William Libby

CEO and Co-Founder

Upper90

Mr. Libby is CEO of Upper90 which is a hybrid fund that provides founder-friendly credit and equity to top disruptors in e-commerce, enterprise and fintech.  The fund is backed by over 300 business builders with $500M in AUM and over $1.5Bn in total originations since being started in 2018 by executives from Seamless-GrubHub and Goldman Sachs. We leverage new data sources to invest in startups with predictable revenue models like Thrasio, Clearbanc, Crusoe Energy, and Octane Lending, who secured their first credit facilities from Upper90.

Until April 2018, Mr. Libby served as Head of Quantitative Execution and Systematic Market Making Sales in the Americas for Goldman Sachs. Mr. Libby’s team was responsible for distributing products that allow clients to access the firm’s execution algorithms, alternative datasets and principal liquidity. He also worked closely with the strategic investment group which invested in CRUX, Kensho and Marquee internal platform.   Mr. Libby started his career at Goldman Sachs in 2003 as an analyst in the electronic trading division where he was responsible for developing the firm’s first alternative trading system called SIGMA-X and joined Barclays (then Lehman Brothers) in 2007 to lead Electronic Trading product development.   In 2011, Mr. Libby became head of strategy and product development in the Market Making Division at Knight Capital Group (KCG). While at KCG, Mr. Libby helped expand the principal trading strategies into options, futures, FX and European equities.

Mr. Libby received a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. Mr. Libby served as a fellow at the White House in the Clinton Administration and as an intern at Telebanc, one of the first online banks (eventually acquired by E-Trade).