillion in client assets monitored and raised $134 million across three rounds, counting Edward Jones, LPL Financial, and Hightower Advisors as customers.