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What does Rizvi Traverse Management invest in?
Rizvi Traverse Management invests most often at Series C and Series D (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Technology.
Rizvi Traverse Management highlights
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2 rounds on record
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Mostly Series C and Series D: 100% of its rounds
What they do
Private Equity & Growth CapitalFrom their own website
- Type
- Growth equity
- Cheque size
- $25M – $1.0B as they say
- Stages
- Series BGrowth
- Sectors
- Technology
- Based in
- Birmingham, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first2 appearances
- 2013
1 round
- Dec
- 2012
1 round
- Sept
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
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration5 named
APAudrey Price DimarzoCCO and General CounseliForm ADV
JAJohn Angelo GiampetroniCOOiForm ADV
KLKaren Louise BlanchardVice President of OperationsiForm ADV
SRSuhail Raza RizviManaging Director of Manager of FileriFiling they signed
TETodd Edward KnowlesCFOiForm ADV
We also hold 8 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 the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$1.3Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Rizvi Traverse Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 160733
Funds on its Form ADV
31 private funds, $279M in gross assets · filed Sept 2024
Venture 18Private equity 12Fund of funds 1
- RT SPX Investment LLCVenture3 investors$132M
- RT AM Co-Invest II LLCVenture3 investors$26M
- RT IC Investment LLCVenture9 investors$25M
- RT Angels Investment I LLCVenture14 investors$17M
- RT Angels Investment IIA LLCVenture2 investors$10M
- RT IC Investment III LLCVenture7 investors$9.8M
- Rizvi Energy II LLCVenture5 investors$8.1M
- RT Angels LLCFund of funds4 investors$8.1M
- RT IC Investment II LLCVenture2 investors$8.0M
- Rizvi Opportunistic Equity Fund II L.P.Private equity16 investors$7.1M
And 21 more on the filing.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
12 of 22 we have independently watched raise
BlaizeFigureAIFlipboardGildedInstacartPinterestPipePlanetSandboxAQSnapchatSquareUberDeutsche ReGasI ICMJ JawboneK Key AirPlayboyR RealDS SESACS Summit EntertainmentV VesselZ Ziegler Investments
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.
Companies it bought
Acquisitions by the firm itself
RealD$55MNov 2015