Elliott Cove Capital Management

Cody J. Kittle serves as Founder and Chief Investment Officer, making all portfolio-level decisions. Kittle previously worked at Blue Ridge Capital, the firm founded by Tiger Cub John Griffin, where he focused on long-short equities. His background informs Elliott Cove's concentrated public-market book.

Elliott Cove targets middle-market enterprise-software companies that traditional banks underserve. Kittle has stated publicly that the firm relies on relationships with founder-owners and niche investment banks rather than broad auction processes. The credit team looks for recurring-revenue models with strong customer retention.

It operates as both. The main vehicle is a concentrated long-short equity fund, but the firm also manages a captive direct-lending arm for private credit. Each strategy has separate investor liquidity terms while sharing a single research function and management company.

The firm does not operate as a fund of funds. All public-equity positions are taken directly, and all private credit investments are originated directly by the internal team. The credit strategy focuses exclusively on senior secured loans to individual companies.

The firm has shown no appetite for early-stage venture capital, real assets, or commodity-linked businesses. Its private credit focus stays within enterprise software, and the public-equity book avoids sectors like biotech and energy where Kittle has not built expertise.