What Faculty Group does

Faculty Group is a blockchain-native holding company headquartered in Dubai, UAE, structured as a collective of synergistic firms operating across three integrated disciplines: Advisory, Capital Markets, and Services & Products. Through Advisory, the group provides consulting and token design services to institutions and enterprises entering blockchain infrastructure and digital assets, covering strategy through execution. Through Capital Markets (Faculty Capital), it deploys venture capital paired with active capital-markets support into protocols and companies defining the digital-asset cycle. Through Services & Products, it operates wholly-owned subsidiaries — Yelay (on-chain yield infrastructure), Wayex (digital-asset payments and exchange), and X8C (creative production and brand studio).

The group's core technology consists of three operational layers: (1) an advisory practice that delivers strategy, tokenisation, market structure, and token economics consulting; (2) a venture capital platform (Faculty Capital) that backs digital-asset protocols and companies (with disclosed portfolio exposure including Sui and Avalanche); and (3) operating-company infrastructure for yield management, payments/exchange, and creative production. The integrated structure allows ideas to flow from strategy (Advisory) to investment (Capital Markets) to live product (Services & Products) without leaving the group.

Faculty Group monetizes through professional-services fees (advisory), venture investment returns and capital-markets support fees (Faculty Capital), and revenue from its operating subsidiaries. The company employs 51–100 people, is privately held with no disclosed parent entity or ownership percentages, and has a single confirmed leader, founding partner Luke Lombe. Customer-facing go-to-market is primarily direct B2B enterprise sales across all three divisions, with global reach but no disclosed revenue figures, valuation, or customer logos beyond its own subsidiaries.

Name

Faculty Group

Legal name

Faculty Group

Website

https://faculty.group

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Faculty Group is a Dubai-based blockchain-native holding company operating three integrated divisions — Advisory (institutional consulting), Faculty Capital (venture investment), and operating subsidiaries Yelay, Wayex, and X8C — serving institutions and founders building in the digital-asset economy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dubai

HQ country

United Arab Emirates

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Advisory Services: Consulting and token design for institutions and enterprises moving into blockchain infrastructure and digital assets, covering strategy through execution. Previously operated as a standalone brand, now integrated under Faculty Group.
2. Venture Capital Investment: Investment in and market access to protocols and companies through Faculty Capital, providing venture capital paired with active capital-markets support.
3. Operating Companies Revenue: Revenue generated from standalone businesses under the Faculty Group umbrella: Yelay (on-chain yield infrastructure), Wayex (digital-asset payments and exchange), and X8C (creative production and brand studio).

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Faculty Group is a blockchain-native holding company that operates across three disciplines: (1) Advisory consulting and token design for institutions and enterprises entering blockchain infrastructure and digital assets; (2) Capital Markets venture investment and active capital-markets support for blockchain protocols and companies, delivered through Faculty Capital; and (3) Services & Products, comprising wholly-owned operating businesses Yelay (on-chain yield infrastructure), Wayex (digital-asset payments and exchange), and X8C (creative production and brand studio).

Product overview

Faculty Group is a blockchain-native holding company operating a platform-plus-services model across three disciplines: Advisory (consulting and token design for institutions entering digital assets), Capital Markets (venture investment and market access through Faculty Capital), and Services & Products (standalone operating companies). The product portfolio includes Yelay (on-chain yield infrastructure for allocating and managing digital assets), Wayex (digital-asset payments and exchange bridging crypto with everyday spending), and X8C (creative production and brand studio). The group is structured so ideas can move from strategy (Advisory) to investment (Capital Markets) to live product (Services & Products) without leaving the organization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Yelay: On-chain yield infrastructure for allocating and managing digital assets.
• Wayex
• X8C
• Faculty Capital
• Faculty Advisory

Products and services

• Advisory (Faculty Advisory) Consulting and token design practice helping institutions and enterprises move into blockchain infrastructure and digital assets, covering digital asset strategy, tokenisation, invoice tokenisation, and token economics and market structure design from strategy through execution. Previously operated as a standalone brand and now operates under the Faculty Group banner.
• Faculty Capital Venture investment and market-access operation that invests in and supports protocols and companies defining the next cycle of digital assets, pairing venture capital with active capital-markets support. Investments include participation in seed funding rounds for blockchain-native companies such as Novastro.
• Yelay Wholly-owned operating company providing on-chain yield infrastructure for allocating and managing digital assets.
• Wayex Wholly-owned operating company providing digital-asset payments and exchange, bridging crypto and everyday spending.
• X8C Wholly-owned operating company serving as a creative production and brand studio for category-defining ventures.

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Coinshares: European crypto asset manager and investment firm offering venture, trading and ETPs. Comparable across the capital-markets and venture-investment dimensions of Faculty Group's model.
• Coinbase Ventures: Investment arm of Coinbase, backing early-stage crypto companies and protocols. Comparable to Faculty Capital as a strategic investor in the same protocol ecosystem.

Direct peers

• Galaxy Digital: Public crypto-native financial services firm combining trading, asset management, venture investing and mining/infrastructure. Directly comparable to Faculty Group's integrated advisory + capital + operating model, though at materially larger scale.
• Digital Currency Group: Private holding company for crypto ventures (Grayscale, Foundry, CoinDesk, Luno). Closest structural analogue to Faculty Group as a blockchain-native holding company bundling venture capital, operating subsidiaries and media/incubator functions.
• Pantera Capital: Long-standing crypto-focused venture and hedge fund manager. Comparable to Faculty Capital's venture-investment and capital-markets support activities, including seed-stage protocol backing.
• Delphi Labs: Research, venture and infrastructure firm focused on DeFi and digital assets. Comparable to Faculty Group's combination of token-design advisory, venture investing and protocol support.
• CMS Holdings: Crypto-native investment firm making liquid and venture bets across digital assets. Comparable to Faculty Capital's venture-plus-capital-markets orientation.
• Block.one: Holding/investment vehicle behind EOS with venture and software activities. A direct structural analogue as a blockchain-native holding company with operating subsidiaries.

Regional players

• HashKey Capital: Asia-based crypto venture and advisory arm under HashKey Group. Comparable to Faculty Capital and Faculty Advisory for institutional clients entering digital assets, particularly in Asia-Pacific.

Emerging players

• Outlier Ventures: Crypto accelerator and venture firm offering token design, advisory and incubation for Web3 founders. Comparable to Faculty Advisory's token-design and consulting practice combined with Faculty Capital's incubation ethos.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Faculty__Group

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments27 records

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