QuantumLight, a quantitative venture capital firm founded by Nik Storonsky, announced the final closing of its inaugural $250 million fund. And at the same time, the firm is publicly launching its second operating playbook Hiring Top Talent designed to help founders systematically scale world-class teams.
The $250 million Fund I, which closed at hard cap, is backed by a global group of notable LPs, including billionaire tech founders and prominent institutions. Since its launch in 2023, QuantumLight has backed exceptional founders across AI, Web3, Fintech, SaaS, and Healthtech.
Launched by Nik Storonsky, the entrepreneur behind $45 billion fintech giant Revolut, QuantumLight aims to bring scientific precision to venture capital. The firm’s approach is grounded in systematic investing, and its proprietary AI model, Aleph, was purpose-built to identify outlier growth-stage companies.
QuantumLight’s second public playbook, Hiring Top Talent, co-authored with Nik Storonsky, follows the success of the previously released manual Driving High Performance. The firm is unveiling the structured recruitment approach behind Revolut’s hiring engine, which helped the company scale to 10,000+ employees in ten years.
This approach centers on identifying problem-solvers and assessing them through a highly structured and repeatable process that ensures consistency and reduces bias.
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“Our ambition is to build the world’s best systematic venture capital and growth equity firm – and support the new generation of founders by sharing some of the operating principles that we developed at Revolut.”
Nik Storonsky, Founder of QuantumLight and CEO & Founder of Revolut
“QuantumLight’s frameworks around hiring helped us bring structure and consistency to how we evaluate candidates. Leveraging the talent framework and interview playbooks gave us a clear starting point and helped us accelerate our hiring efforts. It’s been valuable to learn from the systems that helped scale Revolut into a global company.”
Mark Lee, Founder & CEO of MarqVision, a QuantumLight portfolio company
“Our goal is to make the invisible operating systems behind iconic companies like Revolut visible and replicable. Founders shouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to building high-performing teams. By sharing these tools and frameworks, we’re helping scale-ups move faster from day one.”
Ilya Kondrashov, CEO of QuantumLight
