Key Takeaways
- • Amitis Capital has completed the integration of Samara Alpha, absorbing its team, products, and operational infrastructure to expand its institutional digital asset platform capabilities.
- • Samara Alpha, founded in January 2023 and based in the US, brings a nearly three-year track record with market-neutral and BTC-denominated fund-of-funds strategies that have consistently ranked in BarclayHedge's Top Ten Multi-Advisor Funds.
- • Samara Alpha's founding team previously pioneered tokenised private equity at Securitize Capital alongside KKR, now bringing this expertise into Amitis Capital's multi-manager framework.
- • Amitis Capital operates ACDAM, its flagship digital asset multi-manager fund, providing diversified exposure across liquid directional, market-neutral, and venture strategies to institutional allocators.
- • Monica Monajem, Founder and CEO of Amitis Capital, frames the integration as a step toward building "for digital assets what Blackstone, KKR and Apollo built in private markets" — a scaled platform for institutional capital deployment at scale.
Summary
Samara Alpha was founded in January 2023 and has built a differentiated track record in market-neutral and Bitcoin-denominated fund-of-funds strategies. The firm's performance metrics have proven competitive within the institutional digital assets space: its strategies have consistently ranked within BarclayHedge's Top Ten Multi-Advisor Funds and are currently shortlisted for Hedgeweek's Fund of Funds of the Year 2026 award, with winners to be announced in June 2026. The acquisition brings approximately three years of operational history and documented strategy performance into Amitis Capital's platform.
The Samara Alpha founding team carries significant institutional pedigree, having previously pioneered tokenised private equity offerings at Securitize Capital in collaboration with KKR. This expertise in tokenisation and institutional-grade digital asset structuring now integrates into Amitis Capital's broader multi-manager framework, which includes ACDAM, the flagship digital asset fund providing diversified exposure across liquid directional, market-neutral, and venture strategies.
Amitis Capital's strategic objective, articulated by Founder and CEO Monica Monajem, is to construct an institutional-grade allocation platform comparable to the scaled infrastructure built by Blackstone, KKR, and Apollo in private markets. The Samara Alpha integration represents a significant milestone in that longer-term vision, combining proven fund-of-funds management capabilities with Amitis Capital's multi-manager platform infrastructure to provide sophisticated capital access to digital assets at institutional scale.
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