User:Erwan huelgoat/ACTIV Financial

Founded in 2002 by a group of market data professionals from trading firms, ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc. is a financial data vendor focused on low latency technology and global distribution of market data. ACTIV supplies market-data content and technologies to different kinds of financial actors: market makers, hedge funds, brokers and trading systems. ACTIV is committed to Research and development in order to provide financial markets' actors with efficient and effective technologies to solve the needs of global and low latency market data distribution.

Products
ACTIV provides different types of market data services for electronic trading strategies: Furthermore, ACTIV offers content from various exchanges, enriching that content with corporate actions, fundamental data, news, and time series data, and operates with the status of Vendor of Record for equity, derivative, and commodity exchanges. Besides, ACTIV supplies algorithmic and electronic trading, global enterprise distribution, Direct market access and trading platform, tick capture engines and backtesting, and market making and auto-quoting solutions.
 * ActivFeed, which delivers low-latency feeds;
 * ActivMiddleware, a layered suite of software components and services for building large-scale real-time distributed systems;
 * ActivMessaging, a messaging substrate, which delivers arbitrarily large messages over shared memory;
 * ActivDatabase, a real-time database engine;
 * ActivWorkstation, a tick market data interface, which offers pre-opening market data, net-order imbalances, and full tick coverage data.
 * Additional services: technology management, content management, and support services.

Locations
ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

ACTIV has opened additional offices in New York City, NY; Wheaton, IL; Cambridge, UK; Singapore and Tokyo.

The company also has datacenters in Toronto, Hong Kong and Frankfurt.

Investment of Bessemer Venture Partners
At the end of 2009, ACTIV was already serving over 300 customers and managing more than 130 feed-handlers and nearly 20 data centers spread worldwide.

On January 20, 2010, ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc., announced that Bessemer Venture Partners has made a minority equity investment in the firm.

The investment aimed to help ACTIV drive new customer acquisition, power continued product innovation and meet the growing demand for low latency market data solutions.