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Silver8 Capital
Weiying Gu's Silver8 Capital runs a multi-strategy hedge fund with quantitative and fundamental mandates, operating from New York and Shanghai.
Silver8 Capital
Silver8 Capital was founded in 2013 by Weiying Gu, a former senior vice president at D.E. Shaw, where she specialized in global macro and systematic strategies. The firm operates from a primary base in New York with additional trading and research presences in Stamford, Palo Alto, Shanghai, and Singapore. Partner and portfolio manager Rahul Moodgal, a veteran from Parallax Fund and D.E. Shaw, joined to help run the book. The firm is not a family office but a multi-manager platform drawing institutional capital. Gu runs a multi-strategy portfolio allocating risk across equities, credit, and event-driven situations, with a heavy quantitative overlay informed by her D.E. Shaw training. The firm operates direct investment mandates — there is no multi-manager, pod-shop dispersion here — with a concentrated team deploying across long-short equity in technology and consumer, merger arbitrage, and Asia-Pacific special situations. The Shanghai office targets onshore Chinese opportunities, while the Palo Alto desk captures venture-secondaries and pre-IPO stakes. Confirmed positions, per SEC filings, have included stakes in Chinese consumer and tech names active on US exchanges. Headcount remains north of 30, per public record, spread across five offices. The firm does not disclose total AUM. Altss estimates the firm manages between $1.0 billion and $3.0 billion, based on team size parity with comparable multi-strategy managers and observed 13F filing scale. In mid-2025, the firm was actively recruiting quantitative researchers for the New York and Shanghai desks, signaling expansion of its systematic equity market-neutral book. Structurally, Silver8 separates itself from the dense field of D.E. Shaw spinouts by its early, deliberate footprint in mainland China — not just a sourcing outpost but an active, registered trading entity with on-the-ground analysts. This dual-hemisphere structure gives the firm a genuine two-market edge in both liquid and semi-liquid strategies, while the concentrated team avoids the headcount bloat and siloed risk-taking of a typical multi-manager platform.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
2013
AUM
$1.0B – $3.0B (Altss estimate)
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
New York
Corporate office
New York, NY, United States
Additional offices
Stamford, CT · Palo Alto, CA · Shanghai, China · Singapore
Principals
Weiying Gu
Chief Investment Officer
Rahul Moodgal
Partner, Portfolio Manager
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Silver8 Capital?
Weiying Gu is the Chief Investment Officer and primary decision-maker. She founded the firm after a career at D.E. Shaw, where she was a senior vice president focused on global macro and systematic strategies. Partner Rahul Moodgal, also a D.E. Shaw alum and former portfolio manager at Parallax Fund, shares portfolio management duties, per public record.
Is Silver8 Capital a family office or a hedge fund?
Silver8 Capital operates as a multi-strategy hedge fund manager for institutional clients, not a single-family or multi-family office. The firm is a registered investment adviser running comingled private fund vehicles from offices in New York, Stamford, Palo Alto, Shanghai, and Singapore.
What investment strategies does Silver8 run?
The firm allocates across four major sleeves: quantitative equity market-neutral, fundamental long-short equity, event-driven and merger arbitrage, and corporate credit. The Shanghai office adds an Asia-Pacific special-situations capability, while the Palo Alto location covers venture-secondaries and pre-IPO technology names.
How does Silver8 source deals in China?
Silver8 maintains a fully registered, on-the-ground entity in Shanghai with locally hired analysts and traders. This is not a rep office — the firm executes direct onshore trades in Chinese equities and participates in event-driven situations where local regulatory licensing provides a structural information advantage over peers relying solely on QFII pipes or swap desks.
Does the firm disclose its assets under management?
Silver8 Capital does not publicly report AUM. Altss estimates the firm manages between $1.0 billion and $3.0 billion, based on observable team size, comparable multi-strategy peers with similar headcount dispersion, and the scale of 13F filings. No external publication has confirmed a precise number.
What distinguishes Silver8 from other D.E. Shaw spinouts?
Most D.E. Shaw alumni firms concentrate on systematic equities in Connecticut, New York, or Hong Kong. Silver8's early, deliberate mainland China build-out — a registered Shanghai trading entity with local research talent — gives it a two-hemisphere approach. This lets the team run simultaneous US event-driven books and onshore China special situations without the latency or regulatory friction of remote management.
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