# Thomas Laffont

> Thomas Laffont is a Series D investor at Coatue backing Software. See 31 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-laffont-02430914/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thomas_laffont
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thomas.laffont.public

Thomas Laffont is a Series D investor at Coatue in Menlo Park focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Thomas Laffont is based out of Atlanta, Georgia, and is the Board of Director of OneTrust. Thomas previously worked at Tipping Point Community as a board member. Thomas Laffont attended Yale College.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$65M |
| Series A | $63M–$135M |
| Series D | $62M–$200M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 35% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 26% |
| SaaS | 6 | 19% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 16% |
| FinTech | 4 | 13% |

69 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 6 | 19% |
| Seed | 5 | 16% |
| Series A | 5 | 16% |
| Series E | 5 | 16% |
| Series C | 4 | 13% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8090 Solutions | 8090 Solutions provides an AI-native software development platform through Software Factory, a system designed to help teams manage the software development lifecycle from planning to deployment. The platform connects business requirements, architecture planning, implementation tasks, testing, and feedback within a shared workspace using AI-drivenworkflows and knowledge management. 8090 Solutions enables organizations to coordinate product, engineering, and business teams while maintaining visibility across software projects. The company’s solutions support custom software development, AI-assisted engineering processes, and enterprise software delivery through structured collaboration between teams and AI agents. | $135M | Series A | Jun 29, 2026 | https://www.8090.ai |
| Sycamore | Sycamore provides an operating system for enterprises to build, deploy, and manage autonomous AI agents. The platform enables organizations to generate production-ready applications, integrations, and agents from natural language input while maintaining oversight and security. Agents operate under a progressive trust framework, allowing them togain autonomy based on performance, with all actions being auditable and governed.The system captures organizational knowledge and supports continuous learning, enabling multi-agent coordination and adaptation over time. It integrates security, compliance, and governance features to ensure controlled and traceable operations. Sycamore also facilitates experimentation with agent behavior, safety, and meta-learning to improve enterprise workflows through automated intelligence. | $65M | Seed | Mar 30, 2026 | https://sycamore.so |
| Sunday | Sunday introduce Memo: a household robot capable of doing everyday chores. | $165M | Series B | Mar 12, 2026 | https://www.sunday.ai/ |
| AppZen | AppZen is an artificial intelligence platform for modern finance teams, helping them to reduce spending, comply with policy, and streamline processes. It automates manual processes, uncovers problems, and optimizes decision-making for enterprises around the globe, including one-fourth of the Fortune 500. The company focuses on areas such as expensereport auditing, accounts payable (AP) automation, and compliance monitoring to help finance teams reduce manual work, avoid errors, and manage risk.The platform combines patented deep learning, computer vision, and semantic analysis with intelligence from thousands of online data sources to understand financial transactions in a business context and make decisions before those transactions happen. | $180M | Series D | Sep 22, 2025 | http://www.appzen.com/ |
| Dirac | Closing the gap between engineering and manufacturing. | $10.7M | Seed | Aug 21, 2025 | https://diracinc.com |
| Persona | Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, which brings trust to online interactions and helps them with age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailoredflows that cover any use case. It handles complex collecting, verifying, and managing sensitive personal information to stay focused on building products. | $200M | Series D | Apr 30, 2025 | https://withpersona.com |
| Cybersyn | Cybersyn is a company that was created for the age of data exchange and quick movement. | $62.9M | Series A | Apr 12, 2023 | https://www.cybersyn.com/ |
| Jasper | Jasper is an AI Content Platform that allows individuals and teams to leverage AI to scale their content strategies. With Jasper, anyone from individual freelancers to creators at enterprise companies can break through writer's block, repackage what they've written, create original images, and adapt their content to different formatsand languages. Jasper has been recognized as "one of America's fastest-growing private companies" by Inc. 5000.Jasper was established on January 11, 2021 by Dave Rogenmoser and John Philip Morgan in Austin, Texas. | $125M | Series A | Oct 18, 2022 | https://jasper.ai |
| Jasper | Jasper is an AI platform specifically designed for marketing, enabling users to generate high-quality content at a significantly faster rate. It automates various marketing processes and enhances brand experience. The company provides tools for creating a wide range of content, including blog posts, social media updates, and marketing copy,leveraging advanced AI technology. It features a text-to-image generator that allows users to create visually appealing, on-brand images based on textual descriptions. | $125M | Series A | Oct 17, 2022 | https://www.jasper.ai |
| Poolit | Poolit is a direct-to-consumer investing platform enabling access to top-tier venture and private equity managers for individual investors. | $5.3M | Seed | May 06, 2022 | https://www.thepoolit.com/ |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Franklin Templeton](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/franklin-templeton-investments) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Coatue

VC Fund · New York, United States

Coatue is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm invests in the public equity markets globally focusing on investments in technology, media, and telecommunications in addition to other sectors. It employs a long or short strategy to make its investments.

5 contacts available at Coatue.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lucas Swisher | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucas-swisher |
| Abhijoy Mitra | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhijoy-mitra-3b50 |
| Abhi Srinivas | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhi-srinivas |
| Alex Swieca | Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-swieca |
| Andy Chen | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-chen-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Thomas Laffont invest in?

Thomas Laffont invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series D and Seed stage. Most of the 31 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 Thomas Laffont invest in?

Thomas Laffont typically joins rounds of $2M–$65M at Seed, $63M–$135M at Series A and $62M–$200M at Series D. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Thomas Laffont's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Thomas Laffont took part in.

### How do I contact Thomas Laffont?

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### When did Thomas Laffont last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Thomas Laffont closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 31 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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