Our Story

The Origin

Most university investment clubs teach students to pitch stocks. They don’t teach them to manage risk, document their reasoning, or face the consequences of being wrong. Shivam Sharma and Ryan Zhao started Silo Fund Capital because they wanted something different.

The premise was simple: if you’re going to deploy capital, you need a written thesis. You need a stop loss. You need invalidation criteria defined before entry, not invented after the fact. And when a position closes — win or lose — you write a post-mortem.

The name “Silo” reflects the fund’s architecture. Each investment sleeve operates independently — its own mandate, its own lead, its own risk framework. Strategy doesn’t bleed across sleeves. Accountability is local. Decisions are owned.

How We Think

Every position begins with a written thesis. Not a verbal pitch, not a group chat message — a structured document that states the thesis, the expected holding period, the target, and the conditions under which the thesis is invalid. If you can’t write it down clearly, you don’t have conviction.

Risk is defined before entry. Stop losses are non-negotiable. If a position hits its stop, it’s closed — no committee vote, no averaging down, no waiting for a recovery. This isn’t about being right. It’s about surviving being wrong.

Every closed position gets a post-mortem. What did we get right? What did we miss? Was the thesis valid but the timing wrong, or was the thesis itself flawed? This is where the actual learning happens — not in the pitch, but in the review.

The Team