Thomas Laffont

Co-Founder, Coatue Management

📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
13
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Board Member
Mar 2023
OneTrust is the leading AI-Ready Governance platform. More than 14,000 customers globally, including over half of the Fortune 500, rely on OneTrust to accelerate innovation while ensuring responsible data use. To learn more, visit www.onetrust.com
Board Observer
Oct 2022
Jasper is the purpose-built generative AI platform for marketing. Built on a foundation of enterprise trust, Jasper deeply understands marketing, delivering advanced brand control and an intuitive AI toolkit that allow marketers to build apps and workflows to accelerate their success. Looking to connect with our team? Shoot us a DM 👋
Board Member
Jul 2022
Cybersyn is a DaaS (data-as-a-service) company, whose mission is to make the worlds economic data transparent to governments, businesses, and entrepreneurs and enable a new generation of decision makers.
Board Member
2021
Weights & Biases: the AI developer platform. Build better models faster, fine-tune LLMs, develop GenAI applications with confidence, all in one system of record developers are excited to use. W&B Models is the MLOps solution used by foundation model builders and enterprises who are training, fine-tuning, and deploying models into production. W&B Weave is the LLMOps solution for software developers who want a lightweight but powerful toolset to help them track and evaluate LLM applications. Weights & Biases is trusted by over a 1,000 companies to productionize AI at scale including teams at OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA, Cohere, Toyota, Square, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Sign up for a 30-day free trial today at http://wandb.me/trial.
Board Observer
2021
At Calendly, our vision is to take the work out of connecting with others so you can accomplish more. Our scheduling automation platform helps individuals, teams, and organizations globally automate meetings by removing the back and forth with scheduling. Our platform enables companies to close deals, hire candidates, build relationships, and grow their business — faster. More than 20 million users across 230 countries use Calendly to simplify meetings and collaborate more effectively and efficiently.
Board Observer
2020
Were bringing video messaging to work and empowering everyone to communicate more effectively, wherever they are. In October 2023, we joined forces with Atlassian to champion remote-first, asynchronous work by empowering customers to make the impossible possible with video messaging. For more information, visit www.loom.com.
Board Observer
2020
Starburst was founded by the inventors of OS Trino so that data-driven companies could have a full-featured open data lakehouse platform powered by the #1 SQL analytics engine. Our end-to-end analytics platform includes the capabilities needed to discover, organize, consume, and share data with industry-leading price-performance for cloud and on-premises workloads. We believe the lakehouse should be the center of gravity, but support accessing data outside the lake when needed. With Starburst, teams can access more complete data, run scalable analytics, lower the cost of infrastructure, use tools best suited to their needs, and avoid vendor lock-in. Trusted by companies like Apache Corporation, Comcast, Doordash, DBS Bank, and VMware, Starburst helps you make better decisions faster on all data. Join us! -- Our company was founded in an unusual way; with customers and revenue from the beginning! Our growth is already ahead of some of the most successful software start-ups, and we don’t plan on slowing down. We believe our opportunity is huge. Every large company in the world suffers from a data silo problem. Traditional data warehouse products approach the problem with old solutions that breed inefficiency and ultimately can’t help business analysts run fast analytics on all their data. This prevents the business from making better decisions to improve their company’s performance. Starburst provides a modern solution that addresses these data silo & speed of access problems. Starburst helps enterprises harness the value of Trino, the fastest distributed query engine available today, by adding the tools and 24x7 support that meet the needs for big data access at scale. Ultimately, Starburst helps organizations run analytics anywhere to make better business decisions. We’re building a team of all-stars: engineers, customer success, sales, and marketing pros who are at the top of their game. If this sounds like you, check out our open roles: starburst.io/careers
Board Member
2019
ScaleFactor is on a mission to automate the painful, time consuming tasks that burden business owners, entrepreneurs and executives. We've developed a smart finance and accounting platform that enables businesses to operate in real time with automated bookkeeping, proactive alerts, at-a-glance performance metrics and more. Our trusted accounting and finance experts review monthly financials, provide delightful support and help users with their toughest financial challenges. ScaleFactor delivers peace of mind so users can confidently control their operations and strategically grow their business. Learn more about ScaleFactor's business solutions at www.scalefactor.com To learn more about our culture and see up-to-date job postings, visit https://www.scalefactor.com/careers/
Board Observer
2019
We’re hiring! Check out our current openings at https://www.appzen.com/careers/. AppZen is the leader in autonomous spend-to-pay software. Its patented artificial intelligence software accurately and efficiently processes information from thousands of data sources so that organizations can better understand enterprise spend at scale to make smarter business decisions. It seamlessly integrates with existing accounts payable, expense, and card workflows to read, understand, and make real-time decisions based on your unique spend profile, leading to faster processing times and fewer instances of fraud or duplicate spend. Global enterprises, including one-third of the Fortune 500, use AppZen’s invoice, expense and card transaction solutions to replace manual finance processes and accelerate the speed and agility of their businesses. To learn more, visit us at www.appzen.com. Request an exclusive demo: https://www.appzen.com/request-a-demo
Board Observer
2018
Persona helps businesses manage KYC/AML/KYB programs, fight fraud, and build trust by automating any identity-related use case with our flexible identity infrastructure. For example, we help Coursera verify learners’ identities before delivering course credentials and Brex comply with strict international KYC/AML regulations. Beyond securely collecting and verifying user information such as PII, government IDs, and selfies, our platform also provides flexible case review and orchestration tools to help businesses streamline and automate all their identity operations — from setting custom rules to ingesting third-party data and triggering external actions. In short, Persona handles the complexities of securely collecting, verifying, and managing sensitive personal information, so you can stay focused on building your product.
Board Observer
2017
Domino powers model-driven business for the world’s most advanced enterprises, including over 20% of the Fortune 100. Our Enterprise MLOps platform speeds up the development and deployment of data science work while increasing collaboration and governance, to scale data science into a competitive advantage. Our platform enables thousands of data scientists to develop better medicines, grow more productive crops, adapt risk models to major economic shifts, build better cars, improve customer support, or simply recommend the best purchase to make at the right time. Domino is backed by leading venture capital firms: Sequoia Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Coatue Management, Dell Technologies Capital, Highland Capital Partners, In-Q-Tel, and Zetta Venture Partners.
Board Observer
2017
Cerebras Systems is the worlds fastest AI inference. We are powering the future of generative AI. We’re a team of pioneering computer architects, deep learning researchers, and engineers building a new class of AI supercomputers from the ground up. Our flagship system, Cerebras CS-3, is powered by the Wafer Scale Engine 3—the world’s largest and fastest AI processor. CS-3s are effortlessly clustered to create the largest AI supercomputers on Earth, while abstracting away the complexity of traditional distributed computing. From sub-second inference speeds to breakthrough training performance, Cerebras makes it easier to build and deploy state-of-the-art AI—from proprietary enterprise models to open-source projects downloaded millions of times. Here’s what makes our platform different: 🔦 Sub-second reasoning – Instant intelligence and real-time responsiveness, even at massive scale ⚡ Blazing-fast inference – Up to 100x performance gains over traditional AI infrastructure 🧠 Agentic AI in action – Models that can plan, act, and adapt autonomously 🌍 Scalable infrastructure – Built to move from prototype to global deployment without friction Cerebras solutions are available in the Cerebras Cloud or on-prem, serving leading enterprises, research labs, and government agencies worldwide. 👉 Learn more: www.cerebras.ai Join us: https://cerebras.net/careers/
Board Observer
2014
Snap is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.
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Board Member
Mar 2023
OneTrust is the leading AI-Ready Governance platform. More than 14,000 customers globally, including over half of the Fortune 500, rely on OneTrust to accelerate innovation while ensuring responsible data use. To learn more, visit www.onetrust.com
2022
Board Observer
Oct 2022
Jasper is the purpose-built generative AI platform for marketing. Built on a foundation of enterprise trust, Jasper deeply understands marketing, delivering advanced brand control and an intuitive AI toolkit that allow marketers to build apps and workflows to accelerate their success. Looking to connect with our team? Shoot us a DM 👋
Board Member
Jul 2022
Cybersyn is a DaaS (data-as-a-service) company, whose mission is to make the worlds economic data transparent to governments, businesses, and entrepreneurs and enable a new generation of decision makers.
2021
Board Member
2021
Weights & Biases: the AI developer platform. Build better models faster, fine-tune LLMs, develop GenAI applications with confidence, all in one system of record developers are excited to use. W&B Models is the MLOps solution used by foundation model builders and enterprises who are training, fine-tuning, and deploying models into production. W&B Weave is the LLMOps solution for software developers who want a lightweight but powerful toolset to help them track and evaluate LLM applications. Weights & Biases is trusted by over a 1,000 companies to productionize AI at scale including teams at OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA, Cohere, Toyota, Square, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Sign up for a 30-day free trial today at http://wandb.me/trial.
Board Observer
2021
At Calendly, our vision is to take the work out of connecting with others so you can accomplish more. Our scheduling automation platform helps individuals, teams, and organizations globally automate meetings by removing the back and forth with scheduling. Our platform enables companies to close deals, hire candidates, build relationships, and grow their business — faster. More than 20 million users across 230 countries use Calendly to simplify meetings and collaborate more effectively and efficiently.
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