Optica

Optica is invitation-only, an AI-native equity fund that decides who gets to put money in rather than the reverse. Co-founded by Aravind Mavila, Austin Watkins, Adarsh Nair, and Sandeep Kini, it applies machine-learning methods to systematic equity strategies.

Founded in Seattle in 2024, the firm keeps a deliberately thin public profile. It is early and opaque by choice, with little disclosed beyond the founding team and its AI-first approach to building signals.