Venture Capital · Profile from Venture Capital Research Companion
Tiger Global Management
The New York "Tiger cub" hedge fund whose private-investment arm turned public-market discipline, emerging-market e-commerce bets and, later, speed and price-insensitive growth checks into one of the largest venture programmes ever, then became the defining cautionary tale of the 2021 bubble before shrinking back to small, concentrated funds.
At a glance
- Founded
- 2001, New York City (as Tiger Technology Management; renamed Tiger Global)
- Founders
- Charles P. "Chase" Coleman III, seeded with ~$25m by Julian Robertson of Tiger Management (reported)
- Headquarters
- New York City (9 West 57th Street); historically small offices or representatives in India, China and elsewhere
- Ownership / structure
- Private partnership; SEC-registered investment adviser running long/short hedge funds, a long-only fund and the Private Investment Partners (PIP) series of closed-end venture/growth funds
- Leadership (2026)
- Chase Coleman (founder; chairs the private-investment committee since Jan 2024); partners including Evan Feinberg, Eric Lane and Griffin Schroeder on the private side; Scott Shleifer (head of private investing 2003–2023) senior adviser from Jan 2024
- AUM / capital raised
- Peak ~$95bn+ firm-wide (late 2021, reported); ~$50bn (2025, reported). PIP funds raised ~$40bn+ cumulatively, including PIP 14 (~$6.7bn), PIP 15 (~$12.7bn) and PIP 16 (~$2.2bn)
- Stage focus
- Historically growth and pre-IPO secondaries; 2019–2022 everything from Series A to late growth; 2024–2026 concentrated growth, with AI as a large theme
- Signature investments
- Facebook and LinkedIn (pre-IPO secondaries), Flipkart, JD.com, Ola, Nubank, Zynga, ByteDance (reported), Revolut (reported); failures and disappointments: FTX, the 2021 vintage broadly (Hinge Health and others marked or exited below entry), Byju's-era Indian marks (reported)
9 deals and moves analysed
Each one gets a full strategy file in the companion: context, the decision, the financing, what happened, and the lesson.
2009
Facebook
Pre-IPO Secondary Purchases
2009
Flipkart
Early Growth Investment
2009
LinkedIn
Pre-IPO Secondary Purchases
2009
Zynga
Late-Stage Growth Round
2010
JD com
Growth Round
2012
Ola
Series A
2015
Nubank
Series B
2021
FTX
Growth Rounds
2021
Hinge Health
Series E