AI-driven quantitative hedge fund and family office managing diversified global assets
Karanwal Capital is a quantitative investment firm founded in 2023, managing a $25M+ portfolio across public markets, private equity, real estate, and venture. The stack—Python, R, KDB+, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, C++, plus low-latency protocols (FIX, TCP/UDP)—reflects a systematic trading operation; active pain points around real-time tick ingestion, sub-millisecond execution, and fast backtesting reveal an engineering team optimizing for speed and precision in algorithmic trading. The 3-engineer, 2-finance hiring mix suggests infrastructure is the current constraint.
Karanwal Capital operates as a high-performance family office and quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Houston. The firm manages a diversified portfolio across four mandates: systematic strategies in public equities, fixed income, and currencies; private equity and real estate; venture-stage technology investments; and ESG-integrated mandates. Investment decisions are powered by proprietary AI and machine learning models built in Python and R, combined with alternative data and real-time market sentiment analysis to reduce emotional bias and optimize risk-adjusted returns. The firm was founded in 2023 by CEO Bhanu Karanwal.
Python, R, C++, SQL, Rust, Pandas, NumPy, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, KDB+, plus FIX and low-latency transport protocols (TCP/UDP) for trading infrastructure. Operational tools include Excel, Interactive Brokers, Tally, and Zoho Books.
Core projects include data infrastructure, real-time tick data pipelines, automated trading strategy development, low-latency execution algorithms, backtesting engines, proprietary trading dashboards, and tax/compliance systems for derivatives trading.
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