Tiger Global partner John Curtius to leave firm
John Curtius, a partner at Tiger Global who oversaw a flurry of venture capital investments in software and business service companies over the past five years, is preparing to leave the firm, a high-profile departure that deepens the turmoil at the once high-flying hedge fund.
Curtius oversaw some of Tiger Global’s prominent software investments such as Databricks, Toast and Snowflake. He will leave the firm in 2023, said two people familiar with the matter.
Curtius, Tiger Global’s founder Chase Coleman and partner Scott Shleifer had begun discussing Curtius’s exit over the summer, according to two people familiar with the matter. Curtius plans to raise a new fund focused on early-stage software companies in 2023, said a source familiar with the matter.
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Antoine Gara
