Company Name: Bitwise Asset Management

Founders: Hong Kim and Hunter Horsley

Date Founded: December 2016

Location of Headquarters: San Francisco, CA and New York, NY

Amount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: Undisclosed

Number of Employees: 65

Website: https://bitwiseinvestments.com/

Public or Private? Private

In 2016, Hong Kim and his co-founder at Bitwise Asset Management (Bitwise), Hunter Horsely, were living the startup life — working from a living room in San Francisco and looking for a project that they could develop into a business.

While experimenting with various ideas, none of which were gaining much traction, their friends wouldn’t shut up about Bitcoin. Plus, by early 2016, every…

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