Andy Martinez is an investment professional and the founder and CEO of Crypto Insights Group, an institutional data and intelligence platform focused on digital assets. His career spans buyside investment roles with a focus on frontier markets, hedge funds, alternative asset strategies, and digital asset management. Martinez holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. ^[3]

Education

Martinez graduated from the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), where he earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering. ^[1]​

Career

Martinez began his investment career in 2014 at Frontier Global Partners, a firm specializing in frontier and emerging markets. Over six years, he progressed to the role of Partner on the investment team. His work involved public equity strategies across more than 30 frontier markets. In 2020, he became a partner on the investment team at Dalpha Capital Management, where he continued his buyside investing work with an emphasis on alternative and global strategies until 2022. During his time at the crypto fund-of-funds, he conducted due diligence on over 400 crypto funds. This experience provided him with a direct understanding of the structural challenges and lack of standardized evaluation tools between institutional allocators and digital asset managers, which later served as the principal motivation for founding Crypto Insights Group. From 2022 to 2023, Martinez was based in New York and served as a Portfolio Manager at Room40, a large hedge fund. In this role, he was responsible for leading liquid venture investment strategies. Concurrently with his primary investment activities in 2023, he also took on a strategic advisory role for an early-stage firm operating in stealth mode. ^{[1] [2]}​

Crypto Insights Group (CIG)

In 2024, Martinez founded Crypto Insights Group (CIG) and serves as its CEO. The firm was established to be an institutional-grade data, research, and intelligence platform focused on digital asset investment managers, including hedge funds, Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs), and emerging on-chain investment vehicles. The company’s stated mission is to address the gap in the market for institutional-quality tools and to bring greater standardization, transparency, and analytical rigor to the process of evaluating digital asset investments.

The formation of CIG was a direct response to several challenges Martinez identified within the digital asset investment landscape. These included the inefficiency of investment tools designed for traditional finance when applied to digital assets, the disproportionately high time commitment required for allocators to research the asset class, an over-reliance on word-of-mouth for fund discovery, and a general lack of standardized, comprehensive data for due diligence.

In a statement about the company's founding, Martinez noted, "In my experience, allocators and fund managers face a persistent problem: the tools they rely on, built for traditional finance, simply aren’t designed for digital assets. Our vision is simple: create a platform that bridges the gap between institutional needs and the complexities of digital assets." ^[4]