# Joshua Frank

> Joshua Frank is the co-founder and CEO of The Tie, a New York-based data and analytics company that has become a core information provider for institutional crypto investors. The Tie's SigDev Terminal and APIs deliver real-time sentiment, news, and market data to hedge funds, trading desks, banks, and exchanges. Frank left a post-trade consulting role at SS&C Technologies in 2018 to build the company full time, and has since grown it into one of the most widely used data platforms serving the professional side of digital assets.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at The Tie
- **Organizations:** The Tie, SS&C Technologies
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** McGill University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled The Tie into a leading data and analytics provider for institutional crypto, serving 100+ hedge funds, banks, market makers, and exchanges., Built the Crypto SigDev Terminal, an institutional-grade workstation for digital asset investors., Led The Tie to profitability by 2020 amid volatile crypto markets.

## Career timeline

- **pre-2018** — Worked as a consultant at SS&C Technologies developing post-trade settlement operations for custodians, brokers, and asset managers.
- **2018** — Left SS&C in March to build The Tie full time; co-founded the company focused on crypto sentiment and data analytics.
- **2019** — The Tie published research alleging roughly 90% of crypto exchanges were reporting inflated trading volume, covered by Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.
- **2020** — The Tie quadrupled its headcount and moved into profitability while building out its institutional data platform.
- **2022** — The Tie raised a $9M Series A (last raised March 2022).
- **2023-2025** — Continued scaling The Tie's SigDev Terminal and API business, adding partnerships and serving 100+ institutional clients; spoke at events including Paris Blockchain Week 2025.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled The Tie into a leading data and analytics provider for institutional crypto, serving 100+ hedge funds, banks, market makers, and exchanges.
- Built the Crypto SigDev Terminal, an institutional-grade workstation for digital asset investors.
- Led The Tie to profitability by 2020 amid volatile crypto markets.
- Raised a $9M Series A for The Tie.
- Authored/directed widely cited research on exchange volume inflation picked up by Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Appeared as a speaker at Paris Blockchain Week 2025 representing The Tie.
- **2025-07** — Discussed how institutional money watches The Tie's data before it moves in a podcast interview.

## Links

- Website: https://thetie.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-frank-56950950/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/thetieio

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Last updated: 2026-07-16