Coatue is an American technology-focused investment manager led by founder and portfolio manager Philippe Laffont.
Coatue invests in public and private markets with a focus on technology, media, telecommunications. the consumer and healthcare sectors.
Coatue has offices in
New York City
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,
Menlo Park, California
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,
London
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,
Shanghai
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and
Hong Kong
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.
History
Philippe Laffont graduated from
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
in 1991 in computer science. He worked as an analyst for
McKinsey & Company
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from 1992 to 1994 in Madrid, Spain. After working as an independent consultant, he joined
Tiger Management
Tiger Management Corp., also known as "The Tiger Fund", is an American hedge fund and family office founded by Julian Robertson. The fund began investing in 1980 and closed in March 2000/01. It continues to operate today in direct public equit ...
LLC as a research analyst in 1996, focusing on telecommunications stocks.
In 1999, Laffont founded Coatue making him a member of the
Tiger Cubs employees who founded their own hedge funds.
[ Coatue launched its first hedge fund in 1999 with $45 million in capital. Coatue manages this fund in addition to others. Thomas Laffont is the firm’s co-founder and leads Coatue’s private equity investing.][
Coatue's annual "East Meets West" conference features tech entrepreneurs from the U.S. and China.
]
Funds
Investments
Some of Coatue's notable investments include the following:
* Airtable
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Airtable is a spreadsheet-database hybrid, with the features of a database but applied to a spr ...
* Ant Financial
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* Anaplan
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Anaplan's products are used by ove ...
* ByteDance
ByteDance Ltd. () is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
Founded by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo and a team of others in 2012, ByteDance developed the video-sharing social network ...
* Chime
* Dapper Labs
* Databricks
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History
Da ...
* DoorDash
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With a 56% ma ...
* Instacart
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* Meituan
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* OpenSea
* Snap Inc.
* SoFi
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*Sofi (mascot), the Mascot for 2010 ISF Women's World Championship
*Sofi Marinova (born 1975), Bulgarian singer
SOFI may refer to:
* Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore
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* Spotify
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* Abacus.AI
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Description
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References
External links
* https://www.coatue.com (Company Website)
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