About Us

We are a digitally native, independent investment advisor specializing in alternative investments and digital assets.

Essentially, Lumida Wealth is our response to the need for a more integrated and client-first approach in wealth management.

We're committed to putting our clients' interests first and eagerly await the opportunity to guide others on their journey to managing wealth and legacy.

Our circle of excellence is the intersection of finance and technology. We bring decades of direct operating and investing experience across private funds, hedge funds, and banks.

We have a deep understanding of both the traditional financial world and the innovative technologies that are shaping the future of investing.

OUR TEAM

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Ram Ahluwalia, CFA
CEO, Co-Founder Lumida Wealth

Ram built his career in banking & capital markets. He started investing in Alternative Assets after the 2008 crisis, and saw the power of investing in niche and overlooked strategies.

Ram’s investment experience covers hedge funds, private equity, credit, and digital assets.

Ram was a pre-IPO investor in various startups including Lyft, LendingClub, and Digital Ocean.

Ram also successfully invested in structured products (non-agency RMBS), esoteric strategies such as quant market-neutral hedge funds, and long/short biotech hedge funds.

Ram published research on mispriced assets such as the Grayscale WidowMaker trade on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast. The Grayscale trade has gone on to be one of the best non-consensus investments in 2023.

Ram built PeerIQ, a leading platform for managing credit risk, and exited the business to Cross River Bank - the leading a16z back FinTech bank.

Ram is a frequent speaker and his investment approach is oriented on ‘non-consensus’ thinking and deep analysis. His research and writing has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, CNBC, American Banker and more.

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Justin Guilder
COO, CLO, Co-Founder

Justin built his career in law, banking, and wealth management.

After leaving Big Law, Justin co-founded PennAve One, a boutique investment firm in Washington, D.C., focused on venture capital, mezzanine debt, and alternative assets.  

During that time, Justin and his co-founders also incubated and built a state chartered trust company, the Reserve Trust Company, which Justin ended up leading as CEO.

Reserve Trust, which had a novel legal / regulatory structure, was the first state chartered trust company with direct access to the federal payment system.

Reserve Trust was at the leading edge of BaaS infrastructure enablement for embedded and programmatic payments.  

Justin and his co-founders sold Reserve Trust in 2021 to QED Investors, a leading FinTech venture capital firm.Justin started his legal career at Kilpatrick Stockton LLP where he served as class counsel for hundreds of thousands of individual Indians suing the United States Departments of Interior and Treasury in the Cobell litigation, the largest fiduciary litigation in the history of the United States.

That litigation resulted in a $3.4 billion judgment in favor of the Indian plaintiffs.  

Thereafter, Justin joined Dentons LLP and had a varied practice representing banks, financial services companies, trust departments, and trust beneficiaries in litigation and regulatory investigations.

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What we do

Our approach is centered on three pillars

Endowment-style Investing
We invest across asset classes with a preference for tax-efficient alternative investments. We prefer niche, capacity constrained, strategies with a capital imbalance or dislocation.
Excellent Service
Clients have a dedicated professional that is focused on helping them achieve their financial and health goals.
Connecting Wealth & Health
We provide integrated solutions to individuals and families for growth, management, and preservation of wealth, health, and legacy.
Our approach is holistic. We start by deeply understanding our clients’ wealth, health, and legacy objectives.

...built by a team of crypto-native investment professionals.

We offer financial planning to balance cash flow management with investment objectives

How we do it
We are a fiduciary, not a commission incentivized broker, which allows us to source and provide our clients access to products and services best fit for their particular needs.

We structure endowment style investing that balances capital appreciation with income generation through a multi asset class investment strategy.

We focus on investment themes that we believe are changing the way the world operates.

We support our clients full legacy management, creating wealth and health blueprints to guide everything from wealth creation to healthspan maintenance to trust and estate planning and insurance structuring.

We dedicate significant resources to high touch client support so that our clients get back their time and have peace of mind.
The Lumida Advantage

Client-First Approach

As a fiduciary, we embody a client-first ethos.

We are not a broker-dealer like the big banks which have conflicts of interest and earn hidden fees for pushing internal products or winning investment banking mandates.

Lumida is a fee-only advisor. Our interests are aligned with yours. Our solutions are tailored to your objectives. We do not take a cookie-cutter approach prevalent in traditional wealth management.

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Expertise in Alternatives

Our investment motto is "Invest Beyond the Ordinary” which refers to our focus on Alternative Investments. Our team and advisors backgrounds have expertise in Credit Strategies, Private Equity, and Digital Assets.

We tap into a distinguished network of top-tier investment professionals, each with deep insights and leadership in their respective fields. These fields include Venture Capital, Biotechnology, and AI / Semiconductors.

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Your Financial Quarterback

Lumida takes the stress off managing your investments, giving you more time for family, hobbies, and other important things. We offer a quarterback service.

The quarterback will work with your tax advisors, estate attorneys, bookkeepers and insurance agents to give your time back and drive your agenda forward. We ensure seamless execution from K-1 collection to sub-doc handling, all while optimizing cash and liquidity management to meet your financial aspirations.

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Preserving and Growing a Legacy

Lumida is devoted to a holistic wealth management approach.

Our bespoke estate planning & insurance services, help safeguard not just your financial, but overall well-being across generations.

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WHAT WE’VE BUILT

Individuals

Understanding that each individual has a unique financial path, we offer personalized guidance and strategies to navigate the complexities of personal wealth management.

Institutions

For institutions, we offer strategies as robust as your foundations. We understand  challenges in institutional finance and offer specialized support for DAOs/Protocols, Endowments, and Pensions.

Family Offices

The world of family offices is not just about managing wealth; it's about preserving a legacy.

Our investors bring deep expertise across digital assets, traditional finance, and financial services regulation

Social Leverage

GP (fmr Head of Data Science at Third Point and WorldQuant)

Social Leverage

GP (fmr Head of Data Science at Third Point and WorldQuant)

Social Leverage

GP (fmr Head of Data Science at Third Point and WorldQuant)

Arthur Levitt
Arthur Levitt

Former SEC Chairman

Social Leverage
Social Leverage

Howard Linzdon, Founder and Managing Partner

Ryan Selkis
Ryan Selkis

Founder & CEO, Messari

6th Man Ventures
6th Man Ventures

Mike Dudas, Founder and General Partner

Gokul Rajaram
Gokul Rajaram

Board Member, Coinbase

Fenway Summer Ventures
Fenway Summer Ventures

Raj Date, Founder and Former Dep. Director of the CFPB

Red Beard Ventures
Red Beard Ventures

Drew Austin, Founder and General Partner

Marshall Lux
Marshall Lux

Advisor/Fellow at BCG, McKinsey, Harvard

Henry Pinnell
Henry Pinnell

SMD of Tech Investment Banking, SVB

Social Leverage
Social Leverage

Matt Ober, General Partner and Member of Lumida's Board of Directors

Dev Gopalan
Dev Gopalan

Head of Private Credit, Sagard (former Head of US Private Credit, KKR)

Neal Berger
Neal Berger

Founder, Eagle's View Capital Management

Hany Rashwan
Hany Rashwan

Founder & CEO, 21 Shares

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