Philip Howson

Founder at Algoviral ( YC S21 )

AlgoViral· Summer 2021 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @howsonph

2025Chief Technology Officer· Algo Viral

In tech · since 2001

Company

Algo Viral

Role

Chief Technology Officer

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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AlgoViral

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Summer 2021

Experience

Career

Algo Viral
Chief Technology Officer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Iona Mind
Chief Technology Officer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019 – 2025
2019
Y Combinator
S21 Batch · 2021
2021
Techstars
Mentor · London, United Kingdom · 2017 – 2020
2017
Home
Retired · London, United Kingdom · 2016 – 2019
2016
XTX Markets
Partner · London, United Kingdom · 2015 – 2016
2015
GSA Capital
HFFX Desk · 2009 – 2015
2009
Barclays Capital
Algorithmic Trading Developer · 2008 – 2009
2008
UBS
Analyst, Quantitative Trading Strategies · 2007 – 2008
2007
UBS
Developer Equity algorithmic trading team · 2006 – 2007
2006
Morgan Stanley
Assocaite · 2004 – 2006
2004
MIK UK Ltd
Developer · 2002 – 2003
2002
Royal Bank Of Scotland Financial Markets
Intern · 2002
2002
Surrey Satellite Technology
Developer · 2001
2001

Bio

Previously Philip was a founding partner and head of trading technology at XTX Markets which is now one of the world's largest automated (algorithmic) trading firms. Philip retired from XTX Markets in April 2016. Before XTX, Philip worked at GSA Capital (which XTX span out from), Barclays Capital, UBS and Morgan Stanley predominantly on automated trading.