General Atlantic

Growth equity

General Atlantic is a New York growth-equity firm established in 1980 as the vehicle for Chuck Feeney's fortune, and now one of the largest growth investors in the world: roughly $126 billion under management across growth equity, credit, energy transition and infrastructure, and more than 885 companies backed over its history. It takes minority growth stakes rather than control, which is why the founders of its Ferret companies are all still in place. Its four Ferret companies sit at very different points: it holds about 35% of Sézane, led the August 2026 round that priced Blank Street at roughly $650 million and took a board seat with it, and bought into Vuori through a 2024 secondary that paid out earlier investors rather than funding the company. It is also named as a backer of %Arabica, which Ferret tracks, but that one is deliberately not counted among its Ferret companies: the only reporting behind it concerns the separately-valued Greater China franchisee entity, so whether the stake sits at the global parent, that entity, or both is not established from public sources. Counting a company as General Atlantic's tells readers it shares an owner with the rest, which is too flat a claim for a relationship nobody has pinned to an entity.

Assets under management: ~$126B (December 2025) · 3 companies on Ferret