D. E. Shaw & Co.
VC Fund
New York, United States
D. E. Shaw & Co. is an investment and technology development firm. The firm invests in both public and private markets, leveraging technology in its investment strategies.
- Total investments:
- 75
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 37%
- Fund size:
- $27M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries D. E. Shaw & Co. invests in
Stages D. E. Shaw & Co. invests in
Countries D. E. Shaw & Co. invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 11 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series B
- $3M–$37M
- Series C
- $3.9M–$100M
- Series D
- $4M–$750M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 17 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 12 (16%)
- Biotechnology 6 (8%)
- Information Technology 6 (8%)
- Analytics 5 (7%)
Stage
- Series B 17 (23%)
- Series C 12 (16%)
- Series D 9 (12%)
- Series A 7 (9%)
- Funding Round 4 (5%)
Country
- United States 44 (59%)
- Israel 2 (3%)
- Sweden 2 (3%)
- China 1 (1%)
- India 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Edwin Jager
Managing Director & Head of Fundamental Equities
|
Managing Director & Head of Fundamental Equities | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Lou Salkind
Managing Director and Vice Chairman
|
Managing Director and Vice Chairman | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Andre Turenne
Senior Vice President
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Senior Vice President | Total investments: 26 | Find email | |
Bryan Martin
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Charles Ardai
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $1.9B / Series G / Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice. | $300M / Secondary Market / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| Venture Global LNG is a low-cost producer of liquefied natural gas pipelines. Working with a global LNG technology vendor, Venture Global intends to configure a 10.0 MTPA LNG facility utilizing efficient, low-cost, mid-scale LNG liquefaction technology. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia. | Post-IPO Secondary / Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing, and distributing food and non-food products to restaurants, healthcare, and educational facilities, lodging establishments, and other customers around the world. | $1B / Post-IPO Equity / Aug 21, 2026 | ||
| ThreatLocker is a cybersecurity company that specializes in endpoint security and application whitelisting solutions. ThreatLocker is designed so that everyone from businesses to government agencies to academic institutions can directly control exactly what runs on their networks. Based at our Orlando, Florida, USA headquarters and servingcustomers around the globe, the team at ThreatLocker® envisions a future in which all organizations can chart their own course free from the influence of cyber criminals and the damage their incursions cause. | $190M / Series F / Jul 29, 2026 | ||
| Baseten provides a platform for training, deploying, and serving artificial intelligence models in production environments. It supports open-source, fine-tuned, and custom models, converting them into API endpoints with capabilities such as autoscaling, observability, and optimized model serving. The platform manages infrastructure componentsincluding containerization, GPU scheduling across multiple cloud providers, and performance optimizations to support large-scale inference workloads. Baseten also offers preconfigured model APIs and deployment options that can run either on its managed cloud service or within a customer's own environment. Its tools are designed to help developers build, manage, and scale AI applications while maintaining flexibility in how models are hosted and executed. | $1.5B / Series F / Jun 22, 2026 | ||
| AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that allows professionals to make critical decisions with confidence and speed. The company has nearly 2,000 enterprise clients, including financial institutions that use the platform to inform their business decisions. AlphaSense is trusted by over 1,800 enterprise customers, including a majority of theS&P 500. | $350M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 03, 2026 | ||
| OpenAI builds generative language models, multimodal systems, and image creation software accessible via web interfaces and application programming interfaces. Its platforms enable text generation, conversational interactions, software code creation, and automated data analysis across various professional and creative tasks. Additionally, the entity conducts research into artificial intelligence safety and operates software infrastructure designed to host and scale digital tools. | $122B / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 27, 2026 | ||
| Mytra is a robotics company developing software-defined warehouse robotics solutions to automate industrial tasks in logistics. The company produces a novel solution for storing and moving materials in a three-dimensional grid. The matrix lattice for the storage grid can be built quickly and easily from simple, modular pieces of hardware, whichtakes a lot of the technical debt off the customer and can be shaped to fit whatever space customers have. | $120M / Series C / Jan 15, 2026 | ||
| Neural Concept is an innovative AI platform focused on transforming engineering product design through advanced 3D deep learning algorithms. By integrating AI directly into design and simulation processes, Neural Concept enables engineering teams to shorten development timelines from months to days, enhance product performance in terms ofefficiency, safety, and sustainability, and facilitate the scaling of AI adoption without the need for expensive and lengthy integration. | $100M / Series C / Dec 18, 2025 | ||
| See all 75 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does D. E. Shaw & Co. invest in?
D. E. Shaw & Co. invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 75 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does D. E. Shaw & Co. invest in?
D. E. Shaw & Co. typically joins rounds of $3M–$37M at Series B, $3.9M–$100M at Series C and $4M–$750M at Series D. These are whole funding-round sizes, not D. E. Shaw & Co.'s own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds D. E. Shaw & Co. took part in.
How do I contact D. E. Shaw & Co.?
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Who are the partners at D. E. Shaw & Co.?
The team at D. E. Shaw & Co. includes Edwin Jager (Managing Director & Head of Fundamental Equities), Lou Salkind (Managing Director and Vice Chairman) and Andre Turenne (Senior Vice President), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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