About Company
ARCA Alternatives IM LLP
ARCA Alternatives IM LLP operates as the authorized alternative asset organizer, investment manager, and research framework driving the deployment pipelines of the ARCA investment trusts. Based out of Bengaluru, the investment management firm combines extensive institutional real estate wealth expertise, private equity advisory lines, and deep engineering background capabilities. The partnership specializes in building institutional-grade platforms focused on transparency, rigid internal corporate governance controls, and comprehensive due diligence to offer highly resilient, downside-protected alternative products.
Fund Snapshot
| Parameter | Details |
| Fund Name | ARCA Alternatives Investment Trust |
| Fund Category | Category II Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) |
| SEBI Registration Number | IN/AIF2/24-25/1600 |
| Investment Manager | ARCA Alternatives IM LLP |
| Primary Structural Strategy | Yielding Real Assets (Managed Living, Digital Infrastructure) |
| Minimum Investment | ₹1 Crore (Standard SEBI Regulatory Minimum) |
| Registered Corporate Address | 12th Floor, C Wing, Mittal Tower, 47 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bangalore, Karnataka - 560001 |
Fund Purpose
The ARCA Alternatives Investment Trust is established as a specialized Category II Alternative Investment Fund engineered to capture long-term, structural opportunities within real assets and specialized real estate. Moving away from highly volatile traditional blind-pool models, the trust aims to simplify alternative investing for institutional players, ultra-HNIs, and family offices. It aggregates private capital to secure operational, high-yielding real assets and technology-driven infrastructure that run parallel to India's secular tailwinds in domestic consumption and structural formalization.
Fund Philosophy
Stabilized Yield & Asset-Backing
The investment mandate focuses squarely on operating or late-stage real assets that deliver visible cash flows. The strategy combines predictable annual yielding frameworks with long-term capital appreciation to outpace systemic inflation.
Rigorous Margin of Safety
Underwriting guidelines enforce conservative valuation parameters and deep data modeling. The fund actively isolates positions carrying a measurable margin of safety, deliberately avoiding speculative developments or high-risk execution sectors outside its core competence.
Active Underlying Control
The asset management thesis prefers transaction structures where the investment vehicle maintains substantial operational or structural control. This proactive governance allows the team to enforce asset-level efficiencies and protect downward exit pathways.
Target Real Asset Platforms
The capital deployment architecture focuses on high-conviction thematic verticals, specifically targeting the managed living stay ecosystem (student housing, co-living, serviced apartments) and essential digital infrastructure tracks.
Focus on Impeccable Counterparties
The trust minimizes execution liabilities by partnering exclusively with high-quality domain operators, established developers, and counterparties with impeccable institutional track records to guarantee consistent operational delivery.
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Shailesh Viswanathan
Mr. Shailesh Viswanathan is a seasoned alternative assets professional and financial strategist who directs the macro asset deployment, portfolio underwriting, and risk mitigation models at ARCA Alternatives IM LLP. Bringing comprehensive experience in real asset management, structural investment design, and private placement architecture to the firm, he directly steers the platform’s research pipelines and conservative financial underwriting frameworks to deliver predictable, risk-balanced long-term returns for the trust's stakeholders.
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The fund is structured as a legally registered Category II Alternative Investment Fund under the Securities and Exchange Board of India with the formal registration code IN/AIF2/24-25/1600.
The asset pipeline is primarily organized around two flagship sub-strategies: Eraya (focusing on the managed living and transient-stay real estate ecosystem) and Yantra (focusing on digital assets and modern cloud infrastructure).
The architectural platform was co-founded by industry leaders including Shivam Sinha (Founder & CEO of Indiassetz), Seema Harsha, and tech executive Vishal Khare.
In complete alignment with statutory SEBI alternative investment guidelines for Category II private pools, the trust enforces a standard investment commitment floor of ₹1 Crore.
The administrative workflows, investment committee management, and regulatory reporting channels are controlled out of its headquarters at Mittal Tower on MG Road in Bengaluru.
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