Financial infrastructure for the rest of the world.

Arivu Labs is a research + engineering lab.

Starting with Agara, prediction markets for emerging economies.

Raised ~$7.3M from BTV, Accel, and tier-1 angels.

What we're building

Prediction markets today are built for the US. The larger opportunity is global.

There is signal everywhere. In local politics, finance, crypto, weather, sports, and culture across emerging markets. But the people closest to those markets can't trade on what they know.

Agara changes that.

Local, contextual markets across emerging economies. AI-created. Transparently resolved.

Prediction markets are going mainstream. The infrastructure is ready. Stablecoins, on-chain rails, clearer regulation. Emerging markets are growing fastest. The rest of the world is the next frontier. We plan to be there first.

Team

A small, senior team.

Team background

Gojek, Swiggy, Flipkart, Amazon, Tower Research.

Next hire: you. →

Culture

Seven principles we hold ourselves to.

i.

Earn your seat. Every day.

We are a sports team, not a family.
ii.

Bring the juice.

Energy, optimism, hustle. No passengers.
iii.

AND not OR.

Reject the tyranny of the OR.
iv.

One is lazy.

Never bring one option. Bring alternatives. Show the trade-offs.
v.

Sweat the small stuff.

Sloppy edges mean sloppy thinking.
vi.

Stay on the bleeding edge.

Know your domain better than anyone.
vii.

Raise the effort ceiling.

The high bar for others is our floor.

Why join

We care about slope. A smart, hungry junior will outrun a coasting senior.

Top-of-band salary for India. Paid in dollars. No currency depreciation risk. Equity, so the company's upside is your upside.

~$7.3M from BTV, Accel, and tier-1 angels. That buys multiple years of runway. Head-down on product, not fundraising.

This is the seat you want. Pre-PMF. Hard problems. Trading systems, financial infrastructure, Web3. Few engineers ever get to build a trading system from scratch.

In return, we expect you to work the hardest you ever have.

How we hire

Two tech interviews. An assignment. A paid trial.

The best signal comes from working together. The interviews are conversations, not quizzes. What you've built. How you reason when you're wrong. The assignment is unpaid and bounded. A few hours, not a weekend. The paid trial is what it sounds like. You work with us, we pay you, both sides get real signal on fit.

Across all of it, we care about three things.