I work in quant trading - I can guarantee you at least 4/7 of the firms on that list are well-known, well-respected, and would count as "big funds". Can't comment on the actual pods that apparently went bust though, but generally you should expect the average pod at these places to be at least reasonably good considering the sink-or-swim environment they are perpetually in.

Those are Billion dollar funds, those are large fish:)

Troluce and Axebrook had more than $1.5B pulled from them by Millennium.

Walleye is a $17B AUM fund.

> there are like a zillion of these pod shops and tiny firms. doesn't mean much. wake me up when a big fund fails

I get that not everyone knows the industry but consider this your wakeup call:)