We make crypto assets investable
Institutions and individual investors seek thoughtful, risk-aware access to this emerging asset class. S2F provides institutional-grade oversight, research, and execution to help navigate a volatile yet opportunity-rich market.
Guided by Discovery and Discipline
S2F is led by a multidisciplinary team with backgrounds in engineering, data science, the natural sciences, and institutional investment management. Our collective expertise spans mathematics, statistics, computer science, and portfolio management. Founding members of our team have been involved in digital assets since 2014, offering long-term market familiarity that informs our research perspective.

Our investment philosophy:
Volatility demands discipline
Crypto’s extreme volatility, 24/7 trading, and rapidly shifting liquidity make emotionally drivendecisions almost inevitable for most investors. Without a structured process, investors tend tooverreact to noise and misjudge risk. A disciplined framework is essential to participate in the assetclass without being dominated by market stress.
Bitcoin’s structural tailwinds
Bitcoin continues to strengthen as a long-term macro asset, supported by growing institutional adoption and emerging allocation frameworks that pair it with traditional stores of value. However, in a market this volatile, simple exposure is rarely enough. Long-term success depends on managing how and when risk is taken, not just holding the underlying asset.
Turning market structure into signals
Our research shows that Bitcoin’s behavior can be measured and modeled, with price actionclosely linked to global macro-liquidity cycles. By translating these dynamics into momentum,breakout, volatility, and mean-reversion signals, we turn market structure into rules-baseddecisions. This allows us to approach the asset class with consistency rather than discretion.
Systematic processes beat emotion
Systematic signals remove emotion from the decision process and help manage volatility moreeffectively than judgment alone. This improves risk-adjusted returns and makes participation incrypto more realistic for institutions and high-net-worth investors. The goal is to capture structuralupside while reducing behavioral drag.
Our story, year by year
2020
Foundational phase
Initial development of discretionary, on-chain analytics-driven investment approaches, executed manually with an emphasis on market structure research.
2021
Early research acceleration
Initiated exploration into momentum and trend signals across digital-asset markets.
2022
Risk-first discipline
Built and refined quantitative risk-management tooling, focusing on downside mitigation, volatility filtering, and regime identification.
2023
Systematic transition
Expanded our research team, introduced formal model governance frameworks, and began developing internal execution pathways for systematic trading.
2024
Integration of systematic components
Launched live testing of S2F’s AlphaTrends architecture, incorporating blended momentum and mean-reversion signals under a structured execution environment.
2025
Full quant implementation
Completed migration to a fully systematic strategy in July, operating as an entirely signal-driven, execution-optimized trend-following fund.
A systematic framework designed to achieve three core objectives

Diversification
Systematic exposures that complement traditional allocations and introduce differentiated, non-correlated return drivers.

Risk-Adjusted Returns
Models engineered with an emphasis on robustness and discipline, aiming to improve portfolio efficiency across diverse market regimes.

Managed Volatility
Adaptive positioning guided by volatility and regime-sensitive signals to help reduce drawdowns and smooth return profiles through time.
Our Team
Our team blends quantitative rigor with deep market understanding to create systematic investment strategies designed for institutional portfolios.

Micah Spruill
Managing Partner | CEO & CIO

Malon Courts
Managing Partner | Chairman

Brian Robbins
Managing Partner | CFO & COO

Gabriele Di Gesu
Partner | Head of Research

Joseph Zambrano
Partner | Head of Execution

Tyler Viducic, PhD
Quantitative Researcher

Scott Paterson
Head of Capital Formation

Joel O’Connor
Quant Analyst

Cameron Odell
Quant Analyst

Willy Woo
Partner | Quant Advisor

Luke Parker
OEMS Developer

Cameron Crowley
Co-Founder Emeritus
Strategic Partners
S2F partners with specialized research and data providers to enhance our systematic investment process. These relationships support signal research, market-structure analysis, and data integrity.

Swissblock is a quantitative research group focused on systematic digital-asset strategies. S2F integrates Swissblock’s proprietary trend-based signals into our broader portfolio-construction and execution framework.

