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Coatue Management

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Coatue Management

VC Fund 📍 United States, North America

About Coatue Management

Coatue Management is a New York-based investment firm founded in 1999 by Philippe Laffont, a former Tiger Management analyst, together with Thomas Laffont. What began as a technology-focused hedge fund has grown into a multi-strategy platform spanning public equities, venture capital, growth equity, and private equity, with assets under management reported around $70 billion as of a 2022 disclosure. Its venture and growth vehicles include a dedicated Early Stage Fund (roughly $700 million raised in 2019) and a Growth Fund series, with the fourth growth fund raising $3.5 billion in 2020.

The firm has backed some of the best-known names in global technology, including Anthropic, ByteDance, DoorDash, Instacart, Snap, Spotify, and UiPath, reflecting a broad thesis across AI, consumer internet, and enterprise software. Coatue is known for moving quickly and at scale across both public and private technology markets, often continuing to back companies through growth and pre-IPO rounds after earlier venture investors have established the business.

Investment Thesis

Coatue invests across the full technology lifecycle — from early-stage venture rounds through late-stage growth and public-market positions — with a particular focus on software, internet, artificial intelligence, and consumer technology businesses that can scale globally. The firm's venture and growth teams typically look for large addressable markets and durable competitive advantages, often drawing on Coatue's public-markets research to identify category leaders early and continue backing them through multiple rounds.

Portfolio Companies

Anthropic, ByteDance, DoorDash, Instacart, Snap Inc., Spotify, UiPath, Airtable