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Comment: Non-independent hype and apparent COI. 118.149.85.193 (talk) 20:23, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
DFJ Growth.,[1] is a venture capital firm that invests in disruptive technology companies at the growth stage.
The firm focuses on partnering with founders and their companies at the scaling and hyper-growth phase of development. Investment focus areas include in AI, big data, climate, creator economy, defense, enterprise IT, life tech, security, smart systems, and space.
History[edit]
The firm was founded in 2005[2] by John Fisher, Randy Glein, Barry Schuler, and Mark Bailey. Additional partners on the investment team include Sam Fort, Jocelyn Kinsey and Justin Kao[3].
Notable companies in the firm’s portfolio are: Anaplan (NYSE: PLAN)[4], Box (NYSE: BOX)[5] Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN)[6], OpenAI[7], Patreon[8], SpaceX[9], Stripe[10], Sumo Logic (NASDAQ: SUMO)[11], Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA)[12], Twitter (NYSE:TWTR)[13], and Unity (NYSE: U)[14] The firm has approximately $3 billion under management. The firm closed its fourth core fund, DFJ Growth Fund IV ($1 billion), in 2021.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ "DFJ Growth Venture Capital". DFJ Growth. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "About - DFJ Growth Venture Capital". DFJ Growth. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "People - DFJ Growth Venture Capital". DFJ Growth. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "DFJ Growth Leads $100M Series D for Anaplan". Pitchbook.com. Pitchbook. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Box, Foursquare, SpaceX Backer DFJ Growth Raises $470M For Later-Stage Investments". TechCrunch.com. TechCrunch. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, and More". Coinbase.com. Coinbase. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "As spend management space heats up, Brex and Rho turn to AI startups to help power new products". TechCrunch. 2 August 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Patreon raises $60 million from Thrive, Index, DFJ Growth - Vox". Vox.com. Vox. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid (5 May 2014). "Box, Foursquare, SpaceX Backer DFJ Growth Raises $470M For Later-Stage Investments". TechCrunch.com. TechCrunch.
- ^ a b Glein, Randy (17 December 2021). "Fueling the Innovation Economy @ DFJ Growth". Medium.com. Medium. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Glein, Randy (9 June 2015). "Sumo Logic — Taming the Tsunami of Machine Data". Medium.com. Medium. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Primack, Dan. "DFJ Growth Raising $500 Million for New Fund". Fortune.com. Fortune.
- ^ "Portfolio - DFJ Growth". DFJgrowth.com. DFJ Growth. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Matney, Lucas (13 July 2016). "Unity raises $181M monster round at a reported $1.5B valuation". TechCrunch.com. Tech Crunch. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
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