# Coatue Management

> Coatue Management is a technology-focused investment manager that operates across venture, growth, tactical private capital and public equities. Founded in 1999 by Philippe Laffont and later expanded with co-founder Thomas Laffont, the firm pairs fundamental research with proprietary data infrastructure, including Mosaic and the Coatue Brain, to study companies from startup formation through public-market maturity.

- **Founded:** 1999
- **Headquarters:** New York City, United States
- **Founders:** Philippe Laffont (Founder and Portfolio Manager), Thomas Laffont (Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Privates)
- **Team size:** 182 global employees in Coatue’s Q2 2026 CTEK presentation; a July 2026 Form ADV-derived profile reports 199 full-time staff.
- **Products:** Venture, Growth, Tactical, Public Equity, Coatue Innovative Strategies Fund (CTEK)
- **Notable:** Expanded from a 1999 public-equities hedge fund into venture, growth, tactical and crossover strategies., Built a private-company portfolio that includes Anthropic, OpenAI, Databricks, Stripe, SpaceX and Cursor as of 2026., Reported approximately $92.7 billion in discretionary regulatory assets under management in its 2026 Form ADV.

## Products & services

- **Venture** — Early-stage investing that uses Coatue’s network and research to identify major technology trends.
- **Growth** — Late-stage private investing in potential disruptors and next-generation platform companies.
- **Tactical** — Creative debt and equity capital solutions tailored to a company’s financing needs.
- **Public Equity** — Long/short and long-biased public-equity strategies grounded in technology-sector research and risk management.
- **Coatue Innovative Strategies Fund (CTEK)** — A continuously offered interval fund providing eligible investors a mix of public and private innovation investments.
- **Mosaic and Coatue Brain** — Internal research, modeling, monitoring and AI-assisted knowledge systems used by Coatue investment professionals; these are not sold as standalone software.

## Achievements

- Expanded from a 1999 public-equities hedge fund into venture, growth, tactical and crossover strategies.
- Built a private-company portfolio that includes Anthropic, OpenAI, Databricks, Stripe, SpaceX and Cursor as of 2026.
- Reported approximately $92.7 billion in discretionary regulatory assets under management in its 2026 Form ADV.
- Built Mosaic, a proprietary research and portfolio-monitoring system, and launched the generative-AI-enabled Coatue Brain in 2023.
- Established the East Meets West conference as a recurring gathering for technology founders and executives.
- Launched CTEK with seed capital on May 5, 2025, creating a registered route into a public-private innovation portfolio.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Coatue published an update on its partnership with Databricks.
- **2026-06** — The firm highlighted Supabase’s role in the agentic software era and Thomas Laffont appeared at the All-In Liquidity Summit.
- **2026-05** — Coatue said it was tripling down on Anthropic and co-leading a new financing round.
- **2026-04** — Coatue published research on AI expanding across the technology stack.
- **2026-02** — The firm announced a partnership with Anthropic focused on enterprise intelligence.
- **2026-01** — Coatue announced an investment partnership with customer-experience AI company Decagon.
- **2025-10** — NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang gave an original DGX-1 to Coatue’s New York technology museum.

## Links

- Website: https://www.coatue.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coatue
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/coatuemgmt
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CoatueManagement

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Last updated: 2026-08-16