Joshua Frank is the co-founder and CEO of The Tie, a crypto-focused analytics startup that uses sentiment analysis to evaluate social media and news sources.
He worked at SS&C Technologies before co-founding The Tie, where he helped build solutions for custodians, brokers, and asset managers. He grew more interested in the digital asset area when he encountered "a lack of reliable and transparent data and technology" and decided to leave his job at SS&C in March 2018 to focus solely on The Tie.
Over the course of 2020, The Tie tripled its personnel and discreetly moved into profit, establishing a strong tech foundation that has allowed the company to collaborate with dozens of high-profile crypto firms.
"I believe that out of Bitcoin's rise, another alt season will bloom on the back of retail investor FOMO and the never-ending chase for Lambos and 100x returns," He said.
His stated objective for the next 12 months is to grow The Tie to 40 or more workers, as well as rebuild the SigDev product and increase the number of sources included in its digest to over 6,000 in a variety of languages.
He and The Tie are also collaborating with a prominent crypto media partner on a sentiment and news-focused dashboard for traders, which will employ a topographic map of trading situations to compare present conditions to similar snapshots throughout time.