Braun's TQ Ventures Has $1B AUM and Closed a $500M Fund III
Scooter Braun · Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Apr 17, 2023 · at 43:37
Scooter Braun, co-founder of venture capital firm TQ Ventures alongside Andrew Marks and Schuster Tanger, details the firm's fund metrics and current deployment level.
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“We started about five, six years ago. We have, we're, you know, over a billion in men under management. We just closed our third fund and we were very fortunate because we have our third fund is a five hundred million dollar fund and we've only deployed, I think, 12%.”
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