Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Limited

Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Limited

Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Limited was established in 2023 as the single-family office for the Kotak family, whose wealth originates from the Kotak Mahindra Group — a diversified financial services conglomerate founded by Uday Kotak. The firm operates from Mumbai and is led by Rohit Kotak, who had previously held roles in investment banking. The family office targets private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, and hedge fund allocations (per The Economic Times, 2023). It makes direct investments in Indian growth-stage companies and participates in co-investments alongside external fund managers. Sectors of focus include financial services, technology, and infrastructure. Team size and additional offices are not publicly disclosed. The Kotak family's other entities include a charitable foundation, the Kotak Education Foundation, which is operated separately from the investment office. No recent operational events have been reported in public sources. A structural differentiator is how the family office is set up as an independent limited company rather than a pure internal department, giving it a more professional investment governance structure. The firm uses a CIO-led model with a small team, avoiding the overhead of a large multi-family office.