About Us

Masala Capital is a registered investment adviser located in Sacramento, California.

We provide investment advice and portfolio, wealth, and investment management services. Our investment advisory products and services are structured to provide clients with innovative and valuable investment opportunities, considering each client’s unique financial circumstances, risk tolerance, goals and objectives.

In literal translation, the word "masala" means "spice." Correspondingly, we hope to create value for our clients by adding a little bit of something special into every aspect of our services.

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WHO WE ARE

Meet the team behind Masala Capital

Our team is focused on creating value for clients by empowering people, cultivating stakeholder autonomy, creating knowledge partnerships, and provisioning the resources and guidance needed to invest with freedom, confidence, and comfort...

KAUTILYA PALAYPU

Co-Founder, Principal, & CCO

Mr. Palaypu is an entrepreneur actively serving on the board of directors and executive management teams of several private companies. He carries an avid interest in financial services, fintech, economic & financial data, hospitality, luxury brand management, environmental sustainability, and technology.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Director at Interups Inc

Management Consultant for Several Private Companies

Reservations & Revenue Management Training at Fraser Suites

Hospitality Management Training at The Oberoi

Hospitality Management Training at GIHE

OUR VISION

Our vision is to be the best investment and wealth management professionals.

OUR MISSION

We aim to provide the best investment and wealth management services by:

Providing excellent investment advisory, investment management, and wealth management services to individuals and institutional clients globally.

Conducting Sustainable Investment Research & Innovation (SIRI) with the objective to create value for our stakeholders.

Providing a broad range of asset classes and investment wealth management products to achieve the investment goals of all types of clients.

Create demand for value-creating enterprises.

Offering unique and innovative strategies, techniques, resources and solutions which help clients identify opportunities to invest with financial freedom, procure adequate control, and obtain expert guidance - ultimately, with the intent to create value for clients no matter their goals and objectives.

MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY

Client-centric
Autonomy

Every person must be given an equal opportunity to pursue the realization of their financial autonomy and freedom from precarity and most importantly, freedom from worry about their financial prospects.

Employee-centric Autonomy

Our employees are highly motivated, credentialled people with domain-specific expertise who employ their diverse backgrounds in the service of leveraging best possible solutions for our clients and ourselves.

Community-centric Autonomy

Our clients come in all age demographics and their financial planning needs often extend to encompass their cares and concerns for their loved ones, relatives, grand-children, and many others.

Shareholder-centric Autonomy

Our shareholders are doyens of the wealth management and fintech industry who marshall the years of lived experience and theoretical knowledge thereby generated in guiding Masala Capital towards ever loftier heights.

Our
Experience

EXPERTISE

Our executive management team is strengthened in support by the knowledge of twenty different co-founding investors and idea contributors who collectively have a broad range of experience within financial services and several other industries (incl. gold distribution, agriculture, hospitality, food & beverage, infrastructure development projects, commercial & residential real estate projects, and etc.)...