Baillie Gifford
Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
Edinburgh, Scotland
Countries of investment
- United States
- China
- Japan
- Taiwan
- South Korea
- India
- Vietnam
- Germany
- Belgium
- Finland
- France
- Ireland
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- Spain
- Brazil
- United Kingdom
Investment stages
- Growth
Industries
- Technology
- Healthcare
- Consumer
- Financial Services
- Industrials
About
Baillie Gifford is an Edinburgh-headquartered global asset manager founded in 1908, with over £230 billion in assets under management and a unique partnership structure owned entirely by its 58 working partners. Since 2012, the firm has invested over $9 billion into more than 140 private companies, pioneering patient late-stage private investing through vehicles like the Schiehallion Fund. Their private portfolio includes many of the world's largest private companies — SpaceX, ByteDance, Stripe, Databricks, Anthropic, Epic Games, Tenstorrent, Vinted, and Wayve — alongside prior holdings taken public such as Alibaba, Airbnb, Spotify, and Tempus AI.
Baillie Gifford is an Edinburgh-headquartered global asset manager founded in 1908, with over £230 billion in assets under management and a unique partnership structure owned entirely by its 58 working partners. Since 2012, the firm has invested over $9 billion into more than 140 private companies, pioneering patient late-stage private investing through vehicles like the Schiehallion Fund. Their private portfolio includes many of the world's largest private companies — SpaceX, ByteDance, Stripe, Databricks, Anthropic, Epic Games, Tenstorrent, Vinted, and Wayve — alongside prior holdings taken public such as Alibaba, Airbnb, Spotify, and Tempus AI.
Investment Thesis
Baillie Gifford invests in ambitious, fast-growing companies with transformational growth potential wherever they emerge, across any sector or geography. Rooted in long-term thinking and patient capital, they seek outlier companies led by restlessly creative founders who can reshape industries over decades. Their private companies strategy targets late-stage unlisted businesses generating substantial revenues, with a highly selective approach that meets ~800 companies annually and invests in just 10-12.
Manager's Experience
The team has decades of experience in long-term growth investing, backing transformative companies across public and private markets globally.
Team
Peter Singlehurst - Head of Private Companies Team
Alexander Nicolier - Investment Manager
Rachael Callaghan - Investment Specialist
Robert Natzler - Investment Manager
Brian Grinnell - Investment Specialist
Portfolio
SpaceX
ByteDance
Stripe
Databricks
Chime
Epic Games
FlixBus
Anthropic
Bending Spoons
Tenstorrent
Runway AI
STORD
Tanium
Tekever
Tempus AI
Toss
Upside Foods
Vinted
Warby Parker
Wayve
Wise
Workrise
PsiQuantum
SHINE Technologies
BillionToOne
Oddity
Allbirds
Alibaba
Northvolt