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How I Built a 1.4-Billion-Dollar Quant Fund - Deepak Gurnani on Founding Versor Investments

15 Jan 2026

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In November 2025, I hosted a fireside chat at Columbia University with Deepak Gurnani, founder of Versor Investments, a $1.4 billion quantitative hedge fund based in New York with offices in New York and Mumbai. Deepak spent two decades at Investcorp, where he built and led the firm’s hedge fund division. In 2013, he stepped away to found Versor with a singular goal: to build a research-driven quantitative firm focused on leveraging alternative data. This conversation is a continuation of the story we began on Odds on Open with Nishant Gurnani and DeWayne Louis, two of Versor’s partners. In that episode, we explored the systematic strategies that Versor runs. In this fireside chat, we go upstream to understand how it all began.We talk about:- Deepak’s journey from IIT to Citigroup to Investcorp- How the hedge fund industry looked in the 1990s versus today- What it really takes to spin out and build a quant firm from scratch- Why Versor adopted cloud computing and alternative data years before most peers- How small firms compete with giants like Citadel, Millennium, and Jane Street- What Deepak looks for when hiring researchers- Why “value proposition” is the starting point for any new fund- The mindset required to build something that lasts

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How I Built a 1.4-Billion-Dollar Quant Fund - Deepak Gurnani on Founding Versor Investments

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13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

2ª PARTE | 06 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 22 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 04 MAR 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

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