ABOUT BLACKRIVER

Research for the moments consensus has not priced.

Blackriver Research studies the forces reshaping capital allocation—before they become a line item in a quarterly deck.

GAURAB BHATTARAI
FOUNDER / RESEARCH LEAD

A research desk built from first principles.

Gaurab Bhattarai founded Blackriver to make serious market research feel more immediate, more legible, and more useful to the next generation of allocators.

INVESTING
SINCE 15

ACADEMIC
RESEARCH DNA

TRACK RECORD
IN PUBLIC

How we research.

Geopolitics

Power, policy, and the supply lines that bend markets.

Technology

Compute, infrastructure, and strategic scarcity.

Deals

Control transactions before the crowd sees them.

Macro Trends

Liquidity cycles and economic regime shifts.

The next chapters are already underway.

01 / COMPETITIONS
A proving ground for high-conviction research.

02 / UNIVERSITIES
A sharper bridge between curriculum and markets.

03 / CORPORATE RESEARCH
Decision-ready intelligence for institutions.

04 / BLACKRIVER INVESTMENTS
Capital deployment informed by original work.

The signal, delivered.

A decisive weekly brief on what’s moving—and what’s next.