We're traders.We built this for traders.
Velotrade started with a simple question: what would a crypto prop firm look like if it were built by people who actually traded for a living?
Our story
Company information
Velotrade Re Limited operates the crypto funded trading platform. Incorporated in Hong Kong (November 2025).
Velotrade Management Limited continues our legacy fintech business (est. 2016).
Learn more →2016: Where it all started
Velotrade began in 2016 in Hong Kong as a fintech trade finance platform, helping businesses access working capital through invoice financing. Over the years, we built a reputation for speed, transparency, and reliability, paying out over $2.5 billion to clients worldwide. That business continues to operate today under Velotrade Management Limited.
2025: A new opportunity
A conversation introduced us to something we hadn't seen before: crypto funded trading challenges. We knew prop trading. We'd spent our careers on institutional desks at banks like JP Morgan, Dresdner Kleinwort, and Bank of America. But this model, evaluation phases and funded accounts, was new to us.
What we found
A lot of crypto prop firms don't put traders first. The priority is to collect challenge fees and make it hard to get paid. Hidden rules. Moving goalposts. Slow payouts. We saw firms built to profit from failure, not success.
And many of them are run by people with little experience in trading, in running a company, or in financial services at all. That shows. It shows in the rules, in the structure, in how they treat their traders.
Our vision
To become one of the most trusted crypto prop firms in the world, where disciplined traders get a fair shot, clear rules, and fast payouts.
That's why we started Velotrade
We thought: there's an opportunity here. Not just to build another business, but to build something the industry actually needs. A firm run by traders, for traders. One where the rules are clear, payouts are fast, and success is shared, not engineered away.
We've been in the financial sector for all of our careers. Our original Velotrade paid out over $2.5 billion to clients worldwide. We know how to run a company. We know how to manage risk. And we know what it feels like to be on the other side of a trade.
This is the firm we would have wanted to trade with. Clear rules. No tricks. Fast payouts. Crypto-native from day one. If you're a disciplined trader looking for a fair shot, you're in the right place.
Our values
The principles we use to build a fair, trader-first firm.
Traders first
We started this firm because we understand what traders need. Your success is how we measure ours.
Clarity
Rules should be simple and upfront. No surprises, no fine print.
Discipline
Consistency beats luck. We reward traders who take risk management seriously.
Crypto native
Built for crypto from day one, not a forex firm with a crypto add-on.
Experience
Decades of real trading and business behind every decision.
Meet the founders
Built by traders with decades on institutional desks.
Gianluca Pizzituti
Chief Executive Officer
Gianluca's fascination with trading started in secondary school, when his accounting teacher introduced him to the markets. It was the early days of online trading, the market was wild. You could almost see retail traders being crushed by institutional flows in all-liquidity names. That experience taught him something early: managing emotions is far more important than technical skill. How many so-called gurus appear skilled on paper, yet never show you a live trading session?
He began his career on the derivatives trading desk at Dresdner Kleinwort in London, before founding and running a proprietary HFT firm trading FX and equity indices out of Singapore. In 2016, he founded Velotrade in Hong Kong and scaled it to over $2.5 billion in disbursements worldwide.
When not busy at work, you'll find him enjoying time in nature, travelling, or contemplating the philosophies of Buddhist living.
Vittorio De Angelis
Executive Chairman
Vittorio has spent over 30 years in capital markets and risk management. He traded equity derivatives at JP Morgan and Dresdner Kleinwort in London, rising to Co-Head of Equity Derivatives at Bank of America. He later served as Head of Brokerage at a global broker in Hong Kong.
His philosophy is simple: what makes or breaks a trader is not a single bad trade, but a series of small bad trades that become habit. Discipline is the number one quality shared among consistently profitable traders. Luck has short legs.
As co-founder and operational lead of the original Velotrade platform, he brings institutional-grade risk discipline to everything the firm does.
Outside of work, Vittorio is an avid sailor and keen runner, and a family man with five boys.
Ready to trade with us?
We built Velotrade for traders like you. Clear rules. Fast payouts. No nonsense.