Aceana Group

Aceana Group is a Miami-based single family office led by Russell Deakin, its founding managing partner and chief investment officer, focused on private investments. <cite index="4-0,4-1">Deakin is the CIO and founding managing partner of Aceana Group, an SFO focused on private investments, and an executive with roughly 30 years' experience across North America, Europe, Asia and South America in private equity and venture capital.</cite> <cite index="4-2">Previously, he was a managing director of Rio Bravo Investimentos, a fund manager with about USD 2.6 billion in assets.</cite> The office allocates across venture, private credit, real estate and infrastructure via funds, direct deals and co-investments, with recent activity in blockchain, crypto, AI, deep tech, life science and fintech. <cite index="2-0">Roughly 60% of its private markets portfolio is invested in venture, with the office seeking "deep vertical experience."</cite> A third-party estimate places assets around $250M.