Our Story

Crypto is the future. Our mission is to guide you there.

Based in San Francisco, Bitwise is one of the largest and fastest-growing crypto asset managers, offering both index and active strategies across a wide array of investment vehicles. The firm is known for creating the world’s largest crypto index fund (OTCQX: BITW), a suite of crypto-focused equity and futures ETFs, and investment products that span Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, NFTs, and the Metaverse. Bitwise focuses on partnering with financial advisors and investment professionals to provide quality education and research.

The team at Bitwise combines expertise in technology with decades of experience in traditional asset management and indexing, coming from firms including BlackRock, Blackstone, Meta, and Google, as well as the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Bitwise is backed by leading institutional investors and asset management executives, and has been profiled in Institutional Investor, CNBC, Barron’s, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal.

Our Team

A world-class team dedicated to expanding access to crypto

Hunter Horsley

CEO, Board Director

Previously Product Manager on monetization at Facebook and Instagram. Received his BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Forbes 30 Under 30 selection.

Teddy Fusaro

President

Previously SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager at New York Life, Head of Portfolio Management and Trading at IndexIQ, VP at Direxion, Goldman Sachs.

Katherine Dowling

General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer

Previously General Counsel & CCO for True Capital Management. Before that, COO & CCO at Luminate Capital Partners. Spent 10+ years as Assistant U.S. Attorney, most recently in the Economic Crimes Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California.

Matt Hougan

Chief Investment Officer

Previously CEO at Inside ETFs, Managing Director of Global Finance at Informa. Before that, CEO of ETF.com. Co-authored the CFA Institute's monograph on ETFs.