This Is The Secret Silicon Valley Family Office Of Zuckerberg & Co.

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Have you ever been wondering where and how the money of Silicon Valley’s tech elite is invested? This article might have the answer for you by introducing Iconiq Capital. Founded by the South African Divesh Makan, Iconiq manages funds for tech billionaires like Facebook founders Dustin Moskovitz and Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey or LinkedIn’s founder Reid Hoffman. If you’re looking for single family offices you should check our list of single family offices in the United States.

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Venture Capital Focused Investment Approach

Iconiq specializes in venture capital rounds for the world’s most relevant startups. Famous Investment include the pre-IPO rounds of Alibaba, Flipkart or Pluralsights $135M Series B round. According to Forbes magazine, Iconiq relies on its network. Startup founders are invited to dinners with billionaires, quarterly networking events are taking place. The charm of being even close to the circle of the world’s most important tech CEOs is easy to understand, as well as the business perspective of it.

From Goldman Sachs To Founding A Multi Billion Family Office

After graduating from the South African university of Natal and receiving an M.B.A. of the prestigious Wharton business school, Iconiq-CEO Makan hired at Goldman Sachs’ San Francisco office. He got to know Zuckerberg shortly after he moved Facebook’s office to San Francisco and worked hard to get integrated into the network of the Valley’s tech founders. In 2008, Makan left Goldman and joined Morgan Stanley. In 2011 Makan finally left Morgan Stanley and created Iconiq. While the firm is now closed for new clients, it is still actively closing new investments, like a recent $100M round for data governance company Collibra.

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