The research-driven capital group for AI-disrupted markets and ventures.
We take a rigorous and visionary approach to evaluating AI’s capacity in reshaping competitive advantage capital allocation, and value creation across the economy.
Our excellence is embedded within our core values: curiosity, rigour, conviction, and innovation. Curiosity opens the questions, rigour tests the thesis, conviction acts on the answers, and innovation ensures we never mistake those answers for the end.
Our fund is built around a defined investment mandate, a rigorous bottom-up analytical process, an actively managed portfolio, and published research we stand behind. Our thesis is not stagnant; we reassess and recalibrate our mandate every quarter. In a market defined by relentless innovation and constant disruption, intellectual rigidity is a liability. By regularly revisiting our core analytical framework, we ensure our portfolio reflects the most current and defensible view of where AI is creating and destroying value.
We deploy capital into publicly traded legacy software, running a concentrated book of high-conviction positions sized by conviction and downside risk. We screen for companies where the selloff appears sentiment-driven rather than fundamental. Each company is run through a two-pronged analysis, and all positions require a completed investment memo and a formal investment committee vote before capital is deployed.
Does the company possess proprietary data, complex infrastructure, deep back-end engineering, or hard-to-replicate scale that insulates it from disruption?
Can the company actively harness AI to improve its products, reduce costs, or drive meaningful operational efficiency? Companies that pass both prongs form our shortlist.
The fund is the foundation. AI Capital is built to become a multi-university network, expanding across institutions globally and spinning out a venture capital fund deploying into early-stage university AI startups. The ambition is to establish AI Capital as the global standard for AI investing methodology at universities, a think tank that defines how the next generation of analysts thinks about capital allocation in an AI-restructured world.
Lea leads operations and outreach, overseeing the group's strategic partnerships, external communications, and day-to-day execution.
Yash leads the capital allocation process, shaping investment strategy, markets coverage, and the group's expansion.
Curiosity — Curiosity prompts the questions.
Rigour — Rigour tests the thesis.
Conviction — Conviction acts on the answers.
Innovation — Innovation ensures we never mistake those answers for the end.
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