Arcesium published an article by Matthew Katz on internal hackathons and culture, running them inside normal working hours with managers signing off in advance

Arcesium is a global financial technology company delivering front-to-back technology solutions for some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, asset managers, private markets, and sell side firms. Expertly designed to achieve a synchronized golden source of data throughout a client’s ecosystem, Arcesium’s cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex workflows and help clients achieve scale. Today, Arcesium services over $6.4T in gross AUM and over $1.2T in sell-side capital balances and has modelled over 170+ million investments to date. Arcesium was built from a platform developed and tested by investment and technology development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, and launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing. J.P. Morgan, another large client, later made a strategic investment in the company, helping Arcesium further its mission: to power the entire investment lifecycle. Arcesium currently has a staff of over 2,400 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.