Crest was founded by Willy Woo and CMCC Global in 2022.
CREST IS A SEARCH COMPANY. We are index quantitative managers operating in digital assets.
CREST IS A DATA COMPANY. We collate performance data from hundreds of managers. We process this data to see the eco-system as a whole. We ingest real-time on-chain data to understand market structure and risk.
CREST IS A RISK MITIGATION COMPANY. We do institutional grade operational due diligence, we live monitor eco-system risks through on-chain data systems. When we see risk our analysts notify our managers within 30 minutes.
CREST IS A PRODUCT COMPANY. We use our data to create investment products, maximising returns while minimising risk.
SyzCrest Uncorrelated
An institutional grade fund targeting 25% IRR over a full market cycle with very low risk of drawdown. SyzCrest is co-managed by the Crest team and Syz Banking Group, a Swiss Private Bank with 30 years of experience diligencing TradFi hedge funds.
Crest Yield SPC
Crest delivers a high yield on USD. Crest Yield SPC is only open to partners and friends of CMCC, this fund was conceived to manage the CMCC Global cash treasury.
Syz Banking Group
An institutional grade fund targeting 25% IRR over a full market cycle with low risk of drawdown. SyzCrest is co-managed by the Crest team and Syz Banking Group, a Swiss Private Bank with 30 years of experience diligencing TradFi hedge funds
CMCC Global
CMCC Global is Asia's first venture capital firm focused solely on digital assets.
Willy Woo
Co-founder, Managing Partner
Founder of The Bitcoin Forecast, the industry's most subscribed paid market intelligence newsletter. Widely considered the pioneering leader of on-chain analysis. Willy was an early investor in Bitcoin in 2013 and Ethereum since at the 2014 ICO. He has been named one of the most infuential people in crypto and a top 5 crypto analyst by CoinDesk. 1.1 million crypto investors follow his voice on X / Twitter.
Martin Baumann
Co-founder, Managing Partner
Co-founder of CMCC Global. Previously, CFO at Nova Founders Capital, a global fintech investment firm and M&A banker in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Served on multiple boards of leading Fintech companies such as Hyphen Group, Coru Mexico and others. Business Administration and Finance masters diploma from Technical University Berlin.
Charlie Morris
Co-founder, Managing Partner
Co-founder of CMCC Global. Previously CIO at a blockchain VC firm as well as Management Consultant in London. Sortware englneer in Hong Kong, expert Blockchain Adviser for Chinese investment company, CLSA. Ethereum ICO investor in 2014. PPE degree from Oxford University.
Martin Froehler
Technical Advisor
Mathematician, veteran quant, and former hedge fund manager. Martin made his mark as senior quant and managing director of IdeaLab Research, the research arm of Superfund which managed USD4b in quantitative strategies. Later founding Morpher and Quantiacs. Through the course of his career Martin has trained over 1000 quants in the craft of building systematic trading models.
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