PhDs in statistics, applied math and physics. They model microstructure, calibrate slippage curves, design A/B routing experiments and decide which venues earn flow this week.
- Microstructure
- TCA modelling
- Hawkes processes
- Reinforcement learning
Origin
We started Drovix because integrating with most brokers feels like 2012.
Our founding team spent a decade inside trading venues and high-frequency firms. We saw, again and again, that the gap between an institutional client and a clean fill was not the market — it was the counterparty's software. Black-box white-label platforms. Routing logic no one could explain. TCA delivered as a PDF, monthly, three weeks late.
Drovix was founded to do the opposite. We write the matching code. We profile the router. We deploy ONNX models for fair-mid estimation into the same process that emits the quote. We instrument every microsecond and we hand the data back to clients in a form their best-execution committee can audit.
We are an execution counterparty, not a platform reseller. The difference shows up in the fills.
What we build
The stack, in our own words.
Not vendor brochures — the actual components that run in production.
C++ pricing engine
Lock-free order book per LP, deterministic aggregation, sub-microsecond top-of-book selection. Compiled with profile-guided optimisation, deployed to bare-metal hosts.
Aeron transport
Open-source UDP messaging from Real Logic, used by the world's most demanding trading systems. Our internal bus runs on Aeron — predictable, lossless, observable.
ONNX models in the hot path
Quantised neural nets for fair-mid estimation and flow-toxicity scoring, exported to ONNX and served via ONNX Runtime in-process — predictions in tens of microseconds, not milliseconds.
Microsecond TCA
Every quote, route decision and fill is timestamped at the kernel level and reconciled into a post-trade store. Best-execution evidence is queryable, not anecdotal.
FIX 4.4 / REST / WS
Standards-based connectivity into your EMS / OMS. No proprietary client, no lock-in. Conformance, UAT and certification managed by a dedicated onboarding engineer.
Pre-trade risk gateway
Notional, gross, position and self-trade limits enforced before the order ever sees the LP. Kill-switch is a documented, drilled, version-controlled procedure.
The people
Quants. Engineers. Market-structure operators.
We don’t list names on a website. We describe the work.
Former HFT and exchange engineers. They write lock-free C++, tune the kernel, pin cores, and care deeply about the difference between 38μs and 31μs end-to-end.
- Modern C++
- Aeron
- Solarflare / Onload
- Linux tuning
They train, quantise and ship ONNX models for fair-price estimation and toxicity detection. The model runs inside the matching path, not in a notebook.
- PyTorch → ONNX
- INT8 quant
- Triton / CUDA
- Feature stores
Ex-prime brokerage and ex-venue staff. They negotiate LP terms, draft execution policy, run kill-switch drills and answer best-execution questions in plain English.
- Best execution
- FSC Mauritius
- FIX 4.4
- Kill-switch governance
Principles
How we make decisions.
The non-negotiables. They shape what we ship and what we refuse to ship.
Measure first, opine second.
Every execution claim we make is reducible to a number — slippage in basis points, fill latency in microseconds, top-of-book improvement vs. composite. If we cannot show it on a report, we do not say it on the website.
Own the stack, top to bottom.
The aggregator, the smart order router, the risk gateway and the post-trade store are written by our team in C++ and Rust. There is no third-party black box between you and the venue.
Institutional only. Period.
Drovix onboards regulated brokers, funds, prop firms and asset managers. No retail accounts, no internalisation against client flow, no B-book conflict.
Version-control everything, including risk.
Risk limits, routing logic and venue weights live in git. Every change has an author, a reviewer and a rollback plan. Operations is a software discipline, not a desk decision.
Milestones
Where we are.
- 2024
Founded.
A group of former venue and HFT engineers incorporated Drovix (MU) Ltd to build the institutional execution layer they always wanted to integrate with — one that ships fixes weekly instead of yearly.
- 2024
FSC Mauritius licence (FSD GB21026813).
Authorised under the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius as a Full-Service Dealer (excluding underwriting). Market-making is operated as an overlay within the FSD, not as a separate licence.
- 2025
Production execution stack live.
Proprietary C++ aggregator, Aeron-based internal bus, ONNX inference in the hot path, post-trade TCA store. Co-located deployments in Equinix LD4, NY4 and TY3 underway.
- Today
Onboarding institutional counterparties.
Funds, prop firms, regulated brokers and asset managers. UK onboarding remains paused pending FCA authorisation. Sanctioned jurisdictions are not eligible.
Corporate & regulatory
Drovix (MU) Ltd
Drovix (MU) Ltd is incorporated in the Republic of Mauritius and authorised by the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius (FSC) as a Full-Service Dealer excluding underwriting, licence FSD GB21026813. Market-making activity is operated as an overlay within the FSD licence.
UK authorisation by the Financial Conduct Authority is pending. Until granted, Drovix does not onboard clients in the United Kingdom and does not solicit UK retail activity. Sanctioned jurisdictions are not eligible.
Drovix is an institutional execution counterparty and does not accept retail accounts.
Registered details
- Legal name
- Drovix (MU) Ltd
- Jurisdiction
- Republic of Mauritius
- Regulator
- Financial Services Commission of Mauritius
- Licence
- FSD GB21026813 (excl. underwriting)
- Activity
- Institutional dealing & aggregated liquidity
- Eligible clients
- Regulated brokers, funds, prop firms, asset managers
Want to test the fills?
Onboarding starts with a structured KYB review and a brief technical conversation with an engineer — not a sales pitch.
Risk notice. Engaging in leveraged products such as Forex and CFDs involves a high level of risk. The Drovix offering is directed at Eligible Counterparties and Professional Clients and is not intended for retail clients. Leverage can amplify both profits and losses; a counterparty may lose more than its initial margin. Ensure that the firm understands how these products work and can bear the risk of capital loss.