Historically most hedge funds focused on public markets and large private offerings. We are seeing a growing number of fund managers invest earlier in private companies.

This is by no means an exhaustive list but a few that we have focused on:

Hedge Funds that Invest in Seed

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Tiger Global

Tiger Global Management, LLC is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor. It provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. The firm launches and manages hedge funds for its clients. The firm employs long/short strategy to make its investments. It uses fundamental analysis to create its portfolio. The firm employs a combination of in-house and external research to make its investments. It also manages private equity funds. For private equity investments, it specializes in investing in early stage companies and start-ups. It also invests in public markets as well. Several of the funds that have spun out have been named Tiger Cubs. Chase Coleman's fund has invested in Survey Monkey as one example.

SAC Capital

SAC Capital Advisors is a hedge fund founded in 1992. The firm is owned by its founder Steven A. Cohen. Mr. Cohen and his business partners are S.A.C. Capital's largest investors, accounting for an estimated 60% of the firm's assets. The firm's subsidiaries include San Francisco-based Canvas Capital (Tech & Asia), Stamford-based CR Intrinsic Investors (Equity) and NY-based Sigma Capital Management (Sector-focused US Equity & Debt). London-based S.A.C. Global Investors LLP, formerly Walter Capital Management, is an independent investment manager affiliated with SAC. S.A.C. Global invests principally in non-US equity and debt securities.

Tudor

The Tudor group of companies ("Tudor Group") is a group of affiliated entities engaged in the management of client and proprietary assets. Paul Tudor Jones II formed Tudor Investment Corporation, the first of the Tudor Group companies, in 1980. The Tudor Group manages assets across fixed income, currency, equity and commodity asset classes and related derivative instruments in the global markets for an international clientele. The investment strategies of the Tudor Group include, among others, discretionary global macro, quantitative global macro (managed futures), quantitative equity systems and discretionary equity long/short.

Raptor

Raptor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Raptor Group Holdings. They partner with and deploy capital to early-stage, market disrupting technology and media companies. They seek founders who are looking for strategic partners to grow their businesses in music, advertising, branding, e-commerce, digital media, broadcasting, content creation, sports, social gaming, data, travel, hospitality, and entertainment, big data; viral growth loops; location based services.

Raptor Group Holdings primarily invests in public and private equities across a broad spectrum of phases, sectors, geographies and asset classes. Clients include high-net-worth individuals, family offices, funds of hedge funds, retail platforms, private banks, pensions, foundations, endowments, entrepreneurs, private organizations and properties. The vision was developed by founder, James J. Pallotta, who launched Raptor Group in 2009. As a 20+ year veteran in the alternative investment space, Mr. Pallotta built a successful career investing across the spectrum in public and private equities throughout various market cycles.

Raptor Ventures offers a contact page to: Invest or receive investment. 

DE Shaw

THE D. E. SHAW GROUP is a global investment and technology development firm with more than 1,000 employees, approximately $33 billion in investment capital as of July 1, 2014, and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Founded in 1988. 

DE Shaw offers a contact page to: Invest.