Commercial · Residential · Studio · Land
Real Estate
Hard assets held for durable yield and long-term appreciation — the ballast that steadies the portfolio, not the whole of it.
A Private Family Office · India & Global
Patient capital, built by operators, backing what comes next.
We compound our own family capital across real estate, the global markets, and the founders building AI and finance — and return a measure of it to society.
India · Global — investing across cyclesReal estate · Public markets · AI & finance
The Office
AKM Capital Partners is a single-family office that invests like an operator, not a fund. There are no outside limited partners, no fund clock, and no committee between conviction and action — decisions are made quickly by the people who carry the risk, and judgment is the edge.
Growth and giving back are the two halves of why we exist — one feeds the other.
Investment Philosophy
Six principles that govern every dollar we deploy.
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Conviction over activity
We would rather make a handful of decisions we deeply understand than a hundred we don't. Doing nothing is a position.
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A multi-currency balance sheet
Capital held and deployed across currencies and geographies — resilience built in, not bolted on after the fact.
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Hard assets as ballast
Real estate and tangible holdings anchor the portfolio, steadying it through cycles and underwriting the risk we take elsewhere.
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Technology, sized with discipline
We back frontier companies with genuine enthusiasm — and with position sizes that respect how early and uncertain they are.
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A clean balance sheet, kept ready
Dry powder is a strategy. We stay unlevered and liquid enough to move decisively when dislocations create the best entries.
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Capital that serves more than itself
Philanthropy is part of the mandate, not a postscript. A measure of every return is committed to work beyond the balance sheet.
The Portfolio
Four pillars, one discipline.
Hard assets, the global public markets, and the founders building AI and finance — held and backed with the same operator's discipline, each in proportion, not by default.
Public Markets
Global Markets
We trade the world's public markets directly, using machine-learning models of our own design — liquidity and compounding alongside the hard assets.
Pre-seed → Series A
AI & Technology
We back technical founders building applied AI at the earliest stages — with capital that has shipped production AI itself.
Builders & Rails
Finance & Fintech
Founders reinventing the rails of capital — payments, markets, and the infrastructure around them.
The Operator Advantage
Money is common. Understanding is not.
Public markets · ML-driven
Most capital arrives without context. Ours arrives with a point of view — because the person deploying it has built and operated in the things we invest in.
Aviral Mathur is a strategist, an AI builder, and an active investor in one. He began his career at Boston Consulting Group, then went on to architect large-scale AI systems in production — not slideware, but software that runs. Today he invests in and trades the public markets using machine learning of his own design.
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Strategy foundation
Boston Consulting Group
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Large-scale AI systems
Built & shipped in production
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AI in the public markets
Active, machine-learning-driven
Why Partner With Us
What it means to take our capital.
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Patient by design
No fund life to wind down. We can hold for a decade or hold forever — whatever the asset deserves.
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Fast, principal-led decisions
You speak to the people who decide. A clear yes or no, quickly, with no committee theatre in between.
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Operator value-add
Beyond capital: strategy, AI engineering, and market judgment from people who have done the work.
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Aligned for the long term
It is our own money. Our incentives are exactly what they appear to be — durable outcomes, not fees.
What We Back
Four kinds of people we want to hear from.
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Early-stage AI founders
Technical teams at pre-seed through Series A, building applied AI with a real and defensible edge.
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Finance & fintech builders
Founders reinventing the rails of capital — payments, markets, infrastructure, and the tools around them.
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Real-estate principals & sponsors
Operators with proven local conviction and quality assets, seeking a long-term, low-drama capital partner.
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Aligned co-investors
Families and principals who think in decades and want to build alongside us on shared conviction.
Principals
The family behind the balance sheet.
Aviral Mathur
Founder · Chief Investment Officer · AI Practitioner
Aviral sets the firm's strategy and leads its investing. A former Boston Consulting Group strategist turned AI builder, he architects large-scale AI systems and invests in and trades the public markets using machine learning of his own design — bringing an operator's understanding to every position the office takes.
Kanika Mathur
Co-Principal · Stewardship & Philanthropy
Kanika stewards the office's longer arc and leads its philanthropy. With a background in textile manufacturing and merchandising, she brings an operator's eye for craft, quality, and people — and ensures that a measure of every return does work beyond the balance sheet.
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