BlockTower is an institutional investment firm focused on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, applying the skills of professional trading, investing, risk and portfolio management to this digital asset class. We take advantage of the full crypto opportunity set with a suite of investment strategies and a structure designed to capture returns across market regimes. Our strategies reflect how we want to invest ourselves: • BlockTower Flagship: Active trading directional exposure focused on liquid crypto assets via a multi-strategy approach analyzing both top-down market regimes and bottom-up asset selection. • BlockTower Market Neutral: Non-directional alpha, implementing strategies designed to deliver consistent and persistent returns with low drawdowns across all market environments. • BlockTower Credit: Investing in real-world credit assets; structured lending solutions for fintech originators and non-bank lenders pursuing superior risk-adjusted returns by leveraging blockchain technology. • BlockTower VC: Next-generation venture investing, applying the skills of both crypto-native and traditional VC to the growing web3 space; partnering with teams at the earliest stages as both investors and as users leveraging the BlockTower platform. We partner with the companies and projects building this paradigm-shifting technology, as investors and as users, from the earliest stages to and through the liquid market journey. The firm was founded in 2017 by Goldman Sachs executive and engineer, Matthew Goetz, and University of Chicago Endowment portfolio and risk manager and Susquehanna International Group trader, Ari Paul.