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About Bern Capital Venture

Independent thinking.
Long-term conviction.

Founded in Mauritius in 2020, Bern Capital Venture has built a firm structured around one core principle: independent research, held with patience, outperforms consensus over time.

Ashish Kumar - Founder and Chief Strategic Operations
Founder & Leadership
Ashish Kumar

Founder and Chief Strategic Operations

Who We Are • Leadership

An independent manager, structured for the long term.

Founded by Ashish Kumar, Bern Capital Venture was built around one core principle: independent research, held with patience, outperforms consensus over time.

As Founder and Chief Strategic Operations, Ashish directs the firm's global operational architecture, strategy expansion, and institutional partner allocations across international financial corridors.

"We remain deliberately independent so that our research and operations answer only to our clients' long-term investment conviction."

— Ashish Kumar, Founder and Chief Strategic Operations
Our Philosophy

Conviction, earned through research.

We treat every position as a claim on a real business, sized by how thoroughly the thesis has been tested — not by benchmark weight, sector fashion, or short-term sentiment. That discipline is the one constant across every strategy we run.

Our History (2020 - 2026)

Six years of independent growth and discipline.

Scroll to follow Bern Capital Venture's journey — from our founding mandate in 2020 through portfolio expansion to seven global specialist strategies today.

2020

Founded in Mauritius

Bern Capital Venture opens with a single global equities mandate and a founding thesis: independent research, held with patience, outperforms consensus over time.

2021

Global Expansion & Strategy Launch

Expansion into dedicated Asia Opportunities and European Fund mandates, establishing direct research coverage across major international markets.

2022

Market Volatility & Conviction

Navigating global interest rate shifts with disciplined bottom-up analysis, proving the value of concentrated, high-conviction position sizing.

2023

Governance-Led Japan Strategy

Introduction of the Japan Fund strategy, focusing on companies undergoing verifiable corporate governance reform and capital efficiency gains.

2024

Technology & Innovation Integration

Expansion into Technology & Innovation and Global Brands strategies, capturing long-term structural tailwinds across global digital ecosystems.

2025

Institutional Partnerships & Milestone

Rapid growth in institutional and wealth management partnerships across North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.

2026

Seven Specialist Strategies

Bern Capital Venture now operates seven specialist strategies from research offices across three continents, unified by a single independent research discipline.

2020

Founded in Mauritius

Bern Capital Venture opens with a single global equities mandate and a founding thesis: independent research, held with patience, outperforms consensus over time.

2021

Global Expansion & Strategy Launch

Expansion into dedicated Asia Opportunities and European Fund mandates, establishing direct research coverage across major international markets.

2022

Market Volatility & Conviction

Navigating global interest rate shifts with disciplined bottom-up analysis, proving the value of concentrated, high-conviction position sizing.

2023

Governance-Led Japan Strategy

Introduction of the Japan Fund strategy, focusing on companies undergoing verifiable corporate governance reform and capital efficiency gains.

2024

Technology & Innovation Integration

Expansion into Technology & Innovation and Global Brands strategies, capturing long-term structural tailwinds across global digital ecosystems.

2025

Institutional Partnerships & Milestone

Rapid growth in institutional and wealth management partnerships across North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.

2026

Seven Specialist Strategies

Bern Capital Venture now operates seven specialist strategies from research offices across three continents, unified by a single independent research discipline.

Investment Team

The people behind the research.

Portfolio managers, researchers and specialists across our global strategies — each directly accountable for the conviction behind their fund.

Ashish Kumar
Ashish Kumar

Founder and Chief Strategic Operations

Elena Marchetti
Elena Marchetti

Portfolio Manager, Global & European Equities

Ravi Chandrasekaran
Ravi Chandrasekaran

Portfolio Manager, Asia Opportunities

Haruto Sato
Haruto Sato

Portfolio Manager, Japan Fund

Julia Fenwick
Julia Fenwick

Portfolio Manager, Global Brands

Group Structure

A single, independent entity.

Bern Capital Venture is the responsible entity and investment manager for every strategy on this site, operating from its Sydney headquarters with regional research offices supporting each mandate. Full legal, regulatory and governance disclosures are available in each strategy's Product Disclosure Statement.

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