A Data-Led Investment Platform

Capital, paired with data.

Thesaurus funds digital-asset ventures in the world's under-tapped markets — securing data rights through every deal, and turning that data into an asset of its own.

The Thesis

Where digital rails beat the legacy ones.

In the world's most developed markets, financial infrastructure already works. The opportunity is everywhere else — the under-tapped economies where remittance is costly, banking is thin, and digital assets are not a speculation but a genuinely better way to move and hold value.

These are the markets we back. Not because they are frontier for its own sake, but because here, digital-asset infrastructure leapfrogs the legacy system entirely — and the companies building it have room to grow that mature markets no longer offer.

Invest + data rights License to third parties Reinvest lower entry cost
The Engine

Data is the second return.

Every investment does two jobs. It buys equity — and it secures the data rights that come with operating in a market no one else has mapped.

01

Invest with data rights attached

We structure each deal to secure licensed access to the venture's data alongside the equity stake.

02

Monetise the data outward

That data — scarce, compliant, from markets with no incumbent coverage — is licensed on to third parties who can't source it elsewhere.

03

Recycle into cheaper entry

Licensing revenue subsidises the next investment, lowering our effective cost of entry deal after deal.

How We Build

Patience, structure, alignment.

Three principles run through every venture we fund.

01

Strategic Patience

We think in cycles, not quarters. Compliant infrastructure and trusted data assets compound slowly — and we are built to let them.

02

Integrity Through Transparency

In regulated finance and in data, trust is the product. We hold ourselves and our ventures to that standard with investors and regulators alike.

03

Long-Term Alignment

Investors get direct, non-diluted exposure to a single opportunity — and our own returns are earned only alongside theirs.

The Platform Model

One vehicle. One opportunity. Two returns.

Each venture sits in its own dedicated structure — equity upside for investors, data upside for the platform, no dilution to either.

Equity
Direct look-through exposure
+ Data
Licensed rights secured per deal
Zero
Dilution to participating investors
Portfolio

A growing platform of under-tapped ventures.

Our first vehicle is live and deploying. Further opportunities are in development across multiple regions.

Vehicle I

Live & Deploying

Operating · data rights secured

A licensed digital-asset venture with live operations and an established roadmap, with data licensing already in place alongside the equity.

Active — details under NDA
Vehicle II

In Preparation

New region

Anchor allocation now open to qualified investors.

Raising
Vehicle III

Pipeline

Under evaluation

Sourcing in progress.

Sourcing
Why Now

The window is open.

A rare alignment of regulation, demand and data scarcity across under-tapped markets.

  • 01Digital assets are genuinely usefulIn thin-banking economies they solve real problems, not speculative ones.
  • 02Regulatory clarity is risingLicensing regimes are maturing in markets that had none.
  • 03Data is underpriced and scarceNo incumbent covers these markets — so the data has no competing supply.
  • 04Institutional capital wants structureAllocators want ring-fenced, look-through access to the upside.
Leadership

We have built the data business before.

Chair

Charles Hayter

Founder of CryptoCompare (CCdata) — the digital-asset equivalent of Refinitiv — built and sold to CoinDesk over a decade. He has already turned market data into a category-defining business. Physics & Astrophysics; CFA charterholder.

Chief of Staff

Rory Cox

Investment researcher based in Tbilisi. Has delivered intelligence across development, ports and renewables, and led private investments from data centres to logistics. Former UK Foreign Office; Oxford, Neuroscience.

COO Advisor

Steve Hewson

Thirty-year technology veteran with senior leadership across blue-chip and fintech M&A, from Web1.0 consolidation to recent growth-stage exits.

Enquire

If data and frontier upside
both interest you, so should we.

We are onboarding qualified investors and strategic co-investors for the platform. Conversations are by introduction and held in confidence.

info@thesaurus.tech