About Stride

Stride is a global asset manager with investment strategies across private markets, operating across India, the GCC, UK & Europe, and SEA.

Vision

Stride’s  platform infrastructure supports investment managers across the full lifecycle of a private markets strategy
Shaped by the Ecosystem
Scaling Companies Across Borders
Capital That Adapts Across Stages
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Shaped by the Ecosystem
Years in the global startup ecosystem gave us a strong understanding of company growth. Guided by a founder-first & investor-prudent approach, we apply disciplined underwriting and decision-making to provide clarity alongside capital.
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Scaling Companies Across Borders
With India as a core base and presence across the GCC, UK & Europe, and SEA, we support companies expanding across markets.
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Capital That Adapts Across Stages
We offer strategies across Credit and Equity to address evolving capital needs, enabling investors to participate across the company lifecycle.

Founder's vision

“Private markets are, at their core, a people business. The returns we deliver are only as strong as the trust we earn; from our investors, from the founders we back, and from the people we have built this institution with. We have always believed that an entrepreneurial culture, one that rewards ownership and curiosity, is not something you build internally and leave at the door when you enter a boardroom. It travels with you into every portfolio company, every partnership, every decision. It is this belief that compels us to show up as genuine partners to the founders we back, and as disciplined stewards of the capital our investors entrust to us. That is the standard we hold ourselves to at Stride.”
Ishpreet Singh Gandhi
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Global Presence

Across Borders.
Across Asset Classes.
Forward.

India
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
United Kingdom (UK)
Europe
Southeast Asia (SEA)

Our Approach for Investors

Providing institutional access to diversified private market strategies, delivered through disciplined execution and aligned capital.
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Curated Opportunity Access
Access to institutionally structured private market opportunities across geographies, sourced through disciplined origination and selective deployment.
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Diversification Across Strategies
Ability to allocate across multiple private market strategies, enabling portfolio construction across stages, sectors, and capital structures.
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Institutional Investment Discipline
A consistent approach to underwriting, risk management, and portfolio construction designed to deliver disciplined outcomes across cycles.
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Trusted by Leading Global Investors
Partnering with a diverse base of investors including family offices, HNIs and UHNIs, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, pension funds, insurance companies, banks, and financial institutions, reflecting institutional trust and long-term alignment.

Values that
Guide the Platform

Integrity and discipline at every level of capital, guiding every partnership, decision, and outcome we pursue.
Stewardship
Stewardship
We act as if the capital, the reputation, and the relationships are our own. Because they are. Institutions are built on trust. Every decision we make either compounds or erodes it.
Together We Compound
Together We Compound
Our edge is not individual brilliance. It is what happens when every vertical, geography, and person amplifies every other. Private markets reward networks. We are building one, inside the firm first.
Relentless Drive
Relentless Drive
The best investors are the most informed. The most informed show up every single day. We do not stop when it is hard. We stop when it is solved. No market rewards the timid. Obsession is our moat.
Innovation
Innovation
We do not take the market norm as given. We design every element of a transaction from first principles, until it works. Structures the market had not built, we built them.
Delivering Excellence
Delivering Excellence
In private markets, reputation is the product. Everything that leaves this firm carries our name. We do not send work we are not proud of. LPs talk. Borrowers talk. We are judged in every single interaction.
Expansive Partnerships
Expansive Partnerships
Every LP, borrower, and co-investor is a long-term relationship, not a transaction. The ambition is a network that self-reinforces across three continents. Capital follows trust. Trust follows relationships. We build the kind that compound.