At the same time, if this is a genuinely useful tool for its intended purpose, there are lots of exit strategy possibilities. It might be worth billions to a single hedge fund.
hackers at the billion $ HF's are the best in the world and there is no tech here that is really of any value to them. not to be too mean, but this is basically a nice webpage with a couple of scripts. If somebody would build a FIX engine and a broker with containers, that would be worth perhaps a billion in aggregate (NYSE:IBKR). But generally you start from scratch, for very good reasons.