Sponsors

CppCon wishes to thank all of the sponsors that make CppCon possible. Read the Sponsorship Prospectus to find out how you can be listed on this page.

Platinum Sponsor

Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We build the fastest and most powerful trading systems in the industry by combining infinite data sources and sophisticated C++ coding with innovative engineering and problem solving. We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on options trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together.

Check out what Susquehanna is hiring for.

Gold Sponsors

	Boost is a collection of free, peer-reviewed, portable C++ source libraries maintained by an open community of world-class engineers. For more than a quarter century, Boost has set the standard for C++ library engineering. From high performance containers and networking to numerical computing and coroutines. Smart pointers, filesystem, regex, variant: they became part of modern C++ because the Boost community built them first and proved they belonged there.The world’s most demanding organizations use Boost. Aerospace, defense, high frequency trading systems, video games, large scale database engines. And through the Boost Software License, every line of every library is freely available for commercial and open source use alike, with no obligation to release your code. Great engineering compounds. Boost is where the next generation of C++ takes shape.
	Citadel Securities is a leading global market maker that provides institutional and retail investors with the liquidity they need to execute transactions in all market conditions across a broad array of equity and fixed income products. At Citadel Securities, the brightest minds in finance, science and technology use next-generation analytics to solve the market’s most critical challenges, turn big ideas into real-world outcomes and accelerate their careers. For more information, visit CitadelSecurities.com.
	Write the code that trades the world. At Jump Trading, we build the systems that power global markets. These systems depend on speed, scale, and precision. Our engineers write high-performance C++ that runs in production across hundreds of exchanges and billions of messages a day.We design and optimize systems from the ground up: simulation frameworks, custom hardware, research infrastructure, and trading platforms. The engineers who thrive here are total systems thinkers. They want to understand how everything connects and how to make it better.If that sounds like your kind of problem set, check out jumptrading.com/careers.
	Optiver is a tech-driven global market maker. Engineering and building are at the heart of what we do. Our teams work on complex, high-performance problems every day, from designing low-latency systems to optimizing infrastructure at scale, all to help make markets more efficient, stable and accessible. With nearly 2,000 employees across eleven offices, we provide liquidity on major exchanges worldwide through a wide range of products.

Silver Sponsors

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm allocating internal capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Our collective expertise spans traders, engineers, and technologists, unified by an unwavering dedication to enhance our efficiency as a premier liquidity provider for global listed derivatives. We leverage cutting edge execution and pricing technologies to elevate and improve how financial markets operate.

Our C++ engineers design and build ultra-low latency systems, solving some of the hardest challenges in our industry. They push the boundaries of what’s possible in modern C++, continuously evolving our trading infrastructure and implementing algorithms with maximum precision and efficiency.

Bronze Sponsors

Making Waves in Tech and Trading

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data-driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market maker, meaning that we provide competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell.

Our C++ engineers apply their skills to low-latency trading by working directly with Traders and Researchers on the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and delivery of our proprietary options market-making platform and the strategies that run on it. They build software that incorporates vast amounts of data to power sophisticated, hardware-
accelerated trading strategies that aim to capture market opportunities ahead of the competition. These teams are made up of motivated self-starters who contribute to the architecture and evolution of our trading systems and leverage the latest technologies to improve performance.

If you’re excited by impactful engineering in a fast-paced environment, there’s no better place to grow than Akuna.

Discover opportunities at Akuna Capital!

Bloomberg is building the world’s most trusted information network for financial professionals. Our 9,000+ dedicated engineers are advancing and building new systems for the Bloomberg Terminal to solve complex, real-world problems. C++ is one of our core programming languages. We constantly push the language to its limits because our code must be scalable, reliable, and extremely fast — especially since every microsecond counts in finance. Our C++ experts build everything from low-level libraries and components to some of the world’s most performant financial applications, analytics, and trading systems. They also contribute to the C++ Standards Committee (WG21). TechAtBloomberg.com/cplusplus

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. Caterpillar does business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Power & Energy – and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.

At Caterpillar, everyday people become innovators, and their unique skillsets and perspectives have a global impact. With more than 4 million products, 1.6 million connected assets, and the world’s largest autonomous truck fleet at work around the world, it is no secret that our people are leading the industry. Here, you can do the work that matters: https://careers.caterpillar.com/en/

Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology. For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide – making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient.

Explore opportunities at Chicago Trading Company

EngFlow is transforming the C++ development experience, shifting CI left: directly at the developer’s fingertips. Discover accelerated CMake, Bazel, Soong, AOSP, and Buck2 builds. Whether it’s in the cloud or hybrid on-prem, our custom tailored remote build execution and remote caching solutions keep engineers in flow. Created by developers, for developers, we empower them to focus on what they do best — coding. Join a thriving community that’s reclaiming their time, boosting workflows, and truly enjoying C++ every day.

JetBrains creates intelligent software development tools trusted by over 15 million users and 88 Fortune Global Top 100 companies. Its lineup of more than 30 products includes award-winning IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm, as well as the JetBrains AI-powered coding assistant, coding agent Junie, Mellum, JetBrains’ focal LLM, purpose-built for code-related tasks, and productivity-boosting team tools like YouTrack, Qodana, and TeamCity. JetBrains is also the creator of Kotlin, a cross-platform language used by more than 2.5 million developers a year. The company is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and has offices worldwide, employing over 2,200 professionals.

At JetBrains, we’re passionate about helping developers boost their productivity by simplifying complex tasks and automating routine ones. CLion, our cross-platform IDE for C and C++, provides a unified experience and gets you ready to start your projects out of the box. Whether you’re building large-scale applications or exploring C and C++ for the first time, CLion gives everything you need to stay productive, focused, and in control: deep language understanding with intelligent code assistance, comprehensive build system support, integrated unit testing frameworks, advanced debugging with insights into compile-time evaluations, and safe refactoring tools.

CLion works natively with AI agents such as Junie by JetBrains, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex. You can also integrate third-party agents like Cursor, Google Gemini, Qwen Code, or your company’s internal AI agent via the Agent Client Protocol.

Microsoft provides C++ developers the tools they need to be productive, no matter what platforms you are targeting and developing on.

Develop with the entire toolset from initial design to final deployment with Visual Studio. Visual Studio Code combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle, available cross-platform and built on open source. Simplify your dependency management with vcpkg: a C++ package manager for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Find the tools that support every part of your workflow and bring your community together with GitHub.

Come to the Microsoft exhibitor room to learn about how our tools can make your development process as smooth as it can be.

Old Mission is a global proprietary trading firm that leverages state-of-the-art technology and research to identify and execute profitable trading strategies across multiple asset classes around the world. Our offices in Chicago, New York, and London are all composed of naturally curious individuals who thrive in a team environment and constantly strive for improvement.

We’re Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) — a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all asset classes across the world. United by a passion for data, research, technology, and trading, we aim to deliver exceptional returns for our investors. With 15 offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and North America, we’re truly global. At QRT, C++ sits at the core of our high-performance systems. Our alpha is recognised across the industry for blending advanced algorithms with very low latency. We’re continuously exploring the latest standards and language features to squeeze out every nanosecond and stay ahead. We’re hiring skilled C++ developers to help us push the boundaries of performance, evolve our trading infrastructure, and implement algorithms with maximum efficiency.

	Squarepoint is a global quantitative investment firm that uses systematic strategies and discretionary strategies across financial markets to achieve high-quality returns for our clients. We are a data-driven firm and technology is critical to our success. We design, build, and operate our own state-of-the-art systems, from high performance automated trading platforms to large scale data science and compute farms. We use C++ to build most of our low latency and high-performance systems, which are directly responsible for executing the critical trading path. Our C++ devs are driving the design and implementation of trading frameworks, centralized services processing massive volumes of data, and other high-volume distributed applications at Squarepoint. We look forward to seeing you at CppCon 2025 and invite you to explore here to learn more about Squarepoint.
	think-cell has established its product as the world’s leading software for creating data-driven business presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. Since our founding in 2002, we have helped more than 1.3 million users at over 35,000 companies build their presentations faster and more efficiently. Our mission is to streamline every aspect of presentation creation, providing the tools users need to quickly and accurately create any slide, from agendas and process flows to complex data-driven charts. Key elements of ensuring productivity are our intuitive user interface, our unique layout algorithm, and our software’s seamless integration with Microsoft Office. We work on challenging visualization problems, we reverse-engineer Microsoft’s code, and we reinvent how slides are created. As think-cell is the only German company funding the C++ ISO committee delegation, the components we invent here have a good chance of being incorporated into the standard. Learn more about how we use C++ in our talks and publications.
	Many Teams. One Home. Powered by a high-performance technology platform, Tower is home to the world’s best quantitative trading teams – trading across any time horizon, any market, and any asset class.

Trexquant is a leading quantitative finance firm specializing in the development of multi-asset portfolios through advanced machine learning methods. The firm continuously enhances its investment and research platform, utilizing a vast array of data variables to create complex trading models and strategies. These models generate trading signals aimed at outperforming market conditions globally.

Our C++ Software Engineers work side-by-side with world-class quantitative researchers and traders to design and engineer cutting-edge, high-performance systems that power our global trading strategies. From building ultra-low latency execution platforms to developing high-performance simulation frameworks and real-time scalable data pipelines, our engineers have a direct impact on every stage of the trading lifecycle. Our engineers push the limits of performance engineering, tackle complex technical challenges at scale, and thrive in a fast-paced, intellectually charged environment where innovation is not just encouraged—it’s expected!

You’re invited to explore more at trexquant.com!

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36 countries worldwideThe firm’s complementary core offerings—market making, client execution services, and trading venues—give Virtu a competitive advantage in developing and applying innovative tools that deliver efficiencies and performance across the organization.

WorldQuant develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a broad range of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies – the foundation of a balanced, global investment platform.Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people. For more information, visit www.worldquant.com or email wqtechrecruiting@worldquant.com to learn about our openings.

Scholarship Sponsor

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is a leading quantitative trading firm at the forefront of technical innovation in global financial markets. Every day, we bring together the world’s sharpest minds to collaboratively solve challenging problems and design technology that will drive the future of trading. Leveraging one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development, we trade across multiple asset classes and time horizons on more than 200 markets worldwide. We are a leading voice for fair and transparent markets everywhere and dedicated to creating a better trading landscape for all. For more information, visit www.hudsonrivertrading.com.

Video Sponsors

Ansatz Capital is a small, selective trading team based out of New York City. We believe that a rigorous research process combined with empowering the strongest technical minds is the key to problem solving the global markets. If you’d like more information about our vision, please find our contact information at ansatz.capital.

Hudson River Trading is the CppCon 2026 Video Channel Sponsor

JetBrains is the CppCon 2025 Video Channel Sponsor

Write the code that trades the world.
At Jump Trading, we build the systems that power global markets. These systems depend on speed, scale, and precision. Our engineers write high-performance C++ that runs in production across hundreds of exchanges and billions of messages a day.We design and optimize systems from the ground up: simulation frameworks, custom hardware, research infrastructure, and trading platforms. The engineers who thrive here are total systems thinkers. They want to understand how everything connects and how to make it better.If that sounds like your kind of problem set, check out jumptrading.com/careers.

We’re Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) — a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all asset classes across the world. United by a passion for data, research, technology, and trading, we aim to deliver exceptional returns for our investors. With 12 offices in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific, we’re truly global. At QRT, C++ sits at the core of our high-performance systems. Our alpha is recognised across the industry for blending advanced algorithms with very low latency. We’re continuously exploring the latest standards and language features to squeeze out every nanosecond and stay ahead. We’re hiring skilled C++ developers to help us push the boundaries of performance, evolve our trading infrastructure, and implement algorithms with maximum efficiency.

think-cell has established its product as the world’s leading software for creating data-driven business presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. Since our founding in 2002, we have helped more than 1.3 million users at over 35,000 companies build their presentations faster and more efficiently. Our mission is to streamline every aspect of presentation creation, providing the tools users need to quickly and accurately create any slide, from agendas and process flows to complex data-driven charts.

Key elements of ensuring productivity are our intuitive user interface, our unique layout algorithm, and our software’s seamless integration with Microsoft Office. We work on challenging visualization problems, we reverse-engineer Microsoft’s code, and we reinvent how slides are created. As think-cell is the only German company funding the C++ ISO committee delegation, the components we invent here have a good chance of being incorporated into the standard. Learn more about how we use C++ in our talks and publications.

Community Sponsors

Berlin C++ User Group

The C++ Conference