Chapter 4 · Who's Behind It
Two founders. A decade of shared professional history. Thirteen papers published before you saw anything else.
We watched failures for years. We built this. And we put a puppy on our homepage.
Your mandate runs on 'Final_v3_USE_THIS.xlsx'. And you think our name is weird?
Boutique DPMs are managing institutional-scale complexity with non-institutional tools. This is not a technology gap. It is an access gap.
The systematic portfolio management infrastructure that institutional asset managers use as a matter of course has historically been inaccessible at boutique scale. The terminal costs are prohibitive. The integration complexity assumes a large technology team. The consumer robo-tools automate away the judgment that defines boutique wealth management. Vektor exists to close that gap.
We tell you what we cannot do before we tell you what we can. The What We Are Not document exists for a reason. Read it first.
The people who use this platform are responsible for other people’s money. That is not a context in which approximation is acceptable.
We are building this for the teams who chose to work differently. Not for everyone. For the ones who see the access gap and want it closed.
Three marks. One purpose.
Systematic listed equity portfolio management. Built from first principles. Documented in full.
We thought of it, we dismissed it as not serious. We spent several days on very serious, professional-sounding names. Entirely forgettable, all of them. One week later there was one name we still remembered, and we felt something for it we couldn’t explain or argue away. It’s still the name.
Before we built Vektor, we spent decades in the rooms where these projects fail. We wrote about it. Thirteen papers. Published under our own name. Not because it was comfortable — because it was accurate. Read the series →
Thirteen papers on structural failure modes in financial software implementation, written from experience in the rooms.
InvestPuppy is currently raising a seed round for Vektor. If you’re evaluating this as an investment rather than a prospective client, email contact@investpuppy.com — we’ll start with a conversation and the one-pager; the fuller pack (memo, deck, and financials) follows under NDA once there’s a fit.
The founders
Two founders. A decade of shared professional history. Careers spanning institutional portfolio management technology and cloud-native financial infrastructure — at Tier 1 scale, across multiple jurisdictions.
- BackgroundMulti-region institutional finance career prior to InvestPuppy
- FocusSystematic portfolio management technology — full commercial lifecycle
- ScaleGlobal Tier 1 bank deployments across multiple regulatory frameworks
- CredentialProduction OpenWealth API access — Tier 1 custodians, EMEA & APAC (prior role, predates InvestPuppy — see Delivery Models)
- RoleCommercial direction, client relationships, Proof Partner conversations
- FocusProduction financial technology infrastructure — core banking & cloud-native
- ScaleInstitutional-grade systems at Tier 1 scale; digital challenger bank architecture
- BuiltVektor platform — AWS, SageMaker ML pipeline, Step Functions order workflow
- CredentialOpenWealth architecture designed in from version one — read-side (Customer Management, Custody Services) prototype live in development; Trading API build remains a near-term development item. WP-07 →
The platform is the evidence of who built it.
Three design decisions in the platform that are only reached after operating inside these systems professionally.
The Stock Analyst, Portfolio Manager, and Operations structure is not an interface design choice. It reflects the compliance architecture a licensed discretionary manager operates under — the specific points at which human sign-off is structurally required and cannot be designed away. This is the structure you arrive at after the third audit where role separation was missing.
The allocation step fetches current market prices at the time of allocation — not yesterday’s close, and not the prices used during optimisation. This distinction matters when a position is sized against a price that no longer exists. It is built correctly because it has been built incorrectly before. See this in practice across SGX, NASDAQ, and LSE →
A record that can be changed is not an audit trail. This schema was designed by someone who sat with a compliance team reconstructing a decision twelve months later and found the record had been edited. That experience produced this design. It is not theoretical.
Five people, three nationalities. Beyond the two founders, InvestPuppy draws on experience in institutional quantitative research, production financial technology infrastructure, and regulatory compliance across Singapore, the UK, Switzerland, and the Middle East. We are a small team. That is a deliberate choice. It is also a temporary one.
The Unvarnished series is the founder biography.
Before we built Vektor, we spent decades in the rooms where these projects fail. We wrote about it. Thirteen papers, published under our own name, before showing you anything. Not because it was comfortable — because it was accurate. That is who built this.
On the name
Vektor is the product brand. InvestPuppy is the maker’s mark — the company that built it, positioned beneath the product in the same way a precision manufacturer sits beneath a branded instrument. The two brands carry different weights by design: Vektor carries the institutional register; InvestPuppy signals that something human and deliberate is underneath it.
The name was chosen for distinctiveness, not in spite of it. A name that generates a question is doing its job. The answer to that question is the platform.
Brand story document →Full identification
Names, professional histories, and verifiable references are provided under mutual NDA, available immediately on request. InvestPuppy executes first as an entity; personal identification follows under the executed instrument. For Proof Partners this is typically at proposal stage. For Alloy Partners it is at Stage 2 initiation.
Operating context
InvestPuppy Pte Ltd is a Singapore-incorporated software company. Vektor is a portfolio management workflow platform: it supports the portfolio manager’s process from screening to order generation, with full audit trail and systematic documentation at every step. Order routing operates through the client’s existing brokerage relationships — Vektor prepares and queues orders; execution is handled by the portfolio manager through their established counterparties. It is not a licensed fund manager, investment adviser, or securities dealer — it does not execute orders on behalf of clients or hold client assets. Discretion remains entirely with the portfolio manager.
InvestPuppy Pte Ltd operates as a technology vendor. It does not hold a Capital Markets Services licence or any other MAS licence. Vektor is portfolio management infrastructure used by licensed investment professionals to support their own licensed activities.
Regulatory documentation for Singapore, UK, Switzerland, and the Middle East is available on request.
