Iron Key Capital

Crypto Asset investing is akin to liquid venture capital

Crypto asset investing requires the application of public market investment techniques plus access to and understanding of venture-stage tech investing. This dynamic landscape demands active portfolio management and flexible investment strategies. Consistent alpha generation from digital asset investing requires dynamic tools to execute specific processes inside a well-defined investment framework.

Our Investment Strategy

Iron Key Capital combines quantitative trading techniques to manage risk with a thesis-driven venture style research framework, focusing on enterprise adoption of utility driven digital assets. Given that crypto investing is like liquid venture capital, we systematically take profits and tend to cut losers fast and concentrate on our high-conviction theses across various sectors of the digital asset ecosystem.

Philosophy

Who We Are

Iron Key Capital is a group of entrepreneurs, financial professionals, digital asset investors, and technology and cybersecurity experts. We operate a digital asset hedge fund that invests people’s money into emerging digital assets. IKC was founded on the principle that actions rooted in passion bring about lasting change for humanity, and digital assets will usher in a new era of accountability for mankind.

What We Believe

We believe that we are obligated to be shepherds of this technology, and educate the world on the important role digital assets play in securing our future. We also believe that scarce digital assets are the most important asymmetric return asset of this decade and belong in any intelligent investor’s portfolio, given the massive amounts of government spending on top of an increasingly large deficit compounding on top of an increasingly untenable debt level with no end in sight.

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Joseph Argiro

Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Joseph is an entrepreneur and investor with a 10+ year track record of outperformance, investing in financial services, fintech, and emerging technologies. After an unsuccessful attempt to utilize Lehigh University’s servers to mine bitcoin in 2015, he unintentionally became an expert in the platform business model while building an education technology company that connected active college tour guides to prospective students. Joseph believes that blockchain technologies are the next evolution of the platform business model, given that their values largely accrue from network effects.

In 2017, he joined the crypto startup icoalert.com, performing data-driven investment research on emerging blockchain projects. After the 85% price drawdown in 2018, Joseph went on to Hewlett Packard Enterprise to work in their innovation lab focused on blockchain solutions.

Joseph has performed over 10,000 hours of blockchain and digital asset research in the last 6 years and holds a B.S in Analytical Finance and Systems Engineering from the Honors Business and Engineering program at Lehigh University.

Kevin Cage

Investment Advisor

Kevin is a macro investor, crypto enthusiast, and trader who has helped many over the past four years navigate through the cryptocurrency market. Discovering Bitcoin in 2013 from his Economics Professor, he was actively trading in the FX Market as well as the Stock Market at the time. He continued learning during his career as a Client Solutions Executive for one of the Top Fortune 500 Companies focused on enterprise cybersecurity and also worked in Argentina in International Trade.

Being a postgraduate after the 2016 Bitcoin Halving, he started a YouTube Channel in 2017 to discuss the cryptocurrency space. Since then, he has grown his channel to over 100,000 subscribers with over 16 million views. He has put in well over his 10,000 hours of experience thanks to crypto, which brings his two passions together, investing and technology. He has had some firsthand financial success in the crypto market and loves sharing his experience to inspire others.

He holds a B.A in International Trade with a Double Minor in Finance & Economics.

CryptoQF

Chief Investment Officer

“Crypto Quantamental” is an award winning published portfolio manager with experience in multi-asset allocation portfolios including strategic long term portfolios such as foundations and pensions.

This includes a futures macro strategy delivering > 2 Sharpe, 7 successful mutual funds, and 2 hedge funds. These mutual funds have won numerous awards such US Large Cap Institutional Strategy of the Year 2019, ESG Strategy of the year 2019, PSN Top Gun, Investors Business Daily Best Mutual Funds 2020.

He has been named a Rising Star in Mutual Funds by Fund Intelligence and Pension Bridge.

Dustin Douglas

Head of Operations and Strategy

Stanislaus Tandelilin

Venture Fellow

Erik Roll

CTO

This website is a general communication for informational purposes only and is not and should not be construed as advice or a recommendation concerning any security or other asset, or an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, product, service of Iron Key (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, “Iron Key”) or any fund for which Iron Key serves as investment manager or general partner, whether existing or contemplated, for which an offer can be made only by such fund’s confidential private placement memorandum and in compliance with applicable law. Iron Key is not registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Iron Key is an Exempt Reporting Adviser (ERA) and, therefore, is not required to register with the SEC or any state regulatory agency.

Iron Key is a member of NFA and is subject to NFA’s Regulatory Oversight And Examinations. Iron Key has engaged or may engage in underlying or spot virtual currency transactions in a Commodity Pool. Although, NFA has jurisdiction over Iron Key and its Commodity Pool, you should be aware that NFA does not have regulatory oversight authority for underlying or spot market virtual currency products or transactions or virtual currency exchanges, custodians or markets. You should also be aware that given certain material characteristics of these products, including lack of a centralized pricing source and the opaque nature of the virtual currency market, there currently is no sound or acceptable practice for NFA to adequately verify the ownership and control of a virtual currency or the valuation attributed to a virtual currency by Iron Key.

Investments in alternative investment vehicles entail substantial risk and are not intended as a complete investment program. Alternative investments are designed only for sophisticated investors who are able to bear the economic risk of losing all of their investment. Alertnative Investments: (1) Often engage in leveraging and other speculative investment practices that may increase the risk of investment loss; (2) Can be highly illiquid; (3) Are not required to provide periodic pricing or valuation information to investors; (4) May involve complex tax structures and delays in distributing important tax information; (5) Are not subject to the same regulatory requirements as mutual funds; and (6) Often charge high fees. Opportunities for redemption and transferability of interests in alternative investments are restricted so investors may not have access to capital when it is needed.