Lightning Capital Digital asset management

Lightning Capital is a multi-fund digital asset manager specializing in data, AI, and blockchain investments, with a focus on wealth creation and preservation for US and global investors, including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutions. With over 60 years of combined expertise and a 5-year audited track record, Lightning Capital offers deep domain knowledge in trading technology and blockchain. Our investors are focused on a defensive approach to wealth preservation that includes dynamic exposure to digital assets, which we provide through our suite of products.

Our flagship products include the Lightning Venture Fund, which invests directly in early and growth-stage innovators and the SAYF Liquid Fund, a systematic arbitrage and yield vehicle,  designed to optimize risk-adjusted returns while minimizing downside. Recently, we launched the Lightning Unicorn Fund, leveraging an exclusive license with the Prime Unicorn Index™ to provide direct access to late-stage, venture-backed unicorns via secondary markets. This diversified platform, underpinned by sophisticated data analytics, proprietary valuation models and strategic partnerships like Caplight, positions Lightning Capital to consistently pursue top-decile performance among global hedge funds.

The General Partners spent the last two decades scaling companies, innovating cutting edge technology across data and capital markets, giving back to the next generation by teaching, and building an incredible network for the crypto ecosystem.  The Partners all met as members of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) over a decade ago.

The combined expertise in technology, capital markets and investing in digital assets uniquely qualified them to launch Lightning Capital with four investment strategies spanning the risk-reward spectrum of exposure to digital assets.  

Since the public launch of the first fund in January 2020, the General Partners have outperformed and have built a foundation of trust with audited financials, fund administration, regulatory compliance and relationships.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Trust

When we launched in 2020 we built a foundation of trust that included trusted partners to; ensure Audited Financials (Marcum LLC), abide by strict Regulatory Governance (Cole-Frieman & Mallon) and Accurate and Timely external Fund Administration (NAV Fund Administration). Trust is integral to everything we do.

Due diligence

The General Partners engage in rigorous due diligence on every investment. We have avoided any exchanges that don’t pass our due diligence process and continue to be vigilant in our conservative approach.

Community

We are active participants in building a valuable community across Developers, Capital Markets, Venture Capital and YPO . By giving as much as we can to this network, we are engaged with communities that are soundly creating the future of the digital economy

Innovation

We invest in the areas of blockchain technology and infrastructure that continues to disrupt including; Energy Innovation for Proof of Work Mining, Immutability of distributed ledger technology (DLT), Control of Data (encryption, ownership, immutability), and development and conversion from Web2 to Web3.

OUR TEAM

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Jason Albanese

Chief Executive Officer

Co-founder & CEO, Centric Digital Co-founder & CEO, Sage Secure Chapter Chair, YPO Manhattan BA Economics, Union College
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Jock Percy PhD

Chief Financial Officer

Founder, Perseus, Co-Founder & CTO, FX Ecosystem VP Sharp Corp, BT, Acecomm PhD Economics, Canterbury, UCL
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Jori Kretzers

Chief Investment Officer

15+ Year Career at Leading Global Quantitative Trading FirmsProven track record in researching, implementing, and optimizing investment strategies across multiple asset classesManaged +$2B portfolios driving superior risk-adjusted returns.
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Amy Coveny

Head of Investor Relations

Managing Partner Quake CapitalGlobal Head of Audio, MGNI (Nasdaq)Sr. Director, Rubicon Project

OUR ADVISORS

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Tim Ryan

Fmr Congressman of Ohio

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Greg Schultz

Political Strategist

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Dan Donovan

Fmr. Congressman of NY

OUR PARTNERS

Cole-Frieman & Mallon

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NAV Consulting

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MARCUM LLP

Lightning Capital is a digital asset investment firm applying proprietary datasets and research, predictive analytics, professional trading and portfolio management to provide value for our investors in lower risk approach to this digital asset class.

Our investment philosophy is to use our methodology and technology to capitalize on the volatile nature of this asset class and the short-medium term inefficiencies in the marketplace, especially in select digital assets beyond bitcoin.