BlockTower is an institutional investment firm, applying professional trading, venture investing, credit underwriting, and portfolio management to digital and traditional assets. We partner with the companies and projects building this paradigm-shifting technology, as investors and as users, from early stage to and through the liquid market journey. And we use and build blockchain infrastructure to create the future of financial services, including securitizing traditional assets on-chain, and working with real-world credit originators to provide capital and support as they move along their growth path. 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.