# Benjamin Smith

> Benjamin Smith is a Series A investor at Laurion Capital Management backing FinTech. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Laurion Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurion-capital-management)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-smith-aba283120/

Benjamin Smith is a Partner at Laurion Capital Management. He attended Harvard University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 1 | 100% |
| Cloud Computing | 1 | 100% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 100% |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 1 | 100% |
| Information Services | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MerQube | MerQube is a cloud native indexing platform designed for designing, calculating, and disseminating financial indices at scale. In the growing space of passive (index-linked) indexing, MerQube provides robust financial indices in the areas of equities, futures and options and ESG and has the expertise that spans market-capitalization weightedindices to risk-premia, volatility, thematics, and ESG. | $5M | Series A | Oct 06, 2021 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [JP Morgan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jp-morgan-chase) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Thirdstream Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thirdstream-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Laurion Capital Management

VC Fund · New York, United States

Laurion Capital Management is an investment firm that provides a multi-disciplinary approach to capital markets investing. To collect qualitative and quantitative perspectives and data points, the company's research and investing teams use a wide aperture. Laurion Capital Management pursues investment opportunities across a variety of assetclasses at the point where the qualitative and quantitative meet.

2 contacts available at Laurion Capital Management.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Benjamin Smith | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-smith-f1aa |
| Sheehan Maduraperuma | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sheehan-maduraperuma-1e86 |

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## FAQ

### What does Benjamin Smith invest in?

Benjamin Smith invests primarily in FinTech, Cloud Computing and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Benjamin Smith last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Benjamin Smith closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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