About
Since 2015, Visary Capital has been among the top performing funds in the crypto market from a realized IRR perspective, with hardened experience throughout multiple market cycles.
In 2018, Visary Capital launched its venture capital fund. Since launching, we have maintained a top tier IRR in our VC fund with multiple seed to unicorn investments and over 10 realized exits.
Faizan J. Khan is the Founder and CIO of Visary, with over 15 years of experience growing early stage software companies in the enterprise software and big data industries. He was an early employee at Pentaho, running the growth and enterprise sales teams, which was acquired by Hitachi for $600M in 2015. Following that, he became a self-taught investor in equities and commodities, finding early wins in technology stocks like Nvidia and AMD and uncovering early macro trends, before focusing on crypto, venture capital, and other asset classes.
In 2022, Faizan helped launch and scale GIFTSOFT, a payments and AML software platform for banks. In 2024, Faizan co-led the sale of GIFTSOFT to Constellation Software (TSX: CSU), a $100 billion market cap public software company with over $10 billion in annual revenue.
Faizan’s experience across many spectrums in business from growth and sales to operations, M&A, and finance in parallel to having a deep understanding of markets, psychology, and venture capital, is a rarity across the investment industry.
Visary Capital is a thesis-driven fund at heart, but also factors in many other investment disciplines. We hunt for the best opportunistic macro investments along with finding rare, talented, pragmatic founders building the future and supporting them across the business.
Core Principles
Multidisciplinary.
Apply experience across a variety of fields (financial markets, macro, enterprise technology, machine learning, open-source software) for pattern recognition and connecting the dots.
Founder Support.
Maximize relationships with all founders we invest in. Support their growth, business development, future fundraising, and operational efforts until the company exits.
Client-Driven.
Partner with founders and startups that are obsessed with client success and product stickiness, not the next fundraise or their paper net worth.
Simple, Liquid, Impactful.
Build a base of long term positions from first principles. Stay nimble and liquid to make impactful moves. Never over-intellectualize the market. Winners average winners.
Crypto Ethos.
Understand the unique aspects, ethos, and cyclicality of global, 24/7 crypto markets. Be able to think like a retail investor. Maintain involvement in the open-source world.
Data Complements Intuition.
Cut through the market noise by prioritizing raw, direct source data. More data is not necessarily better. Data is a complement to intuition, not a replacement.