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About AIM

Auroville Investment Management (“AIM") is an investment management firm headquartered in Hong Kong SAR, China with offices in Mumbai and New Delhi in India. While AIM specializes in investments in the Asia Pacific region, it combines world-class financial expertise and talent from the East and West, to deliver attractive absolute returns over time.

Auroville Investment Management (HK) Limited was formerly registered with the SFC in HK holding a Type 9 Asset management license, and prior with the SEC in the US as a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and SEBI in India as a Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI) license holder. Founded in 2017 by Amar Anand, it has brought together experienced PMs and analysts from leading investment firms globally. Investment team is assisted by a high caliber Data Science, Trading, and Operations team.

AIM Investment Strategy

Invests with an Asia thematic bias leveraging deep-fundamental and data-science

We invest globally with a strong Asia-Pacific thematic bias (at least >50% of NAV) across both listed and unlisted securities. Our investment strategy is driven by deep fundamental bottom-up research which seeks to identify opportunities which provide an asymmetric risk-reward where we have a differentiated view to the market consensus. In doing so, we partner with market leading companies or ones where we see rapid market-share gains where incremental returns on invested capital are increasing. We're always on the lookout to support passionate management teams with a vision we share, strong track record of execution and corporate governance. Our portfolios tend to have a growth and quality bias, as we've found that Value in Asia tends to be a value trap, so we're more GARP oriented.

Our goal is to deliver attractive absolute compounded annual returns over time (targeting 15%+) with diversified exposure across sectors, countries and investment themes to yield lower volatility and higher risk adjusted returns than market indices. Aim to target low-correlation returns (avg. beta <0.5) while maximizing up vs down beta skew.

Risk management is imbedded in our investment philosophy and portfolio construction approach where Capital Preservation both on long and short side is a primary objective.

Data Science augments the investment process where we analyze Big Data sets across multiple data stacks to augment our fundamental investment signals. We also leverage quant techniques like NLP, Factor analysis, machine learnings, and macro models.

Auro Group Ventures:

Leverages Auro Group's deep domain expertise in FinTech and Artificial Intelligence. Focus on Internet, SaaS, Blockchain, Financial and IT Services where we have a deep understanding of these business models having made some marquis investments in similar companies in the East and the West. Value add via horizontal expertise in AI recommendation engines and machine/deep learning and helping navigate the VC fundraising ecosystem. Below is our current portfolio:

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Private Investments​ Portfolio : Download as PDF

Venture Studio: In addition to investing, we also ideate/incubate new ventures and then transition them to professional management teams. Below is our current portfolio: ​

  • World's Gateway to Digital Asset. Leading 1. Order (OMS), 2. Execution (EMS) and 3. Portfolio Management systems (PMS) FOR Institutions

  • World's Gateway for Investment Discovery. Marketplace for Crypto Fund Manager and Tokens

  • AI-ML based investment management strategies trades 60+ crypto currencies

  • Revolutionizing Invest-Tech Learning using Al to bridge the gap between Academia and Earning Ability ​

  • Auro.ai creates the world's first Hedge Fund portfolios of one for every individual in the next level of Robo Advisory. ​

  • Co-Innovation NOT Co-Working. Our Co Innovation spaces offer "Coworking with a difference

  • Uniting Yoga and Data Science for Total Transformation

  • Platform for writers, publishers and book lovers ​. Available in over 20 Indian languages (Adding Portuguese, Mandarin, Arabic and Spanish). Writers can write, publish and earn money on shabd.in

  • We offers regulated tokenization and automated marketplace to optimize fundraises and enhance liquidity ​

  • We are a decentralized crypto prediction platform that enables users to participate in binary price predictions with minimal capital. We integrate Automated Market Makers (AMMs) for dynamic liquidity management and ensure fair payouts through advanced mathematical models, creating an open, transparent market for all traders. ​

  • Enable multilateral net settlement for traders. Conduct risk-less, real-time transactions via atomic swaps.

  • Auro Oracle combines: - Integration network of 96 CEX and 124 DeFi protocols - Regulated institutional-grade infrastructure - Deep market expertise serving institutional clients - Established relationships across TradFi and DeFi Our existing OEMS platform and extensive integration network uniquely position us to deliver reliable oracle services bridging traditional and decentralized finance.​

  • Auro Digital’s DEX Aggregator addresses fragmented liquidity by routing transactions across multiple DEXs for optimal pricing and execution. Our intelligent algorithm minimizes slippage and gas fees by finding the best trade paths. By accessing liquidity from both major and emerging DEXs, we ensure faster, smarter, and more efficient swaps. Our platform makes decentralized trading simple and accessible for all users. ​

  • An on-chain central limit order book (CLOB) DEX Offers a CEFI experience with additional transparency and access. Focus on speed, user experience and security Target individuals and regulated institutions Operates as a CEFI-like CLOB. Vanilla European products with expiries, physically and stable coin settled V1: No liquidation risk Fees collected from (taker) trades History of transactions, charts per product, underlying and user Risk and PNL calculation in real time (every change of oracle price feed triggers an updated off-chain greeks calculation, some of it triggering the liquidation process (V2)) ​

Private Portfolio

In addition to our listed company portfolios, we’re always on the hunt for private companies looking to change the world via true innovation. Could be at any stage of their development from helping incubate ideas from passionate founders to supporting mature private companies, where we share the same vision of the future. If you’re looking to raise capital, please complete the following form and someone will be in touch with you shortly: https://forms.gle/KFagLbgwdh5TpHsY6

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  • Fin-Tech
  • CeFi
  • DeFi
  • SaaS
  • Digital
  • Marketplace
  • Cap-Intro
  • Assest Management
  • Crowd Sourcing
  • Ed-Tech
  • Professional Network
  • Robo Advisory
  • Co-Innovation
  • Dev for Equity
  • Health-Tech
  • Computer Vision
  • Sensor
  • Media
  • Ebooks
  • Publishing
  • RWA
  • Tokenization
  • Prediction
  • Clearing and Settlement
  • DEX
  • Trading

Auro Digital

Auro Ims

AI-ML

AURO.EDU

Auro.ai

Ideal Development

Auro Yoga

SHABD.IN

AURO BRIDGE

AURO PREDICTION MARKET

Auro Sui Clear

AURO ORACLE

AURO DEX AGGREGATOR

AURO LIQUID

Auro Group Contact

Location:

HONG KONG:28/F, AIA Central, 1 Connaught Road, Central, Hong Kong


USA:1000 West Avenue, Unit 911, Miami, FL 33139,


DELHI: D41 Paschimi Marg, Vasant Vihar, India 110057

Call:

HK: +852 3196 7000

USA: +1 646 492 9671

INDIA: +91 98181 12427

AIM Team

Highly qualified Investment team bringing together experienced analysts from leading firms along with high caliber data-scientists. Best-in-class institutional service providers including several global bulge bracket banks, regional banks and country specific banks and brokerage houses augment our investment research, management and deal access, and operational capabilities.


Although proudly headquartered in HK ─ the capital city of Asia, we have been fortunate to attract global talent with diverse backgrounds as illustrated in the exhibit below from a cross-sectional analysis of AIM's team inception-to-date. AIM and Auro Group are always on the lookout for highly motivated individuals, from students to experienced professionals, who desire to constantly raise the bar if not re-invent the world we live in. If you feel you fit the bill and share our value-system, we would love to hear from you at recruit@AuroIM.com.

AIM team diversity: cross-sectional analysis of the team inception-to-date

The People Behind AIM

Since inception, AIM has been built by investors, technologists and operators from the world's leading hedge funds, banks, asset managers and universities. Below are the current and former members of our team, together with the directors and advisors who have guided the firm.

Founder & Leadership8

Amar Singh Anand

Amar Singh Anand

Founder, CIO & CEO

Founder

20+ years across public, private, venture and principal investing. Founded AIM in 2017 after serving as a senior member of Tybourne Capital's investment team since its inception. Earlier at McKinsey (New York), Citigroup and Cinven.

MS Stanford GSB · MSc LSE · BA St. Stephen's College

CK Chan

CK Chan

Responsible Officer, Head of Business Development & IR

Leadership

25+ years in investment management. Previously Head of Bosera Asset Management International (a top-5 Chinese fund house) and founder of Jutian Fund Management, now Morgan Stanley Huaxin.

CFA · SFC Type 4 & 9 Responsible Officer

Stephan Bosshart

Stephan Bosshart

Chief Operating Officer

Leadership

18+ years in financial and professional services. Previously Managing Director and Country Head China at GLG, senior roles at Standard Chartered, and Associate Principal at McKinsey.

BA Economics, Harvard University

Mariko Tsuchida

Mariko Tsuchida

Chief Operating Officer

Leadership

COO Asia Pacific at Goldman Sachs Investment Partners (2008-17), across a 13-year Goldman career. Helped raise one of the largest Asia long/short fund launches of 2013-14.

BA, Sophia University, Tokyo

Michael Conn

Head of Strategy & Corporate Development

Leadership

Former COO and Head of Strategy at AllianceBernstein Alternatives ($500bn AUM). Previously MD and Head of Corporate Strategy at TCW / Société Générale.

MBA USC Marshall · ESSEC · Brandeis University

Pavithra Srinivasan

Chief Financial Officer

Leadership

15 years in operations and research; involved in AIM from day zero. Previously lead analyst at S&P Global's Crisil, including 2+ years supporting Amar at Tybourne.

Chartered Accountant · MDBA Symbiosis · BCom Madras University

Jeb J. Altonaga

COO & CFO

Leadership

16+ years in financial services. Previously COO of hedge fund Pinyin, Head of Asia-Pacific for Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services, and led Business Unit Control at Citadel.

BS CSU Los Angeles · Accounting, UCLA

Ash Patel

CFO & COO

Leadership

20 years in prime services and hedge funds: 15 years at Barclays Capital (UK and Singapore), BNP Paribas in Hong Kong, and D.E. Shaw in London.

CIMA · CPA Australia · BSc Mathematics

Investment Team24

Meng Gao

Meng Gao

Partner · Financials

Partner

10+ years of investment and research experience. Former co-CFO of Jumei.com, which she took public on the NYSE.

MBA Stanford GSB · MEng University of Oxford

Jim Bao

Jim Bao

Partner · TMT

Partner

12+ years in investing. Co-managed the US TMT book at Hill House Capital and previously invested at China hedge fund Yiheng Capital.

MBA Harvard · BS Computer Science, Stanford

Terence Khoo

Partner · Consumer, China

Partner

24+ years of investment experience, 15 in hedge funds, including PM roles at Sofaer, Kerry (Kuok family office), Qi Capital and FrontPoint.

PhD Finance, University of North Carolina

Marc Chalfin

Partner · Industrials & Retail, US

Partner

15 years in hedge funds. Director of Research at LionEye, Consumer Sector Head at Tiger cub HealthCor, and Senior Analyst at Brahman and Knott Partners.

BS Cornell University

Sonya Kim

Partner

Partner

Long/short analyst at York Capital Asia (2013-17), with prior experience at MBK Private Equity and Goldman Sachs Investment Banking.

MBA Harvard Business School · BA Seoul University

Hideyasu Ban

Hideyasu Ban

Partner · Financials, Japan

Partner

20+ years in research. Managing Director of equity research at Morgan Stanley MUFG in Japan for 11 years; previously Director at Merrill Lynch Japan.

MBA, The Wharton School

Michelle Ma

Michelle Ma

Partner · SaaS & Internet, US

Partner

Head of Global TMT (Internet Software) at Minmetals Capital. A decade in San Francisco covering US and Chinese cloud, SaaS and internet; earlier at Bloomberg LP and Samsung Securities.

Hardik Doshi

Hardik Doshi

Co-Portfolio Manager · India

Partner

Former PM at Voyager, an India-focused fund with more than $500m in AUM, running a concentrated portfolio with long holding periods.

Himanshu Nazkani

Himanshu Nazkani

Head of Research

Investment

14+ years in investing and technology. PM and Head of India & Private Investments at Kristal; previously at Elevar Equity, Religare Global Asset Management and Unitus; began as a design engineer at Nvidia.

MBA IIM · BTech IIT · CFA

Sameer Taneja

Sameer Taneja

Senior Analyst · Industrials

Investment

11+ years of research experience, including 8 years as a senior analyst at Tiger cub Kelusa Asia Focus.

MBA, Xavier Institute of Management

Karan Parmanandka

Karan Parmanandka

Analyst · TMT, Asia

Investment

13+ years of research. Previously senior analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch covering TMT, with earlier roles at Macquarie and Nomura in India and Europe.

MBA XLRI · Chartered Accountant · BCom Calcutta University

Varun Arora

Varun Arora

Analyst · Industrials, ASEAN & India

Investment

8+ years in research. Previously senior analyst at Karma Capital and at Synergy Fund Management in Hong Kong.

MBA HKU-LBS · BE Delhi College of Engineering

Chinmaya Vadali

Chinmaya Vadali

Analyst · Healthcare

Investment

13+ years across equities, mezzanine and debt. Former PM at a mid-cap investment firm focused on healthcare and pharma; earlier at a global rating agency and GSK.

MBA IIM Ahmedabad · BTech IIT

Kosuke Matsumoto

Analyst · Financials, Japan

Investment

10+ years in equity capital markets. VP in Nomura's ECM division in Hong Kong, with earlier roles at Nomura London and Tokyo and at Lehman Brothers.

BA Economics, Keio University

Ryoichi Hayashi

Ryoichi Hayashi

Analyst · Japan

Investment

10+ years of research. PM at ADIA covering Japan, and previously VP at BlackRock in Hong Kong and an analyst at BlackRock Japan.

MA Syracuse University · BE Keio University

Lisa Feng

Analyst · Consumer & TMT, China

Investment

15+ years of experience. Led ECM China at Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered, then headed business development and IR at a leading China consumer brand. Started at McKinsey New York.

MBA University of Chicago · BS Fudan University

Vineet Thodge

Senior Analyst · Financials

Investment

8+ years of research. Junior PM of an India fund at Mirae Asset; earlier covered Asian financials at Credit Suisse and TMT at Kotak.

BTech, Indian Institute of Technology

Mike Jin

Analyst · TMT, China & North Asia

Investment

Senior Associate at Dodge & Cox ($300bn AUM) covering communications and media; earlier at Goldman Sachs and Marcato Capital.

MBA Harvard · BS UC Berkeley

Jay Kim

Jay Kim

Analyst · Consumer & TMT

Investment

7+ years covering consumer, retail and TMT. Senior Investment Manager at Korea Investment Corporation; earlier in investment banking at J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank.

MBA, The Wharton School

Pulkit Agarwal

Pulkit Agarwal

Analyst · Financials

Investment

Long/short analyst at Soros Fund Management, private-equity analyst at IFC, and equity research at J.P. Morgan.

MBA Columbia · BTech IIT Delhi

Sumeet Bhalla

Sumeet Bhalla

Analyst · Industrials, US & Europe

Investment

Buy-side analyst at Signpost Capital, with earlier experience at Bain & Co. Private Equity and J.P. Morgan.

MBA, Harvard Business School

Hiroyuki Miyake

Analyst · Japan

Investment

Investment experience at Hill House and Kylin, following three years at McKinsey & Company.

MBA, Harvard Business School

Utsav Mitra

Utsav Mitra

Analyst

Investment

Investment roles at Falcon Edge and Emerging Sovereign, after Bain Capital and McKinsey.

MBA, Harvard Business School

Abhijeet Naik

Analyst · India

Investment

14 years of India equity research at CLSA and Kotak.

MBA, IIM Bangalore

Data Science & Technology12

Barsendu Mukherjee

Barsendu Mukherjee

Head of Data Science

Data Science

10+ years in quantitative research, data science and risk management at BlackRock, Caxton and LyonRoss Capital.

BTech IIT · MS UMass Amherst · CFA

Michael Fleder

Michael Fleder

Data Scientist · Big Data

Data Science

MIT PhD researcher in algorithmic trading and machine learning. Co-founded algorithmic-trading platform Causality Technologies; earlier a robotics software developer at NASA.

PhD, MEng & BS Computer Science, MIT

Prashant Pal

Prashant Pal

Data Scientist & Technology

Data Science

Co-founder and CTO of Pickingo; founding team of data-science firm InvelocityLabs, acquired by Vy Capital.

BTech Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi

Satyen Pandita

Satyen Pandita

Data Scientist · Risk Analytics

Data Science

Data science across telematics, natural language processing and risk analytics at Accenture.

MTech & BTech Mathematics and Computing, IIT

Vaibhav Kumar

Data Scientist

Data Science

7+ years in data science; doctoral research on hybrid deep-learning models for predictive analytics.

Keshav Gaddhyan

Keshav Gaddhyan

Head of Data Science

Data Science

Software and fintech specialist who helped lead development of the Auro.AI robo-advisor app. Previously a developer at Bio-analyzer and Quokka.

BE Computer Science, HKU

Shourya Mehra

Shourya Mehra

Technology Analyst & Data Scientist

Data Science

Previously an engineer at ON Semiconductor and an R&D intern at Siemens.

BE Computer Science, HKU

Varun Singh

Varun Singh

Analyst · Crypto & Blockchain

Data Science

Investment and data-science analyst; previously at Arrano Capital, an SFC-regulated crypto fund in Hong Kong.

BE Computer Science, HKU

Maximilian Printz

Maximilian Printz

Analyst · Japan & US

Data Science

Built a Python screen for undervalued companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange; fundamental research on renewable-energy equities.

BEng & BBA, HKUST

Max Yip

Max Yip

Analyst · Financials & Technology

Data Science

Asset management and corporate investment experience at Penjing Asset Management and fintech leader Lexin.

BBA, City University of Hong Kong · CFA Level I

Anubhav Joshi

Anubhav Joshi

Analyst

Data Science

Accounting and finance background with internships at Deloitte India in capital markets and compliance.

Accounting & Finance, HKU

Abhinav Sintoo

Abhinav Sintoo

App Developer & ML Engineer

Data Science

Flutter app developer; previously a machine-learning engineer at Neva Ventures.

BE Computer Science, BIT Mesra

Trading & Operations9

Daniel Hui

Head of Trading · Responsible Officer

Trading

Head of Trading at Ward Ferry Asset Management (2006-16), running execution and broker relations across Asia-Pacific, the US and Europe.

BCom University of Sydney · MCom UNSW

David Wills

David Wills

Partner · Trading, Responsible Officer

Partner

Managing Director, Responsible Officer and Head of Asia Trading at Och-Ziff Capital Management in Hong Kong (2007-16).

BCom University of Sydney

Gaurav Gupta

Gaurav Gupta

Financial Resource Management & Trading

Trading

Equity financing trader at Deutsche Bank, funding the Delta One and Prime Brokerage businesses; previously a credit analyst at J.P. Morgan.

MBA IIM Kozhikode · FRM · BE Panjab University

Pulkit Bansal

Pulkit Bansal

Head of Operations · Risk & Trading

Operations

10 years in fund administration, trading and security processing; team leader at SS&C Technologies and previously at Citi.

Chloe Young

Head of Operations

Operations

10 years in operations and audit, running operations at two Asian hedge funds after 6 years at a Big 4 firm.

BBA Accounting, HKUST · CPA

Wing Wong

Head of Operations

Operations

Head of Operations at Eaton Park Asia, with earlier roles at Old Peak, LIM and Asia Research; began at Goldman Sachs.

MSc Finance, Cass · BSc Computer Science, Warwick

Nilesh Jain

Nilesh Jain

Operations Manager

Operations

10 years in banking: quantitative analyst at Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered, and business analyst at Accenture.

MSc EDHEC · BTech IIT Madras

Sheetal Bahl

Office Manager

Operations

Background in training, recruitment and education.

MBA Finance, FORE School · BA Delhi University

Mahima Suri

Office Manager

Operations

Background in education and audit.

BEd MD University · BCom Delhi University

Board & Advisors5

Tracie Ahern

Tracie Ahern

Fund Independent Director

Board

On AIM's fund board since inception. CFO of PineBridge Investments from 2019; previously CFO of Soros Fund Management (2007-15).

MBA NYU Stern · BS Manhattan College · CPA

Ray W. Jovanovich

Fund Independent Director

Board

Former CIO Asia at Amundi, with 25 years managing Asian portfolios. Pioneered the first single-country funds for Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and India; Barron's International Fund Manager of the Year 1993.

Wabash College

Charles M. C. Lee

Charles M. C. Lee

Board of Advisors

Advisor

Moghadam Family Professor at Stanford GSB. Former Global Head of Equity Research at Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock) and co-founder of Nipun Capital.

PhD & MBA, Cornell University

Matt Pecot

Matt Pecot

Board of Advisors

Advisor

Head of Prime Services Asia-Pacific at Credit Suisse (2009-17), then Head of Equities & Markets Asia-Pacific at Barclays. Earlier led prime brokerage at UBS.

US Air Force Institute of Technology

Stephen Ho

Board of Advisors

Advisor

25+ years in investing. Portfolio Manager and member of the Global Investment Committee at Hansberger Global Investors for 15 years; previously PM at AIG Investments Asia.

MBA Columbia · BA University of Pennsylvania

Includes AIM team members since inception in the capacity of employees, dedicated consultants, interns and pilots, and advisory or formal board members. Titles and backgrounds reflect each person's role and experience while associated with AIM.

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