Venture capital secondaries in top-tier, tech-enabled companies

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Philosophy

We are a venture capital firm investing at late-stage growth through secondaries in hard-to-access technology companies

PROPRIETARY ACCESS

Proprietary access to top-tier companies with value unrecognised by the market at a late stage of growth and with a clear pathway to profitability

SECONDARY FOCUS

Addressing the liquidity challenges that come from an extended life in private markets, outside of competitive primaries

EPICENTRES OF TECHNOLOGY

Backing companies solving the the world's largest problems in regions and sectors poised for rapid growth

ALEXANDER ASSIM | PARTNER

OUR INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY

Capital is flowing into venture capital funds chasing private market returns. Meanwhile, technology companies experiencing continued growth and longer private lives are driving a demand for liquidity through the secondary market.

Alicorn sees this as an opportunity to invest at late-stage growth through secondaries in hard-to-access tech companies with profitable models.

PORTFOLIO

We are inflection point investors, focusing on late growth stage companies past key business and technology risks 

Portfolio companies

Successful exits

Portfolio Snapshot

ANODOT

Powering business performance through artificial intelligence and data analytics to identify operational pain points

PLIOPS

Optimising data-intensive workloads for breakthrough storage performance at a fraction of the cost

Axis Security

An agentless, zero trust platform providing secure access to business applications

CODEFRESH

Kubernetes native integration/delivery platform allowing customers to build development pipelines in minutes

INSIGHTS

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Anodot acquires cloud specialist Pileus
Alicorn is pleased to announce that portfolio company, Anodot, has acquired cloud cost management platform Pileus. The combined offering will enable Anodot to accurately manage and forecast cloud costs, as part of its comprehensive autonomous monitoring solution, powered by artificial intelligence. Pileus provides personalised cloud cost optimisation strategies for businesses, allowing them to cut their cloud costs by up to 40%. With an increasing trend...
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Beyond Silicon Valley: Top 7 tech hubs to watch
Investors have set their sights on the world’s innovation capitals. Silicon Valley continues to set the gold standard for technology hubs around the world, consistently ranking #1 across different subsectors such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and life sciences. The region has an ecosystem value of US$677bn, according to research firm Startup Genome. Global venture capital, however, is fuelling the growth of start-ups and scale-ups outside...
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Glassbox IPO joins a new era for the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
Digital experience analytics firm Glassbox raised US$100m in its initial public offering on the TASE – the latest in a series of debuts in Tel Aviv signalling the region’s emerging public markets strength.  Israel is renowned as one of the world’s leading technology hubs; a thriving ecosystem of start-ups, high calibre of talent, and support from a broad base of investors, but of late it has been seen to enter a new phase in its evolution as an international market.  From a “start-up nation” that emerged in the 1990s, Israel and Tel Aviv...
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