About Us
Free to engineer
an investment approach
for the future.
Plutus21 is a Dallas-based team of engineers, data scientists, technology specialists, and investors focused on helping businesses grow through technology. Since 2017, we’ve worked alongside companies to turn ambitious ideas into practical solutions, combining strategic expertise with hands-on execution across AI transformation, technology development, and business growth.
The Partners, Dallas 100™ Entrepreneur Awards
Recognized by the people who track performance.
Awards and rankings from independent third parties, for the funds and for the firm.
#291Inc. 50002026, America’s fastest-growing private companies
#12SMU Cox Dallas 100™2025, among the fastest-growing companies in Dallas
AI 75Dallas Innovates2026, the people and companies shaping AI in Dallas–Fort Worth
#1 & #2BarclayHedge2023, #1 and #2 asset class performance awards
12Crypto Fund Research
Awards and recognitions are granted by independent third parties and reflect past results. We do not know the exact criteria or methodologies used in their determinations. Plutus21 has no affiliation with, and did not provide compensation to, any third party in exchange for these awards. Awards should not be construed as a guarantee of future performance or outcomes. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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$65M
Assets under management
5,000+
Public companies analyzed
100+
Unique data points in production
30–50
Portfolio companies
Stories from the companies we work alongside
A compliance data company, 2023 to today
Every time the bottleneck moved, we moved with it
They needed more engineers without blowing the budget, so we started with four in Pakistan. Then an acquisition in France needed integrating, and we had a team in Morocco within a week. Then a new commercial lead needed a sales team, so we built one with him from scratch.
“At each stage, the strategy changed because the bottleneck changed.”
Three years later: 80 engineers, a 25-person commercial team, people on three continents.
Told by Daniyal Awan & Bradley Herman
An executive transportation company, Dec 2024 to today
Giving a fast-growing team a steadier way to build
The business was growing fast, but its technology hadn’t kept up: CTOs kept leaving, the code lived in six separate places and nobody owned testing. Customers count on it for their safety, so everything had to keep running while we rebuilt it.
“It needed a more disciplined technology operating model.”
Today: a 20-person tech team, two new apps in customers’ hands, and releases every week.
Told by Bradley Herman & Daniyal Awan
The full write-ups are shared with clients and partners.
The truth is that we had not seen the inside of a hedge fund when we decided to start one.
We met at an alumni event and bonded over a shared belief that investors were underestimating blockchain as a transformative technology.
We were simply two people trying to figure out where the world was going while using our own savings as the tuition fee.
What felt like our biggest disadvantage ended up being our greatest, unfair advantage. Because we did not come from a traditional hedge fund background, we were not burdened by how things had always been done.
We started this organization as broke recent graduates. We built our entire capital base by investing in our way of thinking about the world and then reinvesting the capital and fees as we grew.
Hamiz Awan & Richard Raizes
Partners and Co-Founders, Plutus21 Capital
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”
Roy Amara, Foundational Letter, Hamiz Awan & Richard Raizes
How people describe us:
01
Insatiable curiosity
02
Relentless innovation
03
Absolute alignment
04
Unshakeable integrity
The people behind Plutus21
Hamiz Awan
Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Chairman Investments
Came from Karachi to SMU in 2014 and co-founded the firm as a student. Leads quantitative research and technology, and built “Peter,” our in-house LLM.
Richard Raizes
Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Director Investments
SMU Cox finance graduate who left investment and corporate banking to launch the firm’s first fund. Leads fundamental research.
Daniyal Awan
Managing Partner, Director Consulting
The firm’s early CFO, who helped turn the idea into an operating business. Co-wrote the Partners Manifesto and leads enterprise AI programs.
Bradley Herman
Co-Founder, Plutus21 Partners, Managing Partner, Director Consulting
Former Iowa tight end and New England Patriots signee who built and exited his own business before co-founding Partners.
Also on the team
Tahir Sultan
Junior Partner
Noha Hamraoui
Junior Partner
Narmeen Merchant
Junior Partner
Areebah Akhlaque
Junior Partner
Arsala Khan
Senior Researcher
Ibtissam Nafie
Operating Partner
Led from Dallas, delivered worldwide
200+ professionals across four countries, working around the clock for the teams we build.
Dallas, Texas, HQ
US-led operating leadership and investing
Casablanca & Tangier, Morocco
Integration and commercial teams
Colombia
Talent hub aligned to US time zones
Pakistan
Engineering
Build the companies of tomorrow with us
We hire engineers, researchers, operators and salespeople across the four countries where we operate, with many roles open to remote work.
AI Engineer
Casablanca, Morocco
Cybersecurity Engineer
Karachi, Pakistan
Value Creation Specialist
Bogotá, Colombia
Research Operations Analyst
Casablanca, Morocco
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