What does D. E. Shaw Ventures invest in?
D. E. Shaw Ventures invests most often at Growth and Series D (86% of the rounds on record).
D. E. Shaw Ventures highlights
- 01
7 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Growth and Series D: 86% of its rounds
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Led 2 rounds
What they do
- Type
- Growth equity (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Seed
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first8 appearances
- 2026
7 rounds
- Sept
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- Mar
- Feb
- 2025
1 round
- Jul
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 6 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
15 of 17 we have independently watched raise
AlphaSenseAmperonAndurilAnthropicBasetenCanvaClickHouseDatabricksElevenLabsEonGrafanaLabsMytraOpenAIRampThreatLockerD. E. ShawDiveSolutions
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.