Reported portfolio

Dev Kantesaria

Valley Forge Capital Management, LP

Last update 2026-08-14
Current positions
7
Top five concentration
93.3%
Largest position
25.8%
New positions
0
Closed positions
0

Reported holdings

7 positions
CompanyPortfolioRecent activitySharesReported priceReported valueUpdated / source
FICO
FAIR ISAAC CORP
25.77%
Reduced 12.6%672,186−97,156$1,195$803,114,000−$18,189,00013F2026-06-30 ↗
SPGI
S&P GLOBAL INC
19.92%
Reduced 13.3%1,524,036−234,038$407$620,679,000−$127,100,00013F2026-06-30 ↗
MCO
MOODYS CORP
19.14%
Unchanged1,317,188$453$596,581,000+$21,958,00013F2026-06-30 ↗
MA
MASTERCARD INCORPORATED
17.57%
Reduced 28.3%1,065,934−421,562$514$547,464,000−$195,779,00013F2026-06-30 ↗
ASML
ASML HLDG NV
10.92%
Unchanged171,083$1,989$340,359,000+$114,388,00013F2026-06-30 ↗
V
VISA INC
5.10%
Reduced 22.7%462,978−135,775$343$158,843,000−$22,124,00013F2026-06-30 ↗
INTU
INTUIT
1.58%
Unchanged189,072$261$49,348,000−$32,403,00013F2026-06-30 ↗

Reported price is calculated from the reported value and share count. It is not the investor's actual purchase price.

Filing history

Historical holdings

$3,116,388,000
Reported value
7
Positions
2026-08-14
Filed
Original filing ↗
TickerCompanyPortfolioSharesReported value
FICOFAIR ISAAC CORP25.77%672,186$803,114,000
SPGIS&P GLOBAL INC19.92%1,524,036$620,679,000
MCOMOODYS CORP19.14%1,317,188$596,581,000
MAMASTERCARD INCORPORATED17.57%1,065,934$547,464,000
ASMLASML HLDG NV10.92%171,083$340,359,000
VVISA INC5.10%462,978$158,843,000
INTUINTUIT1.58%189,072$49,348,000

Investor background

Dev Kantesaria

“The error that I see many people make is to sacrifice business quality for valuation.”

Dev Kantesaria is the founder and managing partner of Valley Forge Capital Management, a concentrated public-equity investment firm established in 2007. He studied biology at MIT and graduated from Harvard Medical School, but decided against practising medicine after discovering that his deeper interest lay in businesses and investing. He subsequently spent two years at McKinsey and approximately eighteen years in venture capital before launching Valley Forge with about $300,000 of capital from family and friends.

Kantesaria follows a highly selective interpretation of the Buffett–Munger approach. Valley Forge seeks “compounding machines”: capital-light monopolies or oligopolies with secular volume growth, pricing power, operating leverage, predictable free cash flow and limited dependence on exceptional management. Its investable universe may contain only about fifty companies worldwide, and the firm is unwilling to dilute its best ideas merely to appear diversified.

Kantesaria qualifies as a super investor because he combines a long record, exceptional concentration and a clearly observable decision process. Valley Forge often owns fewer than ten securities and rarely more than twenty. Its best-known investments—including S&P Global, Moody’s, Mastercard, Visa, Fair Isaac and ASML—reflect a consistent preference for businesses embedded in essential economic infrastructure. Multiple public interviews report that the firm has substantially outperformed the S&P 500 since inception, although a complete audited, fee-adjusted public return series is unavailable.

His principal advantage is disciplined exclusion. Kantesaria prioritises predictability over exciting narratives, refuses to sacrifice quality for a low valuation and may study a company for seven to ten years before investing. He even avoids biotechnology and pharmaceuticals despite his medical and venture-capital expertise because their long-term earnings are insufficiently predictable for his standards.