About Us

Built by traders. For traders.

Meridian Funded was founded in 2024 in Dubai by a team of institutional traders and engineers. Our mission: rebuild the prop firm experience around transparency, speed and respect for our community.

Our story

Meridian Funded was born out of a frustration familiar to thousands of proprietary traders: opaque rules, sluggish payouts, moving goalposts. The first prop firms opened an extraordinary opportunity for skilled traders without large capital. Over time, too many of them started optimising against their own traders rather than alongside them.

We launched in Dubai in 2024 with a simple thesis: a prop firm should treat consistent traders like partners. Transparent rules, a flat drawdown model, no consistency rule, payouts in 72 hours, and a scaling plan that actually scales. We built the platform and the risk engine in-house, with a small, focused team.

Today Meridian Funded serves over 8,200 funded traders across 87 countries, with more than $12.4M paid out in performance rewards. We remain fully self-funded, with no outside capital forcing us to compromise on our community.

Our values

Transparency first

Every rule, every fee, every exception is public. No fine print, no hidden clauses designed to catch traders.

Speed as a feature

72-hour payouts, instant dashboard, 24/7 support. Your time is the most expensive asset you trade.

Long-term alignment

Our Scaling Plan and 90% split are engineered so your success compounds with ours.

Trader respect

No gotcha rules. No "consistency" policing. Your strategy is yours. We stay out of your way.

Leadership

The team

Adrien Valentin

Adrien Valentin

Co-Founder & CEO

Former FX desk at a Tier-1 London bank. 11 years trading FX and rates. Built Meridian to flip the prop firm model on its head.

Sara Haddad

Sara Haddad

Co-Founder & COO

Ex-operations lead at a Dubai-based brokerage. Obsessed with payout speed and operational excellence.

Dmitri Orlov

Dmitri Orlov

CTO & Head of Risk

Former quant engineer at a systematic hedge fund. Designed the risk engine and the Meridian Web Terminal from scratch.

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