Vinit Bhatt

MIDS Student

vbhatt@ischool.berkeley.edu

Focus

Specialization

Data Science

Biography

Location

Menlo Park, California, United States

Websites

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinit-s-bhatt-8309b45b/

https://pathfinderstatarb.com/

https://sentagent.ai/

Founder and Data Scientist

Sentagent.ai
Mar 2025 - Present
Menlo Park, CA

Developing investment strategies and tools based on machine learning, data science and agents.

Founder and Portfolio Manager
Bhatt Innovation Capital, LLC, a California-registered RIA managing the PATHFINDER StatArb strategy. · Self-employedBhatt Innovation Capital, LLC, a California-registered RIA managing the PATHFINDER StatArb strategy. · Self-employed
Aug 2015 - Present
Menlo Park, CA

Founder and managing member of Bhatt Innovation Capital LLC, a California-registered RIA.
Background in engineering coupled with twenty years of investment experience in both fundamental and quantitative strategies.
Portfolio Manager for PATHFINDER StatArb with custody and trading through Charles Schwab. PATHFINDER enables personalized service to clients; effective oversight of actively managed, hedged accounts; greater flexibility in the investment strategy; and full transparency of holdings, while eliminating performance fees and minimizing management fees.
From 2015 to 2020, founded and operated Bhatt Innovation Capital LP, a long/short public equity hedge fund focused on technology, life sciences and industrial advancements. The fund out-performed the S&P 500 Total Return Index, the HFRX Fundamental Growth Index and the HFRX Equity Hedge Technology/Healthcare Indexx.

Portfolio Manager

Natixis Investment Managers Affiliate, Snyder Capital Management
1998 - Jul 2015
San Francisco, CA

Generalist In value-based stock investing for SEC-registered manager with over $2 billion AUM from largely institutional investors.
Investment style focused on high-quality, under-appreciated companies for superior returns. Focused on biopharma, technology, and process industry.

Education

University of California, Berkeley
MIDS Master's Program, Data Science
Mar 2025 - Dec 2026
Specializing in the application of data science and computer science to develop advanced quantitative investment strategies and intelligent trading agents.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
MBA
1987 - 1989
Specialization in finance and marketing.
University of California, Berkeley
BS, Chemical/ Biochemical Engineering
1977 - 1982
Undergraduate Research: Xylose Fermentation With Clostridium Thermohydrosulfuricum.
University of Virginia
MS, Chemical/ Biochemical Engineering.
1982 - 1984
Thesis: Effects of oxygen-enriched air on the production of biomass and cephamycin-C by Streptomyces lactamdurans.
Foothill College, Canada College and Self-Study
Continuing Education, Python, Data Science, Quantitative Investing
Apr 2023 - May 2025
Stuyvesant High School, NYC
HS, Science preparatory high school.
1974 - 1977