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Talos
Talos provides the OEMS, PMS, and connectivity infrastructure that institutions use to trade digital assets across 100+ liquidity providers globally.
Talos
Talos launched in 2018 as purpose-built infrastructure for institutions entering digital asset markets. Rather than managing proprietary capital, the firm sells the pipes: a unified OEMS, PMS, and data layer that abstracts away the fragmentation of ~60 execution venues and over 40 connected dealers, custodians, and settlement networks. The platform covers the full trade lifecycle from price discovery through execution, settlement, and post-trade analytics. It supports systematic hedge funds constructing custom portfolios as well as banks operating market-making desks, and brokers white-labeling crypto access for underlying clients. Asset-class coverage spans spot, perpetuals, futures, and options. Talos integrates FIX connectivity, multi-dealer RFQ, smart order routing, and a suite of execution algorithms — the same institutional tooling familiar from equities and FX, rebuilt for the continuous 24/7 crypto market. Geographic delivery extends from the New York headquarters to offices in London, Singapore, and Nicosia, serving clients across North America, EMEA, and Asia. Talos does not disclose assets under management or total deployment, consistent with a software-and-connectivity provider architecture. The firm is privately held and backed by a syndicate of digital-asset specialist investors. In addition to the flagship trading platform, Talos markets a white-label offering that lets banks, brokers, and neo-banks embed crypto trading into their own user interfaces, as well as treasury and settlement modules that integrate with existing OMS/PMS installations. The firm has been recognized in multiple institutional awards programs, including Risk.net Markets Technology Awards 2026 and the TabbFORUM 40 for 2025 and 2024. What distinguishes Talos from a conventional fintech vendor is that it does not intermediate as a broker-dealer; it operates as a neutral infrastructure layer. The client base spans every institutional archetype — buy-side, sell-side, systematic fund, bank — meaning the platform itself becomes a de facto venue for counterparty discovery while the firm remains structurally agnostic to flow direction, a posture that aligns incentives with connectivity breadth rather than trade capture.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
2018
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
New York
Corporate office
300 Park Avenue South, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10010, United States
Additional offices
London, United Kingdom · Singapore · Nicosia, Cyprus
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
What does Talos actually sell — is it a fund, a broker, or software?
Talos sells a software-and-connectivity platform, not investment management or brokerage services. Its core product is a unified order and execution management system (OEMS) paired with portfolio management, treasury, and settlement modules, all accessed via API or GUI. The firm does not take proprietary risk or custody assets; it provides the infrastructure layer through which hedge funds, asset managers, banks, and OTC desks route digital asset trades to over 100 connected liquidity providers.
How does Talos source its liquidity and venue connectivity?
Talos aggregates connectivity to approximately 60 execution venues and more than 40 dealers, custodians, and settlement networks through a single integration point. The platform supports FIX, REST, and WebSocket protocols, allowing clients to reach spot, perpetuals, futures, and options markets without building and maintaining individual exchange connections. Talos acts as a neutral aggregator — it does not operate an exchange or a principal OTC desk itself.
Who runs investment decisions at Talos — or does it even have an investment team?
Talos does not manage discretionary investment portfolios, so there is no CIO or investment committee making allocation decisions in the traditional sense. The firm is a technology provider; product and engineering leadership drive decisions about which asset classes, venues, and execution tools to support. Publicly available sources do not name a CEO or founder as of the latest review, and the firm's website does not list an executive team page.
What investment stages or asset classes does Talos cover on its platform?
Talos covers the full spectrum of listed and OTC digital asset instruments: spot, perpetual swaps, dated futures, and options. The platform is instrument-agnostic and venue-agnostic, meaning it supports whatever its connected providers list. Talos does not itself provide exposure to private equity, venture capital, or token seed rounds; its universe is limited to tradeable digital asset instruments available through its exchange and dealer network.
Which sectors does Talos explicitly avoid?
Talos does not operate as an asset manager, so sector avoidance does not apply in the same sense as for a fund. The platform does not offer equities, fixed income, or traditional derivatives trading. Its infrastructure is purpose-built for digital assets, and there is no indication that Talos intends to extend into traditional asset-class connectivity, where incumbent OEMS providers already dominate.
Is Talos structured as a single-family office, a venture-backed company, or something else?
Talos is a privately held, venture-backed technology company, not a family office. Capital has come from a syndicate of specialist digital-asset investors whose identities are disclosed on the firm's website. The firm operates a conventional corporate structure with commercial offices in New York, London, Singapore, and Nicosia, generating revenue from platform subscription and connectivity fees rather than management or performance fees on third-party capital.
Does Talos participate in fund commitments or only direct trading infrastructure?
Talos does not make fund commitments. Its entire business is providing the trading, portfolio management, and settlement infrastructure that other institutions use to run their own fund commitments and direct trading strategies. Some clients use Talos to execute the trades within digital-asset fund structures, including ETFs that require creation/redemption workflows, but Talos is not the manager or sponsor of those vehicles.
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