Coatue

Coatue is a New York City-based investment firm founded in 1999 that focuses on the global public equity markets, with a particular emphasis on technology, media, and telecommunications sectors. The firm employs a long/short investment strategy to capitalize on market opportunities. Additionally, Coatue Foundation, established in 2011 by the firm's partners, supports early and growth-stage ventures aimed at promoting equal opportunity in America, with notable investments in organizations such as Blue Engine, iMentor, and Year Up.

Sarah Cannon

General Partner

Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner

Kris Fredrickson

Managing Partner

Kai Jiang

Managing Director

Rahul Kishore

Senior Managing Director

Armin Kohan

Investor

Philippe Laffont

Founder and Portfolio Manager

Thomas Laffont

Co-Founder

Jade Lai

Partner

Caryn Marooney

General Partner

Matt Mazzeo

General Partner

Dan Rose

Chairman

Luca Schmid

General Partner

David Schneider

General Partner

Ben Schwerin

General Partner

Sri Viswanath

Partner

Michael Gilroy

General Partner

Past deals in Messaging

Choco

Venture Round in 2023
Choco is a company that has created an ingredient ordering application aimed at connecting restaurants with suppliers globally. The application features a user-friendly interface similar to popular consumer apps, incorporating a messenger-like chat function that facilitates communication between suppliers and restaurants. Additionally, it includes an intuitive ordering list, making the process of ordering ingredients straightforward and efficient. This platform allows restaurants to streamline their ingredient procurement, enhancing their operational efficiency while ensuring easy access to a wide range of suppliers.

Magical

Series A in 2022
Magical is a productivity app that empowers anyone to slash through repetitive tasks in seconds by effortlessly moving data between any site you work with. With a simple keystroke, Magical automates mundane tasks like messaging, data entry, sourcing, and prospecting workflows. Unlike existing automation solutions that are expensive, clunky, and require a technical team to set up, Magical is designed for non-technical users, offering a simple, user-enabled solution that works across any app.

Discord

Series H in 2021
Discord is a communication platform that provides voice, video, and text services for individuals and communities to connect and interact. Initially designed for gamers, it has since expanded its user base to include various groups such as hiking clubs, art communities, and study groups. The platform enables seamless communication through voice-over-internet protocol and instant messaging, accessible on both desktop and mobile devices. This versatility allows users to engage with friends and communities effectively, whether for leisure or collaborative activities, without compromising performance during gaming or other online interactions.

Choco

Series B in 2021
Choco is a company that has created an ingredient ordering application aimed at connecting restaurants with suppliers globally. The application features a user-friendly interface similar to popular consumer apps, incorporating a messenger-like chat function that facilitates communication between suppliers and restaurants. Additionally, it includes an intuitive ordering list, making the process of ordering ingredients straightforward and efficient. This platform allows restaurants to streamline their ingredient procurement, enhancing their operational efficiency while ensuring easy access to a wide range of suppliers.

Attentive

Series E in 2021
Attentive is a leader in conversational commerce, offering a personalized mobile messaging platform that facilitates communication between businesses and consumers. The platform leverages behavioral data to enable brands to send automated, tailored messages throughout the customer lifecycle, including product recommendations, promotions, and real-time customer support. By focusing on SMS communication, Attentive helps entrepreneurs and enterprises engage more effectively with their customers, enhancing relationships and driving sales in the e-commerce and retail sectors.

Shimo Docs

Series C in 2020
Shimo is a cloud-based productivity suite that combines chat, documents, spreadsheets, and more in a simple interface.

Confluent

Series E in 2020
Confluent, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a data platform for real-time data integration, stream processing, and analytics. The company’s offerings include a suite of products based on Apache Kafka, an open-source messaging system that facilitates the collection and processing of data from various sources. Key products include Confluent Cloud, a managed streaming data service; Confluent Operator, which manages Apache Kafka on Kubernetes; KSQL, an open-source streaming SQL engine for interactive queries; and ksqlDB, an event streaming database. Confluent's platform empowers organizations to create a real-time data pipeline, enabling immediate action on data insights. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Confluent serves a range of sectors, including financial services, retail, automotive, and government, and generates most of its revenue from subscriptions and services primarily in the United States. The company also has additional offices in several major cities across the U.S., Europe, and Australia.

Attentive

Series C in 2020
Attentive is a leader in conversational commerce, offering a personalized mobile messaging platform that facilitates communication between businesses and consumers. The platform leverages behavioral data to enable brands to send automated, tailored messages throughout the customer lifecycle, including product recommendations, promotions, and real-time customer support. By focusing on SMS communication, Attentive helps entrepreneurs and enterprises engage more effectively with their customers, enhancing relationships and driving sales in the e-commerce and retail sectors.

Choco

Series A in 2020
Choco is a company that has created an ingredient ordering application aimed at connecting restaurants with suppliers globally. The application features a user-friendly interface similar to popular consumer apps, incorporating a messenger-like chat function that facilitates communication between suppliers and restaurants. Additionally, it includes an intuitive ordering list, making the process of ordering ingredients straightforward and efficient. This platform allows restaurants to streamline their ingredient procurement, enhancing their operational efficiency while ensuring easy access to a wide range of suppliers.

Snap

Series C in 2013
Snap Inc. is a global camera company based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2010. It is best known for its flagship product, Snapchat, a multimedia messaging application that allows users to send photos and videos that disappear after being viewed. The app has gained popularity, particularly among younger users, for its unique features, including filters, lenses, and Stories, as well as augmented reality experiences and gaming. In addition to Snapchat, Snap Inc. offers several other tools such as Snap Map for location sharing, Memories for saving and organizing Snaps, and the Discover platform for accessing content from publishers and creators. The company also produces Spectacles, sunglasses equipped with a built-in camera that enables users to capture content from a first-person perspective. Through its innovative approach to communication and technology, Snap Inc. continues to evolve and expand its offerings in the realms of social media and digital content creation.
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