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Tiny Ltd.

Tiny buys profitable small businesses and invests their cash into other companies and funds.

Tiny Ltd. is a holding company, which is a fancy way of saying it's a collection of businesses and investments under one roof. It has two main parts. The first part is owning stakes in operating companies — mostly small, profitable internet and software businesses it buys or invests in. The second part is a big pile of investments in stocks, funds, and other companies, managed sort of like a private investment club. The way it makes money is simple: the businesses it owns send it cash, and the investments it holds (like its stake in the crypto exchange Kraken, which has been a major part of its story) rise in value or pay off. Customers are just the people who use those underlying businesses — website visitors, software users — and they pay via subscriptions or purchases.

Think of it as a smart teenager with a paper route who saves the money and starts buying pieces of other people's lemonade stands. Tiny started in 2020, founded by Andrew Wilkinson and Chris Sparling, who had already built and sold design and software companies. They looked at how Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway worked — buy good small businesses, keep their managers, and use the cash to buy more — and decided to do the same for the internet age. The company went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange, which gave it a currency (its own shares) to make deals and a way for early investors to cash out.

Since going public, Tiny has grown by buying companies like the Dribbble design community and Metalab, a design agency, and by making bold concentrated bets, especially on crypto through its Kraken stake. That bet cuts both ways: when crypto boomed, Tiny's value soared; when it crashed, so did Tiny's stock. In 2024 and 2025 the company has been dealing with that hangover, buying back its own cheap shares and trying to prove the boring parts of its portfolio — the small profitable businesses — are worth more than the market gives it credit for. Its free cash flow mostly goes toward new acquisitions, buybacks, and occasionally paying down debt, rather than dividends. The big question hanging over it is what happens with its Kraken ownership, since that single investment can swing the whole company's value more than everything else combined.

Saved answer · last researched 10 Oct 2026