Institute

Meditating on finance.

A center for studying venture capital, global macro, and, more generally, finance.

The brick ruins of the Sariputta Stupa at Nalanda, tinted in brick red
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Venture capital

How new companies are formed, funded, and grown, and how the investors behind them decide.

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Global macro

Rates, currencies, credit, and commodities, and the policy and history that move them.

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Finance

The wider discipline: markets, valuation, risk, and the institutions that allocate capital.

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InvestorsGeneral partners and partners at venture funds, from seed to growth.
FoundersBacked by some of the most sought-after investors in technology.
OperatorsEarly employees at frontier AI, data, and defense companies, and alumni of quant and macro funds.