Arsenii Nikolaiev

Arsenii Nikolaiev is a London-based operator and founder. He is the founder of Quanta World, an ed-tech/mathematics venture, and an early joiner at Mercor (an AI/software company) where he has progressed to Senior SPL. He read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and previously studied at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He won a silver medal for Ukraine at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2018 and co-founded a mathematics-outreach initiative. His only quantitative-finance role on record is a six-month Quantitative Researcher position at Symbolic Capital Partners, LLC (Apr-Sep 2022, remote), a crypto/MEV trading firm.

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• Employer classification: Symbolic Capital Partners (SCP), co-founded by Lev Livnev, is a crypto/MEV quantitative trading firm - Forbes describes it as an MEV trading operation and MIT Sloan research lists it among 'large, sophisticated trading firms' alongside Wintermute. A genuine quant trading firm, not merely a name containing 'quant'. A same-named SCP raised a MYSO Finance seed round (Sheridan, WY).Oct 2022
• Quant employment verification - CONFIRMED (historical, not current). LinkedIn lists 'Quantitative Researcher, Symbolic Capital Partners, LLC, Apr 2022 - Sep 2022, Remote'; not listed there as current.Apr 2022
• Founded Quanta World (quanta.world), an ed-tech/mathematics venture, in Sep 2024 and remains its founder; listed as a current role on his LinkedIn.Sep 2024
• His LinkedIn summary of the SCP role: 'Research to identify and analyze market opportunities, enhancing [strategies]' - a research role in a crypto trading firm, distinct from a student program.Apr 2022
• Silver medal at the 2018 International Mathematical Olympiad (rank 61, 89.9%, 29 points) representing Ukraine, per the official IMO results.Jul 2018
• Featured in The Guardian's maths puzzle column 'The brain from Ukraine' (Feb 2023) as puzzle author, described as a Cambridge mathematics undergraduate and former IMO silver medallist.Feb 6, 2023
• Read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge ('Cambridge (Trinity) '23'); previously studied at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.2023
• Co-founded a mathematics outreach initiative ('Kvanta') with his brother Andrii Nikolaiev (PhD CS, Mercor APEX + Cambridge NLIP).2023
• Early joiner at Mercor (AI/software, mercor.io, not a quant trading firm), progressing Consultant -> Strategic Projects Lead -> Senior SPL.
• Recipient of a Presidential scholarship from Ukraine's Ministry of Education (Jun 2018).Jun 2018
• Worked at Huawei as a Research Intern and as a Teaching Specialist at KAUST.
• Secondary education: Kyiv Natural-Scientific Lyceum No. 145; plus a listed High School Diploma from Moscow school number 1329.