21e6 Capital is a Swiss investment advisor, connecting professional investors with tailor-made crypto investment products. We enable a well managed digital asset exposure for family offices and institutional investors. Our expertise in crypto-asset management stems from a team combining decades of experience in traditional financial services with native and in-depth knowledge in digital assets. Our risk management solution, provided by OpenMetrics Solutions, is also trusted by the largest Swiss pension funds.
The 21e6 Capital team builds upon strong academic roots with a track record of leading crypto asset and decentralized finance (DeFi) publications and research, ensuring state-of-the-art crypto investment solutions for professional investors, family offices and asset managers.
Years of experience and empirical research bolster our proposal that investors desire a single access point to the highly fragmented but alpha-rich crypto fund ecosystem, compliant with the highest regulatory standards. At 21e6 Capital AG, we believe that digital assets are a new, established asset class. With this conviction, our team has analyzed over 1,000 crypto hedge funds across the world and condensed them into a selection that can yield crypto-exposure with minimized downside risk.
Such a portfolio could offer the following characteristics in a single, uncomplicated investment for the professional investor:
Diversification: Exploiting the low correlation between digital and traditional assets to improve risk-adjusted returns.
Strategic Allocation: Accessing multiple strategies such as quantitative, market-neutral, long-only and long-short.
Access: Investing in the best crypto fund managers globally, even as a new investor.
Tactical Allocation: State-of-the-art risk management to minimize drawdowns common in the crypto-sphere.
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Decades of practical experience in financial services and portfolio management combined with in-depth industry knowledge in crypto-assets.
Our team has a profound academic and scientific background, from institutions like Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, ETH Zurich, University of Mannheim, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, and University of St. Gallen. The processes and tools we use to evaluate investment opportunities have been developed by distinguished blockchain experts. This background will grant us recurring access to the newest scientific insights and achievements that will help us maintain a competitive advantage. Besides, our team has vast practical experience in asset and risk management and is therefore the cornerstone of a huge network of potential investors, advisers, supporters, and investment targets.
Philipp is the founder and Head of the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center. Philipp has been ranked 27th in the 2021 ranking of Germany’s most influential economists by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Alexander is an early-stage investor in Decentralized Finance and Co-Founder at DeepTech Ventures. He studied Banking and Finance at the University of St.Gallen (HSG).
Felix Fernandez holds a diploma in Electronics & Information Technology from the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt with a specialization in software simulation environments. He has more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and different management roles within Deutsche Börse Group/Eurex. After an engagement with the ETH Econophysics Group and the Rmetrics association, Felix assumed in November 2016 the role of CEO of OpenMetrics Solutions and is responsible for developing the business and implementing a product framework, which creates sustainable value for our clients.
Prior to 21e6, Maximilian was engaged as Executive Director of the International Token Standardization Association, where he focused on intense research and classification of crypto assets according to the International Token Classification Framework. He was heavily involved in the creation of the world’s biggest token database for classification data on tokens. During his time with the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center, Maximilian taught executive classes on blockchain and has amassed significant DeFi knowledge. Maximilian graduated from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and wrote his Thesis on the „Use Cases of a Token Database“ under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner.
Jan Spörer is an expert on financial and portfolio analysis and works on backtesting and quantitative securities’ trading systems. He has studied Business Administration at WHU and Data Science at Frankfurt School. He also works as a software developer and data scientist at Commerzbank and is writing his Ph.D. dissertation in the field of Computer Science, Data Science, Explainable AI and Blockchain at the University of St. Gallen (HSG).
Victor von Wachter writes his PhD dissertation on crypto assets at the University of Copenhagen. He is also an expert on Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and benefits from his strong background in computer science from the Technical University Munich. He worked as a technical product consultant and blockchain engineer at the Swiss exchange Smart Valor. Victor previously launched a DeFi fund to prove the ease of investment in DeFi instruments.
Tobias Setz holds a master degree in Computational Science and Engineering (with a major specialization in theoretical physics and a minor specialization in financial engineering) and a doctoral degree in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He wrote his thesis at the Institute for Theoretical Physics within the Econophysics Group. He is (co)author of several articles and books and maintainer of the Rmetrics software libraries since 2011. Since November 2016 Tobias is as CTO the main architect of the OpenMetrics Solutions technology framework and engaged in implementing state-of-the-art solutions for our clients.
Suresh has rich experience in leading multicultural, multilingual, distributed teams in transformational projects. His approximately twenty years of professional experience including the last decade at Deutsche Börse Group spans diverse sectors such as finance, IT, telecommunications, and manufacturing.
Suresh’s outstanding academic credentials include an Executive MBA with distinction from London Business School, MSc in Quantitative Finance from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, MSc in Communications Engineering from Technical University Munich, and Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from College of Engineering, Pune, India.
Philipp founded the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center. Since 2017, he has been a member of the FinTech Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany. Philipp’s expertise includes blockchain technology in general, crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, the digital programmable Euro, tokenization of assets and rights, and digital identity.
As a Co-Founder at DeepTech Ventures, Alexander engages with various Web 3.0 technology companies from proof-of-concept to proof-of-market stage. Alexander is also CEO & Co-Founder at FiveT Fintech, a company that supports exceptional entrepreneurs redesigning financial services through digitization and the use of cutting-edge technologies.
21e6 Capital AG
Bahnhofstrasse 13-15
CH-8808 Pfäffikon,
Switzerland
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