About Laird Cagan
Laird Cagan is managing director and co-founder of Cagan McAfee Capital Partners, a private investment firm based in Silicon Valley that he founded in 1990. He has invested in early-stage and late-stage companies as an investor, founder, board member and chief executive officer across technology, health care and energy. That work has included companies with large construction projects. More than $3 billion has gone into these companies, and he has taken over ten of them public.
Earlier in his career, Cagan worked in mergers and acquisitions at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and at Drexel Burnham Lambert, on deals worth more than $15 billion. He was the first chairman of the Young Presidents' Organization's San Francisco Bay chapter. He also founded and chairs the World Presidents' Organization's San Francisco chapter. For the past ten years he has chaired Tiger 21's San Francisco group, a network of 1,300 ultra-high-net-worth investors focused on managing personal wealth. He also serves as a member of TibaRay's board of directors.
Experience
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Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Laird Cagan works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
