Multiverse Group

Multiverse Group

Alan Howard launched Multiverse Group in 1999 as his private investment vehicle, well before Brevan Howard Asset Management became one of Europe's largest macro hedge funds. The office manages proceeds from Mr. Howard's multi-decade career in interest-rate and foreign-exchange trading, first at Credit Suisse and later at the firm he co-founded with four other traders in 2002. Brevan Howard's rise — at its peak managing over $40 billion — gave Multiverse Group an enduring stream of proprietary capital to deploy independently of outside limited partners. Multiverse operates across three broad lanes: hedge fund allocations, direct technology venture investing, and digital-asset exposure. The office has been an anchor investor in multiple Brevan Howard funds, creating capital-efficiency overlap between the family balance sheet and the manager. Its venture arm favors financial infrastructure, enterprise software, and crypto-native companies. Confirmed direct positions have included Copper Technologies, a London-based digital-asset custody provider, and other hard-to-access pre-IPO fintech companies aligned with Mr. Howard's systematic-market worldview. Deal flow arrives through the Brevan Howard network — portfolio managers, prime-brokerage desks, and the partners who have passed through the firm's Geneva, New York, and Hong Kong offices. In September 2023, Brevan Howard launched its first dedicated digital-asset fund, BH Digital, with roughly $2 billion in assets — a move that Multiverse had presaged through years of direct crypto venture investing. The family office maintains no separate operational brand and does not seek external co-investors, preserving the structure of a pure single-family office. Mr. Howard's personal participation in crypto-asset illiquid markets, including positions in blockchain protocols and decentralized finance platforms, is understood to route partly through Multiverse. Multiverse's structural differentiator is its double life as both the anchor LP and the personal venture platform behind one of the world's largest systematic macro traders. Rather than diversify away from the founder's core competence, the office leans into it — converting hedge fund gains into concentrated bets on crypto infrastructure, trading technology, and the software that powers electronic markets. This creates a feedback loop where venture insights inform Brevan Howard's own algorithmic strategies, a posture few single-family offices can replicate.