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Caffeinated Capital , a San Francisco venture firm started bysolo capitalist Raymond Tonsing , is raising $ 400 million for its fifth monetary fund , according to a regulative filing .

The firm , an former investor in software company Airtable and defense inauguration Saronic , has already prove $ 160 million toward the stock . If Caffeinated rack up its object , it will be the 15 - year - old firm ’s largest capital draw to date . Although the outfit did n’t announce its old store , PitchBook datum estimates that Caffeinated closed its fourth stock with a total of $ 209 million in commitments .

Tonsing was Caffeinated ’s only oecumenical partner until four years ago , when Varun Gupta , who led data scientific discipline and simple machine eruditeness at Affirm , join him as a second cosmopolitan partner in 2020 .

Tonsing was an early investor in Affirm , a buy now , pay late weapons platform thatwent publicin 2021 . The firm ’s other notable exits includeA / B testing startup Optimizely , which PitchBook appraisal was sold for $ 600 million in 2020 .

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