Chicago, Illinois – March 26, 2026 – Kettera Strategies, an alternative investment platform operator based in Chicago, today revealed it has chosen Bite Stream, Bite Investments’ digital investor experience platform for onboarding, subscriptions, and investor management, to serve as the sole electronic subscription and investor management system for its Hydra managed account marketplace.

The Hydra platform from Kettera offers investors access to carefully selected liquid, diversifying trading strategies. Incorporating Bite Stream marks a crucial advancement in Kettera’s goal to enhance the investor experience and broaden access to institutional-grade strategies within this sector.

Bite Stream delivers digital infrastructure for investor onboarding, subscriptions, investor relations, and compliance processes, comprising an end-to-end platform engineered to simplify the investor experience by substituting disparate manual procedures with a unified, integrated system. As Kettera integrates this system, Hydra investors will enjoy a completely digital onboarding process, facilitating electronic subscriptions, redemptions, and transfers across Hydra Cells and associated vehicles. This system replaces conventional paper documents and manual tasks with an optimized interface aimed at boosting efficiency and operational supervision.

“The era of paper and PDF forms being circulated via email for traditional investments ended approximately 10 to 15 years ago,” stated Jon Stein, CEO of Kettera Strategies. “Although alternative investments lagged somewhat in adopting this, the majority of serious investors now anticipate a completely digital experience when engaging with these investments.”

Leveraging its distinctive and proprietary Hydra Cell structure—featuring elements like partial funding, increased transparency, and better liquidity—the Hydra platform occupies an intermediate position between a conventional fund and a directly managed account.

Stein clarified that these specific structural characteristics necessitated the firm’s assessment of over six distinct technology solutions across three years. “While investors appreciate our fund structures, most electronic subscription platforms did not,” Stein commented. “We faced a compatibility issue. However, Bite Investments understood our needs immediately, right from the start.”

Kettera further anticipates that the Bite Stream system will hasten the adoption of the Hydra platform among U.S. wealth advisors and RIAs, for whom efficient digital transaction capabilities are essential.

“Hydra offers a novel method for accessing alternative strategies, demanding infrastructure capable of supporting such adaptability without introducing extra operational intricacy,” stated Scott Hofmann, President of Bite Investments. “Bite Stream is engineered precisely for this purpose, consolidating onboarding, investor management, and compliance into one cohesive experience. We are delighted that Kettera chose Bite Stream and eagerly anticipate collaborating closely with their team as they further evolve and expand the Hydra platform.”

The implementation of Bite Stream across Hydra Cells is scheduled to take place over the coming two months, with complete electronic subscription functionality projected to be standard across the platform by mid-year.

ABOUT KETTERA STRATEGIES

Kettera Strategies LLC, established in 2014 and headquartered in Chicago, is an investment services company specializing in liquid alternative investments, portfolio creation, and structuring. The firm selects institutional-grade strategies such as global macro, managed futures, commodities, FX, quantitative methods, and specific equity hedge funds intended to diversify portfolios. Initially developed around the Hydra managed account platform, Kettera now integrates platform infrastructure with research, customized portfolio design, and structuring to assist institutional investors, family offices, and wealth advisors.

ABOUT BITE INVESTMENTS

Bite Investments is a worldwide financial technology firm that delivers inventive and scalable software solutions to the continuously growing alternative asset and wealth management sector. Bite Investments’ SaaS platform, Bite Stream, provides comprehensive solutions crafted to simplify and optimize the entire investment journey, encompassing fundraising, investor relations, reporting, and data management. Dedicated to security and efficiency, Bite Investments is relied upon by prominent alternative asset and wealth managers, fund administrators, and various other investment professionals globally. To learn more, visit www.biteinvestments.com.

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