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About Alpha Capture
Alpha capture starts with human insight. We see potential beyond the ideas entered by hand.
From manually entered ideas to the thinking already expressed in research and conversations, we’re building AlphaCapture to turn investment language into structured ideas—and open up more opportunities to investigate.
Alpha Capture is operated by Harkster Limited, a London-based team.
Where it beganThe private product is being designed. It is not a released investment system or a provider of investment advice.
01 / Where it began
The Harkster Kernel was built to turn institutional research from email, files and APIs into structured, indexed data with its provenance intact.
That foundation opened up a bigger question: what investment thinking could be captured from the language itself?
Alpha Capture was born from the Harkster Kernel to pursue that question. It is being designed to make the thesis, its investment expression and its supporting reasoning explicit, while preserving the source.
The foundation / Harkster Kernel
Organise the source.
Keep its provenance.
The next chapter / Alpha Capture
Surface the thesis.
Give the thinking structure.
02 / The perspective we bring
The team brings well over 25 years of experience across hedge funds, banks, and asset managers. That background shapes the questions we ask, the workflows we design for and the boundaries we respect.
A possible opportunity still needs a thesis, an expression and a reason for conviction. We’re designing AlphaCapture around the judgement that turns an idea into an investment view.
Discover the insight.
Develop the opportunity.
Keeping an idea connected to its source lets an investor challenge the interpretation, revisit the thesis and learn from the outcome.
Experience is not evidence of investment performance. AlphaCapture does not recommend investments, allocate capital, execute trades or replace an organisation’s compliance, risk or information-handling controls.
Head of Technology
Matt has worked at several leading hedge funds, a commodity house and an investment bank, leading the design of critical systems for global business operations, traders, portfolio managers and risk managers.
He has experience managing a global team of over 100 staff across 31 offices in 18 countries, with an annual IT budget of more than US$25 million.
Partner, Head of Business Development & Market Intelligence
Across a 17-year career, Darren has worked at leading FX investment banks as a market-maker and risk taker, as well as spending five years at Stone Milliner Asset Management.
He has implemented a diverse set of trading styles across multiple asset classes within discretionary macro investing.
03 / The company behind it
Harkster Limited is a company registered in England and Wales. The Alpha Capture team is based in London, UK; the company’s registered office is in Exeter.
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