Deus X Capital’s Tim Grant only wants real talk when he talks to others in the crypto industry.
Deus X is a family office-backed investment and operating company focused on unlocking value across capital markets, fintech and digital assets to help build a fairer and more accessible financial system.
Led by CEO Grant, Deus X began with approximately $1 billion in assets and operates globally with offices in London, Malta and the UAE. Grant will speak at CoinDesk’s Consensus Hong Kong conference in February 2026.
The firm deploys capital through private equity, venture capital, venture building and fund allocation, supporting and building innovative businesses spanning everything from trading infrastructure and broker-as-a-service platforms to digital assets.
“What I saw was a powerful new toolset and the opportunity to address these inefficiencies in a practical way, faster settlement, lower costs, greater transparency, not by replacing traditional finance, but by integrating with it,” Grant said of his foray into crypto.
Early in his career and with no prior knowledge of bitcoin or blockchain, he said he was lucky enough to meet with the executive teams of both Ripple and Coinbase (COIN) in San Francisco, and that’s when everything changed for him. By the end of 2015, he was in the digital asset space and has been there ever since.
“Our growth strategy at Deus X is deliberately hands-on and infrastructure-led,” he said. “We believe the combination of both investment and operations is a powerful combination when it comes to executing on growth and generating strong risk-adjusted returns.”
Grant said that means building, backing and operating businesses across multiple layers of the digital finance stack, from payments and treasury to institutional DeFi, prime services, market infrastructure and execution tools.
Through companies like Deus X Pay, Cor Prime and Solstice, Deus X’s venture portfolio is expanding, he said, with each company targeting specific problems but largely working together to drive growth and share infrastructure.
For Grant, consensus is about substance rather than spectacle, he said, and given his broad portfolio of investments and companies, he said the companies always operate across the spectrum, both as providers of capital and as investors in their own ventures.
“We are looking to engage with institutions, regulators and developers who are focused on implementing digital finance in production, particularly around regulated payments, finance, tokenization, prime services and institutional DeFi,” he said.
