Arvind Ramanathan co-founded and scaled Vigilant Global, a proprietary trading firm, from his mother's apartment in Montreal into one of Canada's leading trading firms before its acquisition by DRW, and now applies his high-frequency trading background to move unusually quickly on early technical bets at BoxOne Ventures using a "be first to act" philosophy. He runs the Sun and Truth Foundation to support youth education and help people reconnect with nature, and has served for nearly 15 years on the board of Youth Fusion, focused on improving high school graduation rates, making him one of the relatively few venture investors who runs an active, values-driven foundation alongside investing. Arvind Ramanathan co-founded and scaled Vigilant Global, a proprietary trading firm, from his mother's apartment in Montreal into one of Canada's leading trading firms before its acquisition by DRW, and now applies his high-frequency trading background to move unusually quickly on early technical bets at BoxOne Ventures using a "be first to act" philosophy. He runs the Sun and Truth Foundation to support youth education and help people reconnect with nature, and has served for nearly 15 years on the board of Youth Fusion, focused on improving high school graduation rates, making him one of the relatively few venture investors who runs an active, values-driven foundation alongside investing.