Participated · Seed · Jul 2019

Digital Assets Data builds an institutional-grade platform that delivers customizable tools and data feeds for analyzing cryptoasset on-chain, market, reference, and customer data. The company launched its Digital Assets Data platform in March and positions the product to let clients build models, analytics, heuristics, and signals as code. Its customers include asset managers and other market participants such as crypto hedge funds, protocol teams, family offices, research firms, consulting firms, banks, and sovereigns. The platform emphasizes full-stack flexibility and high-quality, granular data ingestion to support quant and data-science workflows. Financially, the company has completed seed-stage fundraising and expanded its capital base through a recent equity extension, bringing total funding to date to $9.2 million. Digital Assets Data operates an institutional-grade crypto data platform that offers terabytes of clean on-chain, market, and reference data in a fully hosted cloud environment. The platform, launched in March, enables clients to build models, analytics, heuristics, or signals as code. Its target customers include crypto hedge funds, family offices, and asset management research firms. With new funding, the company plans to build out the platform, expand service offerings, and grow its team. CEO Mike Alfred said the investment and investor networks will be critical as the company expands its customer base and solidifies its enterprise position. The company was established in 2015. Digital Assets Data offers subscription services that bring data, information and transparency to cryptoassets, including currencies, platforms, applications, side chains, security tokens, and initial coin offerings. Its products target hedge funds and other institutional investors seeking structured cryptoasset data. The company was launched by Mike Alfred, Eddie Alfred, and Jason Yates; Mike Alfred is co-founder and former CEO of BrightScope. The round is believed to be $1.5M, and the proceeds will be used to scale the company's technology and programming operations. Leadership and investors say they intend to expand products and services to financial-services C-suites and establish a data platform that could become an industry standard and improve cryptoasset liquidity.