Patrick Horsman, CFA, is the Chief Investment Officer of BNB Plus Corp. (Nasdaq: BNBX), a Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury holding BNB and generating native yield from the Binance ecosystem. He is also the Founder of Octopus Investments and Horsman Holdings, and over two decades has built and capitalized alternative investment platforms across hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and digital assets, with a focus on niche strategies that hold a sustainable competitive advantage.
Patrick Horsman is a Canadian-born American investor and entrepreneur who has spent more than two decades building businesses in alternative assets. His career has stretched across capital raising, hedge funds, private equity, agricultural land, real estate, thematic ETFs, and digital assets, bound together by a single discipline: identify durable advantage in places mainstream capital has yet to map.
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Patrick relocated to Scottsdale, Arizona at fifteen. He went on to graduate Magna Cum Laude from the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management with a triple major in finance, accounting, and entrepreneurship. That same year, 2002, he co-founded his first firm, Blue Sand Securities.
Today he is the Founder and Managing Partner of Octopus Investments, a Puerto Rico-based platform that identifies, structures, and seeds alternative asset managers. He also leads the team at Horsman Holdings, his single-family office, and has co-founded firms across litigation finance, agricultural development, decentralized finance, and real estate.
Patrick is a CFA Charterholder and is or has been a member of TIGER 21, the Milken Institute, The Family Office Association, 3i Members, The Legacy Alliance and the Financial Analysts Society of Puerto Rico. He resides in San Juan with his family.
A FINRA-registered placement agent and broker-dealer raising institutional capital for hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and venture funds. Over its history the firm has raised more than $15 billion from institutional investors.
Event-driven hedge funds focused on litigation finance. Co-launched with securities attorney Andrew Barroway and Sam Johnson. Reached approximately $1.2 billion in peak assets under management.
The leading capital introduction conference series in the alternatives industry, connecting hedge fund and private equity managers with institutional allocators across multiple flagship events globally each year.
A private equity fund developing US farmland for institutional investors with a specialty in water infrastructure and sub-surface drip irrigation. Approximately 17,000 acres of farmland developed on behalf of LPs across Arizona and California.
A thematic ETF index sponsor leveraging Natural Language Processing to construct exposure to emerging themes. Launched three ETFs on the NYSE: KOIN (one of the first blockchain ETFs), EKAR, and THCX (one of the first cannabis ETFs).
The general partner of Esoteric Strategies, a venture capital fund investing in pre-IPO growth equity companies. The fund pursues late-stage private positions in category-defining businesses approaching public-market liquidity, sourced through Patrick's institutional network across the alternatives ecosystem.
A Puerto Rico-based investment management platform that identifies, structures, provides seed capital, and builds alternative asset management businesses globally. Octopus operates across digital assets and other esoteric strategies.
An investment platform focused on decentralized finance and market-neutral strategies within crypto. Featured at industry forums including Investopia and panels covering the future of DeFi.
An institutional real estate developer, operator, and investor managing a private equity fund across industrial, self-storage, data center, and luxury residential development in Arizona and other high-growth Western US markets. Approximately 500,000 square feet under development with a pipeline approaching 2 million square feet across submarkets including Buckeye, Casa Grande, Marana, Chandler, Queen Creek, and Scottsdale.
A private equity firm specializing in the development of brands, intellectual property, and intangible assets, with a focus on hidden assets, lost brands, and recovery projects sourced through proprietary internal research.
Public-company digital asset treasury delivering institutional-grade access to the Binance ecosystem. Patrick leads investment strategy alongside Chairman Joshua Kruger, CEO Clay Shorrock, and strategic advisor Anthony Scaramucci of SkyBridge Capital. The platform combines a long BNB position with non-directional yield strategies designed to grow BNB-per-share for long-term holders.
Single-family office investing across alternatives on behalf of family trusts, insurance companies, foundations, and related entities. Long-duration capital, allocator across the platforms above.
Identifies, structures, seeds, and operationally supports alternative asset managers globally from a Puerto Rico base. The platform underwrites strategies that are uncorrelated, niche, and durable.
Long-duration capital for family trusts, insurance entities, and foundations, allocating across the platforms within the Horsman investment universe and select third-party opportunities.
The general partner of Esoteric Strategies, a venture capital fund investing in pre-IPO growth equity. The fund takes late-stage private positions in category-defining businesses approaching public-market liquidity, sourced through Patrick's institutional network across the alternatives ecosystem.
An institutional real estate developer, operator, and investor managing a private equity fund focused on industrial, self-storage, data center, and luxury residential development across Arizona and other high-growth Western US markets. Approximately 500,000 square feet under development with a pipeline approaching 2 million square feet.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Triple major in Finance, Accounting, and Entrepreneurship. Graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2002.
Member of the Basketball, Golf, Track, and Cross-Country teams. Graduated 1998 prior to matriculating at the University of Arizona.
Why well-capitalized developers with finished inventory will be in an enviable position twelve to eighteen months from now, and what that means for cap rates in select Sun Belt markets.
Read essayAn on-the-ground view of what Puerto Rico's tax incentive regime has actually delivered for operating businesses since 2012, and where the friction still lives.
Read essayA reflection on twenty years of seeding strategies that didn't fit a standard mandate, and the structural reasons capital still avoids the most interesting parts of the market.
Read essayPatrick has been quoted and featured in coverage from The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune, Hedge Fund Alert, Cointelegraph, The Block, Hedgeweek, Seeking Alpha, and others, primarily on digital asset treasuries, the Binance ecosystem, and the broader trajectory of institutional crypto capital.
“I think we could see bitcoin get all the way back to $60,000. We don't think the pain is over.”
A college-preparatory charter school network created to give Puerto Rico's families the kind of education that has been the privilege of the few.
Patrick is one of three co-founders of Paradiso College Preparatory, alongside Joshua Kruger and Brenton Nevarez. The school is a network of tuition-free charter schools in Puerto Rico designed to deliver a rigorous, college-preparatory education to students of every background. It exists for a straightforward reason: in a U.S. territory where access to quality K-12 education has been uneven for generations, the most consequential thing a person can do is help build institutions that change the trajectory of a child's life.
Paradiso operates a college-preparatory model currently serving grades five through ten, with one new upper-school grade added each year as the founding cohort matures. This deliberate build-up approach lets the school get every grade right before adding the next. The curriculum and faculty are selected to prepare every graduate for admission to a competitive four-year university, not as the exception, but as the expectation. Patrick raised $17 million of founding capital to launch the school, of which he contributed more than $2 million personally, and he continues to serve as a member of the board of the CMO (Charter Management Organization).
Paradiso reflects a conviction that runs through Patrick's professional career as well: that real value is created in the places where conventional capital and conventional thinking have not yet arrived, and that the most durable returns, financial or otherwise, come from building what should exist rather than allocating to what already does.
Butler National · Kings of EBITDA · since age 15
Reefs of Puerto Rico · founder, 100+ member group
Caribbean coast · international rounds
City life · downtown Manhattan
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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