Laurence Tosi, a former chief financial officer of both Airbnb Inc. and Blackstone Group Inc., is in the final stages of raising a $750 million fund to make wagers on marketplace-focused technology companies, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Tosi’s investment firm, WestCap Investment Partners LLC, has received about $1.2 billion of investor interest and is slated to close the vehicle in mid-November, according to one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. Investors in the new WestCap vehicle include sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and ultra-high-net-worth individuals or ...
