Disruptive 设立 100 亿美元基金 重点押注 AI 与国防
达拉斯投资机构 Disruptive 宣布成立规模达 100 亿美元的旗舰基金，计划向至少 10 家处于后期阶段的 AI 和国防领域公司进行单笔最高 10 亿美元的重仓投资。这是该机构首只盲池基金，也是今年迄今规模最大的融资之一，旨在支持资本密集型的前沿科技赛道。
报道正文
The Dallas-based investment firm Disruptive, whose past bets include Palantir, Airbnb, and Spotify, announced a $10 billion fund to back at least 10 late-stage companies, with checks of up to $1 billion, it said Tuesday.
It’s one of the biggest fundraises of the year so far, aiming to back (what else?!) the capital-intensive fields of AI and defense. The Wall Street Journal first reported earlier this month that the firm was seeking to raise the fund and by then had already secured at least $7.5 billion in capital commitments.
The firm was founded in 2012 by Alex Davis, grandson of billionaire oil magnate Marvin Davis.
This is technically the firm’s first blind-pool fund, meaning investors commit money without knowing which companies it will back. Until now, the firm raised money through deal-by-deal special purpose vehicles. Disruptive has nonetheless made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs. Bloomberg reported that the firm told LPs it has returned more than $6 billion on the roughly $1.9 billion it has put into startups.
According to the Dallas Business Journal, the new vehicle is the largest venture fund raised in Texas history.