Practice
Advisory
Two independent practices serving asset managers, each with its own team and body of work.
Core·CAMEUS
- Role
- Partner
- Clients
- Asset managers
- Structure
- Independent companies
Holding company · Amsterdam
Kane & Rao Group is a privately held holding company based in Amsterdam. The Group holds interests in two advisory practices serving asset managers, builds ventures to test defined use cases, and holds minority positions in a small number of operating businesses.
Activities
Practice
Two independent practices serving asset managers, each with its own team and body of work.
Core·CAMEUS
Venture
Realising the operational data archives of distressed and insolvent SMEs in the United Kingdom and the United States, from the lenders, insolvency practitioners, owners and software vendors who hold them, for placement with AI data buyers under contract.
data.kanerao.com·Launch 2026
Ventures are businesses the Group conceives, builds and funds itself. Each is built around a defined use case, brought to market as a working pilot, and established as a company in its own right once it has proved its market. Each has its own team, budget and timetable.
Holdings
Positions acquired with the Group's own capital and held for the long term: operating businesses in which the Group takes an operating role where it adds value, and early positions in digital-asset ventures.
Amsterdam Barber Company·Scandinavian Embassy·Robylon AI·Sújola·five digital-asset positions·four realised
Operating businesses
Digital assets
Realised or closed
Roam.ai, acquired by Echo Analytics, 2023 · Caduceus · SolRazr · Swing
Approach
Everything the Group holds sits at a point of exchange: a place where two parties stand to gain from each other and have not yet found a dependable way to meet. Asset managers and the allocators they hope to reach. The estates of insolvent companies and the buyers who can give their data a second life. A neighbourhood business and the people who walk past it every day. Our work is to build that connection, and then to keep it in good repair.
Markets shift and plans are rewritten; the people stay. A business, in the end, is what a particular group of people decide to do each morning. So we start with them: who they are, what they are trying to build, and whether we would want to build it alongside them. We hold for as long as the people do.
The Group invests only what it owns. There is no fund behind us and no quarterly report to satisfy, which lets us hold a position through the years it takes to become what it should. We do not seek investment proposals, and we are not quick to say yes.
We bring what a small business is usually short of: a finance function, a sharper commercial story, and software built for the job rather than bought off the shelf. Through the practices, we open doors to institutional asset managers for ventures that would otherwise struggle to find them. Where we have nothing to add, we stay out of the way.
About
The Group's activities are led by its two partners. Each practice maintains its own team, listed on its own site.
Partner
Founding partner and chief executive of Core. Leads ventures across asset management, AI and emerging-technology investment.
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Partner
Partner in Core and CAMEUS, advising asset managers on AI adoption, brand and distribution. Leads the Group's ventures and their technical development. Based in Amsterdam.
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Asset managers
Advisory enquiries are handled by the practices directly, including scoping, proposals and delivery.
core.global cameus.ioLenders, IPs, owners
Enquiries regarding data archives begin with a 15-minute call, booked through the venture's site.
data.kanerao.comGeneral
Press, holdings and general enquiries.
info@kanerao.com Book a 15-minute call