Tim Grant of Deus
Deus
Led by CEO Grant, Deus X started with approximately $1 billion in assets and operates globally with offices in London, Malta and the United Arab Emirates. Grant will speak at CoinDesk’s Consensus Hong Kong conference in February 2026.
The firm deploys capital through private equity, venture capital, venture creation and fund allocation, supporting and building innovative companies spanning everything from trading infrastructure and broker-as-a-service platforms to digital asset companies.
“What I saw was a powerful new set of tools and the opportunity to address those 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 entry into cryptocurrencies.
Early in your career and with no prior knowledge of bitcoin or blockchain, said he was lucky enough to meet with the executive teams of Ripple and Coinbase (COIN) in San Francisco, and that’s where everything changed for him. At the end of 2015 it was in the digital asset space and has been there ever since.
“Our growth strategy at Deus X is deliberately practical and infrastructure-based,” he said. “We believe the combination of investing and operating is a powerful combination when it comes to executing growth and generating strong risk-adjusted returns.”
Grant said that means building, supporting and operating businesses across multiple layers of the digital finance stack, from payments and treasury to institutional DeFi, premium services, market infrastructure and execution tools.
Through businesses like Deus X Pay, Cor Prime and Solstice, Deus
For Grant, consensus is about substance rather than spectacle, he said, and given his broad portfolio of investments and companies, he said companies are always operating across the spectrum, both as providers of capital and as investors in their own companies.
“We are looking to collaborate with institutions, regulators and builders that are focused on implementing digital finance in production, particularly around regulated payments, treasury, tokenization, core services and institutional DeFi,” he said.
