skew.

skew. is a London-based financial technology company founded in 2018 by former JPMorgan and Citigroup derivatives traders Emmanuel Goh and Tim Noat, built to solve a clear market gap: the cryptocurrency derivatives market was growing explosively, but institutional traders lacked the data infrastructure they needed to participate with the same sophistication they applied to traditional markets. skew.'s platform provided real-time analytics on open interest, futures term structures, volatility curves, funding rates, and options data across all major crypto exchanges — bringing the kind of market intelligence that Bloomberg terminals provide to traditional finance, directly to the digital asset space.

The company's flagship product, skewAnalytics, quickly became the go-to platform for institutional investors, hedge funds, and exchanges seeking to understand crypto derivatives market structure. By 2020, skew. had attracted over 1,000 corporate users from more than 600 companies globally. It expanded into trade execution through skewTrading, a platform built in partnership with UK-regulated interdealer broker Kyte Broking that allowed institutional investors to access liquidity across listed and OTC crypto markets in a fully FCA-compliant environment. skew.'s user base spanned the three core regions of Japan, the US, and the UK.

skew. raised $2 million in seed funding in 2019 led by Firstminute Capital, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Seedcamp, and Kima Ventures, before closing a $5 million Series A in April 2020 led by Octopus Ventures with Digital Currency Group and existing investors. In April 2021, skew. was acquired by Coinbase — the Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange — and integrated into Coinbase Prime, its institutional product suite. The acquisition was widely regarded as a landmark moment for institutional crypto data infrastructure.