The Spartan Group describes itself as a crypto-native digital asset advisor, asset manager and Web3 venture studio that advises, invests and builds with entrepreneurs in Web3. It states it has backed crypto companies and networks, and that it also works on Web3 mergers and acquisitions and capital raises. The firm runs three stated divisions: Spartan Advisory for M&A, token deals, restructuring, strategic financing and capital raising; Spartan Capital, which manages over $500 million across long/short, market neutral and venture strategies; and Spartan Labs, a venture studio and incubator. Spartan Advisory states its mission is to bring together best practices from traditional finance with the innovation and creativity of the wider Web3 community, and it serves accredited, expert and institutional investors only.
US$500M (the group's own homepage shows "$500M / Assets Under Management", undated, checked 2026; the firm's 29 September 2025 release attributes the figure to Spartan Capital, the group's asset-management arm, across long/short, market neutral and venture strategies - a firm-wide asset-management figure, not a venture fund close) AUM68/100 Power Score™2017 FoundedSingapore, Singapore
The Spartan Group is founded by Goldman Sachs alumni Melody He, Kelvin Koh and Casper B. Johansen.
2019
Kelvin Koh publicly introduces The Spartan Group on 4 January 2019, describing an advisory business, a digital asset management business running the Spartan Global Blockchain Opportunity Fund, and a compliance services arm.
2025
Leeor Groen, who joined in 2021 as Executive Director, is promoted to Partner on 29 September 2025, described by the firm as its first new Partner since its 2017 founding.