Avantyr Capital, founded by former Viking Global CIO Ning Jin, submitted its first ADV regulatory filing and lists 19 employees, including 10 investment staff. The firm is headquartered at 450 Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The manager intends to concentrate on technology, media, telecoms, consumer, financials, and industrials. The prelaunch investment roster includes hires from L2 Capital, Tybourne, Maven, Coatue, Matrix Capital, Blackstone, and KKR. The early team also features former Viking analyst Alex Mendez and ex-Tourbillon executive Sunjay Mishra, alongside operational hires such as head trader Niraj Bhatt, investor relations head Lauren Lyons, COO Kelly Skura, and general counsel Vanessa Di Simone.
The roster of the former Viking Global CIO's new fund, Avantyr Capital, is taking shape. The firm filed its first ADV, a regulatory filing required of all hedge funds, this week. While it didn't state its assets under management, the regulatory filing claims to have 19 people working at the closely watched launch, 10 of whom are investment staff. The manager, which lists its headquarters in midtown Manhattan at 450 Park Avenue, has brought on investors from Coatue, KKR, Blackstone, and more before launch.
Terrence Cheng, formerly at L2 Capital and Tybourne Capital in Hong Kong, who, according to Bloomberg, will lead industrials research Adam Marcus, a onetime investor at Maven and Jason Karp's Tourbillon Capital, who will be leading financials, according to Bloomberg Lea Zhang, who invested in American and Chinese tech and consumer companies at Coatue Christopher Parks, who was an analyst at now-shuttered Tiger Cub Matrix Capital
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