The Modern
Alternative Investing Experience
Aqua empowers financial advisors to invest beyond conventional asset classes and access opportunities traditionally only available to large institutions and ultra-high net worth investors.
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Aqua Product Offerings
Our products are designed to facilitate frictionless investment into private markets opportunities.
Access Funds
An end-to-end platform that manages all aspects of operational work required to facilitate an investment into a private fund or private company, eliminating any lift from the advisor.
Aqua Connect
Connecting advisors to a curated selection of top quartile private equity, private credit, real estate and venture capital funds from our GP partners.
Feeder Funds
A no-lift-to-GP solution that serves as a high-net-worth aggregator, unlocking a new class of potential LPs for funds without the additional operational workload.
Alternative Assets
An alternative investment is a financial asset that doesn’t fall into conventional asset categories, like stocks, bonds and cash. Alternative assets include private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate and collectibles.
Your clients are likely underexposed to alternative investments such as Private Equity. Professional investors allocate ~50% of their assets to alternatives yet the average individual only has ~5% exposure.
Alternative investments provide the risk-adjusted return most portfolios are missing. Take a look at Private Equity funds - they consistently outperform the public markets, with the top performing private equity funds vastly outperforming public equities.
Six stocks now account for 30% of the S&P 500’s returns. Investing exclusively in public markets creates a lot of concentration in your portfolio. Given the vast majority of US companies are privately held, alternative investments allow investors to hedge their risk against market downturns by reducing correlation and truly diversifying their portfolio.
Aqua For Advisors
We combine white-glove service with high-tech automation to provide a frictionless experience for your team and your clients to access a wide range of alternative investments. Our lowered minimums enable you to diversify any client portfolio into a traditionally inaccessible asset class.
Experience
Aqua's digital platform was built to deliver an unmatched client experience. In addition to our technology, working with Aqua provides access to our team of like-minded individuals from world-class organizations across the financial services landscape including private equity, capital markets, custody, and financial technology.
Customization
RIAs are given a versatile experience allowing for a wide variety of integrations including white-labeling or co-branding. Aqua also enables curation of investments for your clients from an inventory of exclusive top-quartile funds and will assist in gaining access to specific funds at request.
Comprehensive
We support you and your clients from subscription through the lifecycle of an alternative investment. This includes detailed fund due diligence, simplified and condensed reporting on investment performance and and a fee structure that mirrors how advisors commonly bill their clients.
Investing Made Simple
Our end-to-end digital experience materially simplifies investing in alternatives at industry low minimums and fees.
Aqua for Fund Managers
We create feeder funds that reduce the headache of aggregating smaller ticket sizes from strategic pools of capital such as wealth management channels, friends & family and strategic operating partners.
Aqua's digital solution simplifies every aspect of the alternative investment lifecycle.
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Leadership Team
A combination of private equity and technology backgrounds
When Rohan worked at Blackstone, he noticed that alternative asset managers were always in high demand, but were only accessible by large institutions or ultra high-net-worth individuals.
Rohan wanted to drastically expand access to these investment opportunities, so he teamed up with an ambitious technologist, Dev. Together, they are proudly revolutionizing access to alternative assets.
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Rohan Marwaha
Previously worked at Blackstone. Vanderbilt Commodore. NY Red Bulls fan and semi-mediocre golfer.
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Dev Patel
Previously worked at Bank of America. Vanderbilt Commodore. Patriots fan and mediocre golfer.
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Teddy Freedman
Previously worked at Siris Capital and Guggenheim Partners. FC Barcelona & Manchester City fan, great golfer.
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Donald Hession
Ex-backend engineering lead for Betterfin (YC S17, acquired by Cross River Bank). Enjoys chess, boxing and meditation.
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