Explore Our Services
Blue Coast provides a connected suite of services designed for the global quant ecosystem. We raise capital for leading trading teams, recruit exceptional talent across trading, research, and technology, back emerging managers through proprietary investments, and deliver clarity to investors and teams through our data-intelligence platform.
MoreCapital Raising
We connect high-performing quant trading firms with sophisticated allocators through structured, transparent investments setups. Our focus is on long-term alignment via SMAs, software licensing, and capital structuring including lending arrangements where relevant.
Our Approach
- At Blue Coast, capital raising is a high-conviction process built on deep domain expertise and long-standing institutional relationships. With teams across London, San Francisco, Chicago, Sydney, San Diego, Panama, we combine global reach with local insight to support clients wherever they operate.
- We work closely with allocators to understand their mandate, risk appetite, and strategic priorities, while partnering with trading teams to refine their pitch, infrastructure, and readiness. Every introduction is timing-sensitive, tailored, and designed to create long-term alignment between capital and capability.
- Whether helping allocators discover differentiated strategies or guiding managers from their first $25M to $500M and beyond, we focus on quality, preparedness, and sustainable scale.
Capital raised by Blue Coast since inception
$350M+
Cumulative capital raised by our Team
$1.5B+
Quant trading teams vetted
350+
Active allocator relationships
75+
Recruitment
We connect the world’s leading trading firms with the top 1% of quant talent. Our recruitment model is boutique, high-touch, and designed for precision — from portfolio managers and researchers to engineers and business development leaders. We focus on quality, confidentiality, and long-term alignment.
Our Approach
- Quantitative trading at the core: Blue Coast specializes in recruitment for quantitative researchers, traders, developers, and portfolio managers.
- Technology as the backbone: We recruit low-latency engineers, data engineers, infrastructure specialists, and developers who enable world-class quant strategies.
- Portfolio managers across quant and discretionary: From systematic PMs to long-short discretionary managers, we help firms identify leaders who can run scalable strategies.
- Global reach, boutique focus: With teams across London, Sydney, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, and Panama. we combine global coverage with a specialist focus on trading talent.
- Precision matching: Every introduction is targeted and high-conviction. We build long-term relationships with candidates and clients, ensuring fit across skill, culture, and strategy.
Across 5+ major financial hubs
Global Coverage
Combined in-industry experience across quant trading and recruitment
20+ years
Active quant PMs and researchers in current network
200+
Of candidates targeted globally across trading, research and technology
Top 1%
Investments
Blue Coast actively deploys proprietary capital into systematic strategies and external managers. We back managers and strategies that demonstrate a clear and sustainable edge, while helping emerging managers gain a track record before introducing them to larger allocators.
Our Approach
- Capital allocation: We invest directly into quant managers across high-frequency, mid-frequency, and systematic strategies.
- Infrastructure advantage: By leveraging exchange relationships, fee tiers, and execution expertise, we help capital work harder and scale faster.
- Strategies we support: CTA, funding arbitrage, statistical arbitrage, long/short, and market making.
- Manager partnerships: We provide flexible capital structures, often through SMAs, designed to support long-term growth and future institutional allocation.
in proprietary assets managed
$2M+
strategy types allocated to
5+
managers allocated to
15+
Quant teams supported from inception to institutional scale
5+
Coming Soon
We offer a data-driven platform where allocators can monitor live strategies from top quant teams. Through standardized performance data and team backgrounds, we help uncover emerging opportunities and assess talent with clarity and confidence.