According to available information, the American investment firm Tiger Global Management, LLC plans to sell private companies valued at hundreds of millions of dollars into the secondary market.
From a report published by The Financial Times on Sunday, the tech-based investment management company has hired an advisor to explore and study the possibilities of selling around $40 billion of the company to private companies.
No further development in the area has been reported, and the talks about the new plan are only in its initial stage. It is also reported that the procedure and upcoming processes will be difficult and complicated, considering the difficulty in trying to value the companies.
Tiger Global, the New York-based investment management company, is currently managed by Chase Coleman. Coleman is an American billionaire, and he is also the founder of Tiger Global.
Tiger Global is one of the biggest firms in the business and is said to generate considerable revenue each year, making its founder one of the richest men in the world.
The company has stakes in some of the largest and best-performing companies in the world. Tiger Global has shares in companies like Stripe(STRIP), which is a payment tech firm, and in the Chinese company ByteDance(BDNCE).
Bytedance is the parent company that owns the popular short video application Tik Tok. It also has shares in the American software company Databricks.
Even though the news about the new plans for the company was reported by The Financial Times, Tiger Global has not yet made any official statements about the news or any such developments that are being planned at the company. A spokesperson for the New York-based company declined to make a comment when asked about the report by The Financial Times.
While Tiger Global is one of the biggest names in the field, the company is said to be going through a rough patch lately, like most of its peers. Analysts and experts suggest that the company is currently going through the most challenging period that the business has faced in years. Just like the majority of its peers, Tiger Global also made large investments in startups.
As the amount that they spent on these startups was considerably large, it also had an effect on the value of the company. The large investments helped the company in increasing its value.
But the result was the opposite of what was expected by the company. The investments made by the company got burned in the tech swoon of last year. Following the events, the company decided to bring down its venture investments by around 33%. This resulted in the decline of the company’s value of about $23 billion.
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The news about the mark own of Tiger Global in terms of its investment values was reported by Wall Street Journal in March.
The report about the company’s plan to enter the secondary market by The Financial Times came after the report of the Wall Street Journal.
It was through a report published by Bloomberg in November 2022 that the move of Tiger Global to cut down the value of its private funds by almost a quarter was revealed. The change also helped the company to a $42 billion reduction in its assets.
Entering the secondary market is one of the most preferred ways for investors to exit, as only very few companies are going public recently. There are many reasons attributed to the seeking of liquidity by them.
Different reasons like looking for a chance to provide distributions to clients, funding the add-on investments to the existing portfolio of the company, or it could be even ditching the companies that they do not believe bounce back as fast as they want to.
As for Tiger Global, the company has made investments in many different venture-backed companies, like ByteDance, Snyk, Chime, and Discord.
Tiger Global Management, LLC is a New York-based investment firm. The company mainly focuses on areas and industries like software, consumer, financial technology, and such.
The company was founded by Chase Coleman III in 2001, and during the initial days of the company, it operated as a hedge fund to invest in the public equity market. It was under the help of Scott Shleifer that the company expanded into investing in the private equity market. The company faced significant losses in 2022.
In June 2022, the company experienced a significant loss of around 52% in the company’s hedge fund, and it also experienced a loss of around 62% in value since the beginning of the year. The loss that the company experienced last year was described as ‘one of the largest ever’ by the Wall Street Journal.
Right now, the company plans new changes in its operations, and even though there has been no official confirmation from any official sources, Tiger Global is said to enter secondary markets with the private company stakes that the company owns.
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