The Growth capital stage is getting crowded, family offices, Funds, Hedge Funds....
In the U.S., Tiger Global and T. Rowe Price are leading the charge among hedge funds and mutual funds investing in tech startups. Here's how 2014 spiked. mutual fund managers were increasingly competing for and winning later-stage deals in the venture investing universe. And 2014 saw that activity spike, as asset managers jumped into companies including AirBnB, Cloudera, Dropbox and Uber among dozens of others. These asset management firms have become among the most active (late-stage) investors in the billion-dollar club and frequent drivers of the largest financing deals in tech today. But while the boom in hedge fund and mutual fund tech investing is readily noticeable, we wanted to use CB Insights data to highlight just how busy the funds have become and who among the batch were more active than the rest. The data below.
https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/hedge-fund-mutual-fund-tech-startups/