Michael Bigger, Founder and Managing Member
is an investor and trader with a physics background who has been funding companies with massive visions for more than twenty years. He started his career as a meteorologist using complex differential mathematics to forecast synoptic and mesoscale atmospheric elements for the Canadian government.
In 1992, Michael joined Citibank as head trader of U.S. single-stock derivatives, where he managed a $5 billion portfolio of equity derivatives. In 1998, he brought his expertise to D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. to trade the U.S. equity derivatives portfolio.
In 2000, he started the listed equity options business by establishing KBC Financial Products as one of the three initial market-makers of the International Securities Exchange. He built that business into the primary market-maker for listed equity options on over 120 companies, with fifteen traders executing thousands of trades per day.
As a private investor in start-up companies, Michael was among a group of investors who sold Innovative Fibers to Alcatel for $175 million in July 2000. In December 2001, Michael left KBC to start his own fund Bigger Capital.
At Bigger Capital Michael steers the ship.
Michael graduated with a BS in Physics from the University of Quebec in Montréal in 1986 and an MBA from York University in Toronto in 1991.
Mathias Bigger, Associate | Life Sciences & Biotechnology
is a scientist turned investor. He began his research career in 2016 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory under Dr. David Tuveson, researching and culturing 3D patient derived tumor organoids.
In 2021, he joined the Ellison Medical Institute of Los Angeles. He won 3rd place at the undergraduate poster caucus of the AACR Annual Meeting 2023 for his poster titled “Rapid Batch Processing of FLIM Images for Dynamic Metabolic Readout of Drug Response in Colorectal Cancer Organoids.” He co-authored the Nature article titled “Merging metabolic modeling and imaging for screening therapeutic targets in colorectal cancer.” His contributions reflect a rare ability to bridge computational approaches with experimental biology. Mathias brings that same analytical discipline and translational mindset to investing in emerging biotech companies.
Mathias has quickly taken on a central role applying his engineering skills to our investment decisions and developing technology, trading algorithms and logical systems.
Mathias graduated with a BS in chemical engineering with a biology focus from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 2023.
Aris David, Tech Lead | Software Engineering
is a polyglot engineer with over 15 years of experience working in both finance and engineering. He has built and delivered software solutions across trading, data infrastructure, and automation, supporting high-performance environments within the financial sector.
Before joining Bigger Capital, Aris worked as a software engineering consultant for several investment banks including RBS, Investec and BNP Paribas, where he implemented and enhanced systems across credit and equity trading.
Aris designs and constructs our computational systems.
Aris graduated with a BEng in Electronic Engineering from Queen Mary, University of London in 2007.
Patricia Winter, Associate | Finance & Structured Products
is a financial professional who started her career in risk arbitrage at County NatWest identifying pricing inefficiencies arising from significant corporate events. In 1993, she joined the tax arbitrage group at UBS focusing on understanding and navigating tax laws and devising tax efficient strategies for corporate clients. With Merrill Lynch M&A in London Patricia built in-depth financial models, researching industry trends and valuing acquisition targets.
In 1997 she joined the Emerging Markets Structured Derivatives team at Citibank in New York where she worked with corporate clients to access US financial markets with innovative products. In 1999 she was honored with the GRB Global Customer Solutions Award for her instrumental role closing a $500 million structured financing.
After a short break to raise her young family, Patricia took over the function of CFO at Janam Technologies, where she helped grow the upstart company, mostly organically, to increase revenues ten-fold and prepare the company for sale.
Patricia leverages her operational skills and financial knowledge to optimize our back end workflows and handle complex special situations.
Patricia received a BS in finance from New York University in 1993 and an MBA from Columbia University in 1997.