D1 Capital Partners is a global investment firm that operates across public and private markets. The firm combines the talent and operational excellence of a large asset management firm with the flexible mandate of a family office.
Portfolio
3
companies
Multiverse
Multiverse provides professional apprenticeships and alternative pathways to higher education and tech careers.
Wayve
Wayve develops autonomous driving technology powered by embodied AI foundation models.
Cazoo
Cazoo operates an e-commerce platform for purchasing used cars entirely online.
Dan Sundheim
Founder
Dan founded D1 Capital Partners, where he serves as chief investment officer. He previously spent over a decade at Viking Global Investors, rising to chief investment officer.
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Daniel Sundheim
Founder
The financing round was co-led by StepStone Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and General Catalyst to scale apprenticeship programmes.
"Mandating degrees, and making admissions officers the gatekeepers for great careers, means leaving out thousands of talented individuals,"
The Series B round was led by Eclipse Ventures with participation from a broad group of global financial and strategic backers.
"We were the first team to develop the scientific breakthroughs in deep learning to build autonomous driving technology that can easily scale to new markets using a data-learned approach. Today, we have all of the pieces in place to take what we have pioneered and drive AV2.0 forward. We have brought together world-class strategic partners in transportation, grocery delivery and compute, along with the best capital resources to scale our core autonomy platform, trial products with our commercial fleet partners, and build the infrastructure to scale AV2.0 globally."
The Series C round was led by D1 Capital Partners and BOND to support growth in the UK and the US.
"We have spent the last few years building a truly outstanding alternative to university and to corporate training, and this latest funding round is recognition of how far this cause has come"
The financing round was led by General Catalyst alongside several other prominent institutional investors.
"Over the past few months we have seen an acceleration in the shift from offline to online car buying as UK consumers have continued to embrace our unique and market-leading proposition. This latest funding demonstrates the conviction of some of the world’s best investors in both our business model and team as well as the UK market and gives Cazoo the firepower to deliver on our plans to provide the best possible car buying experience for UK consumers."
