Artificial Intelligence
Supercycle® ETF
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Sundeep “Sunny” Madra is a recognized thought leader in the Artificial Intelligence space known for his deep expertise in AI, machine learning, and large-scale computing systems.
A seasoned entrepreneur, Sunny has an impressive track record of founding and successfully exiting multiple startups. His latest venture, Definitive Intelligence, was acquired by Groq — a cutting-edge computing company known for creating the fastest chip for LLM (Large Language Model) inference, enabling real-time chatbot responses with proprietary Language Processing Units (LPUs) — in early 2024. Following the acquisition, Sunny played a key role in launching GroqCloud and currently serves as the President of Supply Chain, Operations, and Go-to-Market at Groq.
Sunny’s other business ventures include co-founding and serving as CEO of Autonomic, a technology company focused on building infrastructure for smart mobility applications, which was later acquired by Ford. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as CTO of Xtreme Labs, a mobile app development company for leading brands, which was acquired by Pivotal.
In addition to his entrepreneurial ventures, Sunny held leadership roles at Ford, where he served as Vice President of Ford X, overseeing the automaker’s technology-focused initiatives.
Alongside his successful entrepreneurial career, Sunny has been an active angel investor since 2013. His extensive experience in technology, combined with deep expertise in AI, positions him as a key contributing member of the VistaShares investment committee.
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Justin Lopas is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Base Power, an energy technology company based in Austin, Texas, focused on modernizing and decentralizing the electrical grid through home battery systems. Before founding Base Power in 2023, he led manufacturing at Anduril Industries and worked at SpaceX, where he played a key role in building the Starship program and establishing the Starbase site in Texas.
At Anduril, he managed a team of over 150 people overseeing manufacturing, operations, and supply chain for advanced defense systems. Known for his precision-building mindset learned at SpaceX, Lopas now applies those principles to scalable energy infrastructure, helping transform battery storage into intelligent grid technology.
A graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in mechanical engineering, Lopas has also held positions at Apple and Baker Hughes.
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Ian Cinnamon is the CEO and Co-Founder of Apex, a high-rate configurable satellite bus platform manufacturer named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025. Backed by over $500 million from the world’s best investors, Apex’s first satellite bus set a world record as the fastest cleansheet design to production spacecraft operating in space.
Focused on meeting the needs of the rapidly expanding space industry and advancing critical national security missions like Golden Dome, Apex provides scalable platforms to both the commercial and government sectors. Apex’s Los Angeles production facility can deliver satellite buses to customers in weeks rather than the industry standard of months or years, with the capacity to produce over 200 buses per year at full scale.
Prior to his work with Apex, Ian founded Synapse, a company specializing in artificial intelligence for security and defense. Ian led the company through acquisition by Palantir. Earlier in his career, Ian co-founded Superlabs, which was sold to Zynga, where he served as Director of Product after the acquisition.
Ian is a Forbes “30 Under 30” honoree and an alumnus of Y Combinator. He received his B.S. from MIT and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Co-Founder
Jon currently serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of the venture studio, DVx Ventures. With a track record of founding and scaling six companies, Jon has led teams that generated tens of thousands of jobs and delivered multi-billion dollar returns for investors. At DVx, Jon and his team have launched 13 companies that are attacking broad opportunities in large markets.
Previously, Jon served as President at Tesla, where revenue grew from $2B to $20B in just 30 months. Subsequently, Jon joined Lyft as COO, where he played a pivotal role in doubling revenues and helping to take the company public. With a history as a six-time serial entrepreneur creating unicorns, Jon has a wealth of experience in operating and scaling companies during periods of hyper-growth in revenue and operations and has delivered returns of 9x to investors.
Jon currently holds advisory partner positions at Advent International and Goodwater Capital, serves as Vice Chair of the board of directors of Cruise, and is a board member for General Motors, Asurion, CrossFit, Stash, and Lululemon. During his tenure on the board of Lululemon, the company underwent a turnaround, resulting in a quintupling of its stock value.
Jon is a sought-after speaker, and frequently lectures at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management. He graduated from Northwestern University before beginning his career at Bain & Company.
Chief Investment Strategist
Robert F. Whitelaw was most recently the Dean of the Undergraduate College, and continues to serve, as the Edward C. Johnson 3d Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University.
Professor Whitelaw is best known for his comprehensive research on empirical asset pricing, including the resolution of the market-level risk-return puzzle, the role of information processing in explaining excess volatility, and the impact of frictions in generating apparent market inefficiency. His research also addresses the pricing and hedging of fixed income securities, and risk measurement and management.
His papers have been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies, as well as practitioner journals such as the Journal of Derivatives, the Journal of Fixed Income, Risk, and the Financial Analysts Journal. His research has received awards from organizations including Goldman Sachs Asset Management and the Chicago Quantitative Alliance. In addition, he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Program on Asset Pricing, and a past Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Finance.
He has a PhD in Finance from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business and a BS in Mathematics from MIT. Professor Whitelaw teaches portfolio management, investments/capital markets and international finance in the MBA, undergraduate and executive programs and asset pricing at the doctoral level.
Chief Executive Officer
Adam is a pioneer in the Exchange-Traded Funds industry. Prior to VistaShares, Adam founded IndexIQ with a vision to combine institutional quality alternative investment strategies with the power of ETFs to enhance portfolio construction for all investors. IndexIQ established itself as the leading alternative investment manager in the ETF industry and was acquired by New York Life Insurance Company in 2015.
As Chairman & CEO of IndexIQ, Adam was an architect behind IndexIQ’s award winning product line of alternative investment strategies, and post-acquisition worked to successfully integrate the firm into the New York Life Investments infrastructure, including the roll-out of IndexIQ branded ETFs globally.
Prior to founding IndexIQ, Adam held a series of senior executive roles at TimeWarner, including at Fortune Magazine where he led Fortune Indexes, the creator of the first smart beta index. Fortune Indexes was an early entrant into the ETF industry, having launched the Fortune 500 ETF in partnership with State Street Global Advisors back in 2000.
Adam is frequently featured in the media and has won numerous awards as an expert in ETFs and alternative investments. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management with a triple major in Finance, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, and a B.S. in Finance from University at Albany.
EVP, Investment Strategist
David is a Principal at DVx, overseeing diligence on new ventures and external investments. Before joining DVx, David was at Mithril Capital Management, a global technology investment fund. At Mithril, David worked on the investment team, evaluating esoteric investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies. David is a graduate at McGill University.
Our Bill of Materials approach starts with what actually has to be built. We map the components, equipment, infrastructure, and technologies required for an investment theme to scale, then identify the companies supplying each piece.
Instead of weighting by market cap, we weight by the role each part of the buildout plays. The result is exposure designed to follow where industry CAPEX is going, not simply where market value already sits.
GPUs, CPUs and the server systems that house them provide the processing power to train AI models and run applications.
Memory holds the information processors need immediately, while storage retains the models, datasets and results that support AI workloads.
Switches, optical connections and cables move data between chips, servers and data centers, allowing thousands of processors to work together.
Switchgear and power supplies convert, distribute and regulate electricity, delivering reliable power from the grid to the chip.
Air and liquid cooling systems remove heat from servers, keeping equipment operating reliably as computing power increases.
Weights are illustrative and may change.
All Supercycle® Funds
Pure Exposure™ to the data center and semiconductor infrastructure powering the AI build-out.
The Bill of Materials behind the electrification buildout: the equipment and technologies required to generate, move, store, and manage power.
The defense procurement supply chain, from sensors and missile systems to ammunitions and ground vehicles.
The robotics value chain, from core hardware and sensing to humanoid platforms.
The companies that build, launch, operate, and enable the global space economy.
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The VistaShares Supercycle® ETFs are actively managed thematic infrastructure ETFs, each built around one long-term technology trend. The family currently includes AIS (AI Infrastructure ETF), POW (AI Power Infrastructure ETF), GALX (Space Infrastructure ETF), RTOO (Robotics Infrastructure ETF) and AMMO (Defense Infrastructure ETF). Each seeks long term capital appreciation by investing in global companies across its theme's supply chain.
VistaShares defines supercycles as long-term trends in which technological advances disrupt existing economic models. A supercycle is not a single product or a short market rally: it is a shift that can reshape how an industry produces, buys and sells over many years. Each Supercycle® ETF is built around one such trend, artificial intelligence, electrification, space, robotics or defense, and invests in the companies that supply it.
An ordinary market or business cycle describes the rise and fall of prices or economic activity over a period of time. VistaShares uses "supercycle" for something longer and structural: a technology-driven trend that disrupts existing economic models. A supercycle can still include periods of falling prices, and Supercycle® ETFs can lose value.
A thematic ETF invests in companies linked to a specific long-term trend, such as artificial intelligence or space, rather than tracking a broad market index. Because they focus on one trend, thematic ETFs are usually more concentrated than broad market funds, and their returns can differ significantly from the overall market. The Supercycle® ETFs are thematic ETFs focused on the infrastructure behind each trend.
A sector ETF holds companies from a standard industry classification, such as technology or industrials. A thematic ETF holds companies linked to a trend, which may span several sectors. For example, AMMO's defense supply chain includes electronics, materials and aerospace companies, and POW's electrification theme includes grid, storage and vehicle component companies.
Each fund focuses on the infrastructure that a trend depends on: the components, systems and services that must be built for the trend to grow. AIS covers chips, data centers and applications for AI; POW covers grids, storage and distributed power; GALX covers launch, satellites, ground systems and networks; RTOO covers robot hardware, sensing and software; and AMMO covers the defense supply chain.
VistaShares starts by analyzing each theme's supply chain to identify the companies and profit pools in each sub-industry segment with significant economic exposure to the theme. It then applies its Bill of Materials process to weight the companies contributing to each step. Each fund follows a rules-based methodology set out in its rule book, is rebalanced each June and December, and is reviewed between rebalances by the Investment Committee.
In manufacturing, a bill of materials lists every part needed to build a product. VistaShares applies the same idea to a theme: its Bill of Materials process identifies and weights the companies contributing to each step in the production process that leads to a final product. Each Supercycle® ETF has its own Bill of Materials, from five sections for GALX to eight for RTOO, and each section is a source of holdings.
Companies are weighted through the Bill of Materials process, according to their contribution to each step in the theme's production process, under the rules in each fund's rule book.
Each Supercycle® ETF has a rule book that sets out its construction methodology: how the theme is defined, how companies are identified and weighted, and how and when the portfolio is rebalanced. Each fund page links to its rule book, for example the VistaShares Artificial Intelligence Supercycle ETF (AIS) rule book.
All five Supercycle® ETFs are actively managed; none is an index fund. Each follows a rules-based methodology, set out in its rule book, for identifying the companies in its theme and weighting them through the Bill of Materials process, and the Investment Committee can add or remove companies between the June and December rebalances.
The risk management overlay is the Investment Committee's ongoing review of each Supercycle® portfolio between its June and December rebalances. The committee monitors companies in each industry segment along the supply chain and may add or remove companies before the next rebalance date if it considers that necessary, for example if a company's business changes. The overlay is designed to keep the portfolio aligned with its theme; it does not eliminate risk or prevent losses.
All five Supercycle® ETFs are rebalanced semi-annually, in June and December. Between those dates, the Investment Committee may add or remove companies through its risk management overlay.
The investment adviser for every Supercycle® ETF is VistaShares Advisors LLC, and the portfolios are run by the VistaShares Investment Committee. The committee combines investment research and portfolio management experience with experience building and scaling technology companies. More about the firm and its team is on the About VistaShares page.
Industry operators advise the Investment Committee on specific themes, bringing hands-on experience in areas such as AI computing and chip supply chains, energy technology and grid batteries, satellite manufacturing, launch programs and defense manufacturing. They help the committee understand each supply chain that a Bill of Materials maps. More about them is on the About VistaShares page.
Each fund covers a different supply chain. AIS invests in AI semiconductors, data centers and AI-enabled applications. POW invests in electrification: energy grids, storage, distributed power and electric-vehicle components. GALX invests in launch, satellites, ground systems, space networks and space data. RTOO invests in robotics, from components and software to humanoid platforms. AMMO invests across the defense supply chain, from electronics to missiles, space and ground vehicle systems.
Each fund has its own mandate and Bill of Materials, but some themes touch: AMMO includes defense space systems, which relate to GALX; RTOO includes defense robotics; and AIS's AI data center theme sits next to POW's AI power infrastructure theme. A company with significant exposure to more than one theme could appear in more than one fund. Each fund page lists its current holdings.
Holdings vary by fund and change as portfolios are rebalanced. AIS holds 65 to 75 companies; POW, GALX, RTOO and AMMO typically hold between 50 and 70 companies each. Each fund page lists its full holdings, updated daily. No VistaShares fund holds private companies.
It means each Supercycle® ETF aims to grow in value over the long term, rather than to produce regular income. It is an objective, not a promise: the funds' values can fall, and investors can lose money.
Each Supercycle® ETF has an expense ratio of 0.75%, as stated on the fund pages on November 12, 2026. The expense ratio is the fund's annual operating cost as a percentage of assets and is reflected in returns rather than billed separately. Brokerage commissions may apply when buying or selling shares.
Each Supercycle® ETF has an annual distribution frequency. The funds seek long term capital appreciation rather than income, so distributions are not the focus of the strategies. Any distribution amounts and dates are on each fund page.
In general, investors in a taxable account may owe tax on fund distributions and on any gain when they sell shares. Tax treatment depends on each investor's situation; consult a tax advisor.
Each fund holds many companies, but each concentrates in one theme, so conditions that hurt that industry can affect the fund more than a fund spread across many industries. Discuss how a thematic fund fits your portfolio with your financial advisor. Investments involve risk, including possible loss of principal.
Each Supercycle® ETF is concentrated in one theme and carries risks specific to it: AI and technology risk for AIS; grid, energy storage and electric vehicle risk for POW; launch, regulatory and government contract risk for GALX; capital spending and technology change risk for RTOO; and government budget and geopolitical risk for AMMO. All carry equity market and foreign securities risk, and several are new funds. Investments involve risk, including possible loss of principal.
Yes. All five funds invest in global companies, so each can hold companies listed outside the United States. Non-US securities can change in value more rapidly and sharply than US securities, and foreign markets may be less developed, efficient or liquid. Investments involve risk, including possible loss of principal.
All five Supercycle® ETFs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and can be bought or sold through a brokerage account, or through a financial advisor, during market hours using their tickers: AIS, POW, GALX, RTOO and AMMO. The minimum investment is one share. Shares trade at market price, which may differ from net asset value, and brokerage commissions may apply.
Listed ETFs such as the Supercycle® ETFs can generally be held in brokerage IRAs and other retirement accounts, subject to the account provider's rules. Tax treatment of retirement accounts depends on the account type and your situation; consult a tax advisor.
Supercycle® ETFs, like all VistaShares ETFs, are US-listed. International investors should check with their local broker whether they can buy them.
For fund information, call (844) 875-2288. Each fund page links the prospectus, summary prospectus, statement of additional information (SAI), shareholder reports and the fund's rule book, and shows current figures with their as-of dates. Foreside Fund Services, LLC is the distributor.
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