Bridgewater Associates

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an employee-owned hedge fund sponsor based in Westport, Connecticut. Founded in 1975, the firm manages approximately $120 billion in global investments for a diverse range of institutional clients, including pension plans, pooled investment vehicles, corporations, government entities, university endowments, and charitable foundations. Bridgewater specializes in launching and managing hedge funds, employing fundamental analysis to build its investment portfolios. With a workforce of around 1,200 employees, the firm focuses on investments in public equity and fixed income markets worldwide.

Daniel S. Bernstein

Director of Research

Giselle Francesca Wagner

MD

2 past transactions

IronNet Cybersecurity is uniquely positioned the gap between traditional cybersecurity approaches and this rapidly evolving threat grows wider. Its mission is to deliver the power and resources of Collective Defense so that any company, organization, or public entity can defend better as part of a collaborative ecosystem with shared knowledge and vetted alerts in real-time. IronNet was founded in 2014 by General (Ret.) Keith Alexander- former head of the NSA and Commander U.S. Cyber Command.

Otter.ai

Series A in 2017
Otter.ai creates technologies and products that make important information from voice conversations including meetings, interviews, and lectures instantly accessible and actionable. The company's award winning product, Otter Voice Notes, is used by business professionals, journalists and students to generate rich notes that can be easily searched and shared. Otter is based on proprietary technologies for speech recognition, speaker separation, speaker ID, and keyword / topic extraction. The company was founded by successful repeat entrepreneur Sam Liang and fellow engineering PhD Yun Fu. Investors We are proud to be supported by some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists who were early investors in Tesla, SpaceX, Slack, and Twitter. Additionally, we are backed by legendary angel investor David Cheriton, who provided the initial capital to Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start Google.