Pico
Pico provides trading infrastructure, global connectivity, market data, low-latency software, and packet-level analytics to exchanges, market makers, banks, brokers, and quantitative trading firms.
Website or institutional source
- Low-latency trading infrastructure provider
- Low-Latency & Trading Infrastructure Providers
- Tier I
Overview
Pico provides trading infrastructure, global connectivity, market data, low-latency software, and packet-level analytics to exchanges, market makers, banks, brokers, and quantitative trading firms. Its platform combines a global network and co-location footprint with technologies developed through Corvil and Redline Trading Solutions.
Pico supports normalized market data and order execution across hundreds of venues, managed infrastructure in major financial data centers, and nanosecond-resolution analysis of trading and network behavior. This combination helps clients operate performance-sensitive systems and diagnose latency, rejects, data loss, and other execution problems. Within The Economy Wiki, the institution is connected to the Low-Latency & Trading Infrastructure Providers category.
Firm facts
| Institution | Pico |
| Type | Low-latency trading infrastructure provider |
| Headquarters | New York, United States |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Primary ranking focus | Low-Latency & Trading Infrastructure Providers |
| Highest 2026 tier | Tier I |
Activities and investment capabilities
Pico is active in high-performance connectivity, market data, co-location and execution systems. Its category-specific capabilities are summarized below.
Core capability
high-performance connectivity, market data, co-location and execution systems
Institutional relevance
Capabilities are assessed for professional investors, investment organizations, counterparties or hedge-fund operating teams.
Risk and execution
The profile considers research quality, implementation, governance, resilience and category-specific operating requirements.
Strategy and market coverage
Strategy and workflow coverage
high-performance connectivity, market data, co-location and execution systems
Institutional context
Coverage reflects the institution’s role in hedge-fund investment, data, trading, financing, risk or operational workflows.
Market position
Pico fits Tier I because it integrates several of the category’s most important layers within a capital-markets-specific platform. Its combination of connectivity, managed infrastructure, low-latency software, data, and observability distinguishes it from providers concentrated in only one component.
Pico is assessed within the Low-Latency & Trading Infrastructure Providers framework. For wider market context, see Private Equity Technology Due Diligence in the AI Era.
Competitive context
Pico is recognized Tier I in Top 30 Low-Latency & Trading Infrastructure Providers 2026. The rankings compare institutions by category relevance, investment or operating capability, research depth, risk and execution quality, institutional credibility and current activity. Comparable links support navigation and do not imply identical mandates, products or counterparties.
Leadership and governance
Leadership, investment-committee composition, product ownership and operating resources may change over time. Current information should be confirmed through the institution’s website or public institutional source.
| Leadership area | Current source |
|---|---|
| Leadership and governance | Current institutional information |
Corporate and public information
This profile refers to Pico as the public-facing institution or platform. Individual funds, advisers, broker-dealers, banks, administrators, data businesses and regulated affiliates may use separate legal names across jurisdictions.
Corporate and disclosure information
| Organization | Pico |
| Headquarters | New York, United States |
| Public source | www.pico.net |
| Profile basis | Public institutional information and Capital Ranking editorial research |
Ranking recognition
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