From Tiger Global's fat checks to talk of a 'broken' IPO market, the Tiger Cubs are back in love with private deals

Cătălin Roșioru

The Tiger Cubs are on the hunt — and they're ready to pounce on private market opportunities. Big-name asset managers such as Tiger Global, Coatue, and D1 — a group collectively known as Tiger Cubs, given their connections to the late Julian Robertson's Tiger Management — are back to investing in private markets, talking about start-ups, and fundraising for non-public strategies. These managers, once burned by the 2022 tech market rout, when soaring interest rates and plunging valuations forced