William Peets

William “Will” Peets is a CFA charterholder and investor with a risk-management-heavy background across hedge funds, digital assets, and early-stage investing. 100 Acre Ventures’ team page identifies him as Founder and CIO and says he previously spent six years at Passport Capital as Chief Risk Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Passport Digital Holdings.

At Passport Capital, Peets helped inform portfolio construction, position sizing, hedging, and risk management for a firm that 100 Acre Ventures says managed $4.5 billion in assets. Before Passport, he was a Vice President at MSCI, where he consulted with hedge funds on portfolio construction and the use of Barra and RiskMetrics.

Peets founded 100 Acre Ventures in 2020 as a technical investment firm focused on digital assets. SEC filings list him as an executive officer, director, and promoter of 100 Acre DeFi Opportunities Fund, LP, and as Managing Member of its general partner. The firm’s DeFi Opportunities Fund filed a Form D amendment dated April 9, 2025, reporting a first sale on June 1, 2024 and $1.5 million sold to five investors.

As of Energy Group Capital’s current website, Peets is President & Head of Risk. The firm launched in 2024 and describes itself as a market-neutral hedge fund manager focused on energy, natural resources, and power. Its team bio says Peets brings expertise in portfolio construction, tail-risk hedging, and systematic/liquidity dynamics.

• 100 Acre Ventures focuses on the emerging digital asset class and emphasizes a “disciplined, risk-forward investment philosophy” for institutional investment in crypto and DeFi.
• Peets’ DeFi fund approach is rules-based and index-like, seeking to capture the broader DeFi opportunity set using metrics such as total value locked, trading volume, protocol fees, and protocol revenue.
• The 100 Acre DeFi methodology favors protocols with network value, fees, revenue, and revenue growth, while downweighting assets with expected future token distributions.
• Peets has stated that the DeFi fund is chain-agnostic and uses stablecoin balances as a top-down ecosystem eligibility signal, paired with bottom-up protocol metrics for constituent weights.
• His recent DeFi thesis highlights regulatory clarity, improved token models, direct investment in liquid tokens, valuation convergence with public equities, technological maturity, and institutional adoption as 3–5 year tailwinds.
• Energy Group Capital’s current strategy is market-neutral energy and power investing, with a stated focus on clean energy, electrification, grid transformation, AI-driven electricity demand, and factor-controlled risk management.