NovaSparks

NovaSparks builds ultra-low-latency FPGA market data solutions for banks, trading firms, and electronic markets. Its NovaTick ticker plant, delivered as a hardware appliance or PCIe card, normalizes and distributes real-time feeds across global equities, options (OPRA), and other asset classes with deterministic nanosecond latency. Integration is via a proprietary ultra-low-latency C++ Software API and the NovaSparks Wire Format (NSWF), a normalized message protocol whose full specification is provided to banks and trading firms under NDA rather than published publicly. NovaSparks is now part of Exegy. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Partech.

NovaSparks is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Infrastructure Saas, Financial-Services, Market Data, and FPGA.

NovaSparks’ developer surface includes documentation and 3 more developer resources.

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1.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
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CompanyInfrastructure SaasFinancial-ServicesMarket DataFPGALow LatencyTradingHardware

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 1.2/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 1.5 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Securities & Market Data regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Novasparks Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: novasparks
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/novasparks.png
name: NovaSparks
description: NovaSparks builds ultra-low-latency FPGA market data solutions for banks, trading firms, and electronic markets.
  Its NovaTick ticker plant, delivered as a hardware appliance or PCIe card, normalizes and distributes real-time feeds across
  global equities, options (OPRA), and other asset classes with deterministic nanosecond latency. Integration is via a proprietary
  ultra-low-latency C++ Software API and the NovaSparks Wire Format (NSWF), a normalized message protocol whose full specification
  is provided to banks and trading firms under NDA rather than published publicly. NovaSparks is now part of Exegy. Surfaced
  as a portfolio company of Partech.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/novasparks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- partech
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Infrastructure Saas
- Financial-Services
- Market Data
- FPGA
- Low Latency
- Trading
- Hardware
tags_raw:
- Company
- Infrastructure Saas
- Financial Services
- Market Data
- FPGA
- Low Latency
- Trading
- Hardware
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://novasparks.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://novasparks.com/api_or_wireformat/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://novasparks.com/privacy-cookie-policy/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/novasparks-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
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