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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q3 | Sep 30, 2025 | Baron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund | 5.8% | 14.3% | AMZN, CRWD, GOOGL, GTLB, ISRG, KKR, LLY, MBLY, MELI, META, MSFT, NET, NOW, NVDA, ORCL, SHOP, TEAM, TSLA, TSM, TTD | AI, Cloud, growth, innovation, large cap, semiconductors, technology | AI infrastructure investment is accelerating with massive scale deals like Oracle's $455 billion backlog and NVIDIA's $100 billion OpenAI investment. Enterprise adoption remains early but tangible impact is growing across the ecosystem with over 50% of global VC investment going to AI startups. | META CRWD KKR MELI ISRG TTD TSM GOOGL TSLA SHOP NVDA |
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| 2025 Q2 | Sep 21, 2025 | Meditation Capital | - | - | BRZE, FLYW, GOOGL, GTLB, MA, MNDY, MSFT | AI, payments, Quality, software, valuation | Manager bought positions in Monday.com and GitLab at 5x sales after they fell from 11x peaks, and added to Braze at 3x sales. Views these as quality software companies trading at attractive valuations despite AI concerns. GitLab's strategic position is strengthening as more AI-generated code needs DevOps management. | FLYW GTLB MNDY FLYW BRZE GTLB MNDY |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jul 11, 2024 | SandbrooK Capital | 6.0% | 11.1% | BBWI, GTLB | alpha, consumer, earnings, Long/Short, Performance, software | Manager maintains a net long software bias despite sector underperformance. Focus on higher quality names in core coverage areas where duration can be taken given relative underperformance. Software positioning contributed to June performance challenges. | View | |
| 2026 Q1 | Apr 6, 2026 | Minotaur Global Opportunities Fund | -8.2% | -8.2% | 000660 KS, 7211.T, GTLB, INTU, MU, PANW, RHM.DE | AI, cybersecurity, defense, Geopolitical, global, Memory, software, technology | INTU GTLB MU |
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| 2026 Q1 | Apr 18, 2026 | Madison Small Cap Fund | 0.1% | 0.1% | CHRD, CRL, CVLT, DRS, ENTG, FORM, GMED, GTLB, ICUI, MEDP, MTDR, PCOR, POWI, SITE, VIAV, WK | AI, defense, energy, healthcare, semiconductors, small caps, software | SITE PCOR MTDR ICUI |
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| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Baron Discovery Fund | 13.5% | 9.3% | AEIS, ALGM, AXNX, AXON, CDNA, CYBR, DKNG, ENDV, ESTA, FND, GTLB, INTA, KNSL, MASI, MRCY, NARI, NVTS, RH, S, SITE | cybersecurity, growth, healthcare, semiconductors, small cap, technology, Valuations | Fund focuses on small-cap growth stocks which remain in a three-plus year bear market while large-cap stocks reach all-time highs. Small-cap growth stocks have attractive valuations both on an absolute basis and relative to large-cap stocks, and typically show significant appreciation coming out of deep market downturns. | INTA MASI CYBR DKNG KNSL |
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| 2026 Q1 | Apr 10, 2026 | Middle Coast Investing | -3.9% | -3.9% | BKNG, COF, DUOL, GTLB, LYFT, PGR, SARO | aerospace, AI, insurance, Memes, technology, Travel, volatility | DUOL SARO FG GTLB BKNG PGR |
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| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Octahedron Capital | - | - | ABNB, AMZN, BKNG, CPNG, CRM, CVNA, DIS, GOOGL, GTLB, MELI, META, NET, NFLX, NOW, PLTR, SNOW, UBER, W, WDAY, ZS | AI, E-Commerce, growth, Internet, payments, semiconductors, software, technology | Agentic AI emerged as the dominant theme with reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI o3 enabling AI agents to complete complex multi-step tasks. The commoditization of LLMs is accelerating AI applications growth while reducing inference costs, creating opportunities for application software companies with proprietary data. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 5, 2026 | Baron Opportunity Fund | 4.6% | 19.4% | ACLX, AMZN, ARGX, AXON, BRCM, CSGP, DUOL, EXAS, GOOGL, GTLB, HRTX, LLY, META, MSFT, NVDA, ONON, ORCL, SPOT, TSLA, TTD | AI, Cloud, growth, innovation, secular trends, semiconductors, Space, technology | AI is the most powerful technology platform shift since the internet, driving stock leadership and returns over the last three years. Baron has investments across all layers of the AI stack, with successful infrastructure investments like NVIDIA being a 10-bagger. AI is already delivering value through software development productivity improvements, customer service cost savings, and emerging applications like Tesla Robotaxis and AI-powered commerce. SpaceX is generating significant value through rapid expansion of Starlink broadband service and establishing itself as a leading launch provider with reusable technology. The company is making tremendous progress on Starship, the largest most powerful rocket ever flown, representing a significant leap forward in space exploration capabilities. Eli Lilly's portfolio of Mounjaro/Zepbound GLP-1/GIP drugs are important treatments for diabetic and non-diabetic obese patients. This drug class should become the standard of care for both diabetes and obesity and grow to at least a $150 billion category. The market is in early innings of uptake with adoption driving Lilly to nearly double revenues by 2030. Microsoft has built a $135 billion run-rate cloud business including Azure cloud infrastructure and Office 365 applications. The company remains well positioned across overlapping software, cloud computing, and AI landscapes with its vertically integrated technology stack and broad sales distribution, driving durable long-term double-digit growth. NVIDIA has been more than a 10-bagger for the Fund, with Baron being early investors over four years before the ChatGPT moment. Broadcom has been a 2.5-bagger resulting from explosive growth not multiple expansion. These investments represent successful positioning in the infrastructure layer of AI computing. Spotify continues to demonstrate double-digit user growth and industry-leading engagement levels with evident pricing power as customer retention held despite recent price hikes. The company is on a path to structurally higher gross margins aided by high-margin artist-promotions marketplace and scaling podcast offering, with potential to reach over 1 billion monthly active users. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 24, 2026 | Hayden Capital | -12.9% | 22.3% | 1519.HK, 7974.T, ABNB, APP, BKNG, CPNG, DASH, EDU, EXPE, GTLB, MELI, NFLX, NOW, RBLX, SE, SPOT, TEAM, TTWO, U, UBER | AI, competition, E-Commerce, gaming, international, software, technology, valuation | The AI cycle is shifting from building core infrastructure to attacking real-world applications, creating uncertainty about which legacy firms will benefit versus face disruption. Software companies are experiencing a valuation reset as investors question the fundamental value of code when AI can commoditize engineering work. The manager sees opportunities in incumbent companies that can successfully leverage AI to amplify their business models. Ecommerce platforms like Sea Ltd are protected by physical logistics infrastructure and network effects that AI cannot easily replicate. The manager argues that TikTok Shop's growth is decelerating based on alternative data, and that Shopee's margin compression is discretionary investment to strengthen competitive positioning. The core value remains in the network and distribution capabilities. Gaming platforms benefit from network effects where millions of players create instant matchmaking and attract user-generated content creators. As games become easier to make with AI, profit pools will shift toward distribution and monetization platforms rather than game creation itself. The bottleneck remains in attracting users and monetizing games, not creating them. | SE EDU |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 18, 2026 | Jackson Peak Capital | 14.0% | 0.0% | CFLT, CORZ, GTLB, PZZA, QQQ, SATS | Event-Driven, Exposure Management, Long/Short, M&A, technology, valuation | AI infrastructure spending commitments faced scrutiny in late Q4 as investors questioned feasibility and ROI demonstration capabilities. The tech sector peaked on AI infrastructure announcements before reversing as sentiment shifted regarding over-extrapolated promotional claims. Event-driven M&A activity was a key performance driver, with Confluent's acquisition by IBM validating the manager's thesis published in August. The strategy focuses on identifying attractive acquisition candidates in the technology sector. | SATS |
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| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Artisan Mid Cap Fund | 5.1% | 12.0% | APP, EXAS, FTV, GDDY, GTLB, HOOD, HUBB, IR, LYV, MPWR, MRVL, ON, ONTO, PLTR, PSTG, SHOP, SPOT, TEAM, USFD, XYL | AI, Biotechnology, Cloud, growth, healthcare, mid cap, semiconductors, technology | AI adoption is driving growth across portfolio holdings including custom AI chips from Marvell, networking solutions from Arista Networks, and cloud software companies integrating AI functionality into their platforms. Data centers require vast amounts of electricity to power AI infrastructure, creating energy demand challenges. | View | |
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Artisan Partners Small Cap Fund | 0.6% | 14.7% | ABMD.CO, ALAB, COCO, CROX, FLS, GTLB, HALO, INSM, ITGR, JBT, LSCC, MTSI, NOVT, ONTO, PSN, RGEN, SDHC, SN, STVN, VCYT, VSEC | AI, Biotechnology, energy, healthcare, semiconductors, small cap, technology | Data centers are energy-intensive and with AI expansion, energy consumption is projected to grow exponentially. Portfolio companies like Astera Labs and MACOM are benefiting from growing AI datacenter spending. Cloud software franchises are making steady progress introducing AI functionality into their leading solution suites. | View | |
| 2025 Q3 | Nov 8, 2025 | Baron Opportunity Fund | 5.4% | 14.2% | ANET, ARGX, AVGO, EXAS, GDS, GTLB, HRTX, IT, LLY, NVDA, PAR, SHOP, SMAR, SNPS, SPOT, TEAM, TSLA, TSM, TTD, VIA | AI, growth, infrastructure, innovation, large cap, semiconductors, technology | The market has absorbed a surge of AI infrastructure buildouts with OpenAI announcing partnerships for tens of gigawatts of compute capacity. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang proclaimed global AI infrastructure spending could total $3 trillion to $5 trillion by 2030. The fund conducts intensive research to separate signal from noise in AI developments, examining parallels to past technology paradigm shifts while quantifying AI addressable markets across sectors. | PAR IT TTD AVGO TSLA NVDA FFBC NEE |
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| 2025 Q3 | Nov 27, 2025 | Jackson Peak Capital | -2.9% | 60.4% | CFLT, GTLB, TSLA, TTD, UNH | AI, Event-Driven, Long/Short, momentum, Power, Speculation, volatility | Jackson Peak identified attractive opportunities in AI infrastructure power supply chain, specifically high-performance computing companies with existing data center infrastructure and reliable power access. Several positions were former bitcoin miners that pivoted to data center compute. Big tech companies contracted with these firms to utilize their data centers and power due to longer timelines for greenfield development. | CFLT |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 28, 2026 | Prosper Stars & Stripes | 1.2% | 9.9% | ATI, EAT, GTLB, INOD, KTB, META, MSFT, PDFS, RVTY, SEAT, SITM, STUB, TKNO | AI, alpha, healthcare, Long/Short, semiconductors, small caps, value | AI investment cycle driving economic growth and market gains, with revenue per employee increasing at large AI companies. AI infrastructure spending not out of line with past tech investment expansions. GenAI reshaping software development and creating competitive pressures for traditional seat-based pricing models. Semiconductor industry experiencing high growth from normal demand plus AI buildout. Companies like PDF Solutions benefiting from increased need for yield improvement tools in 3-D semiconductor structures and supply chain data sharing as US builds denser semiconductor supply chains. Small caps getting strong start in 2026 supported by easing monetary conditions and constructive fiscal backdrop. Small caps more sensitive to economic cyclicality which is overdue for expansion. Expected to grow at better pace than large caps in 2026 after long period of underperformance. Healthcare industry positioned for catch-up growth after several years of below-trend performance. Government spending expected to increase relative to feared cuts, with companies signaling improvement in revenue growth. Focus on 'picks & shovels' businesses serving the industry. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 26, 2026 | Baron Discovery Fund | 0.2% | 11.0% | ALKT, CWAN, CWST, DKNG, DT, ESTA, EXAS, FROG, GCI, GTLB, INDIE, LLYVA, LOAR, MRCY, PRMB, RGEN, S, SITM, TREX, VRNS, WAY | AI, defense, growth, healthcare, Quality, small caps, software | The fund discusses AI as a transformative force requiring careful alignment of goals with humanity's interests. They view AI advancement as creating massive capital investment opportunities, particularly in datacenter buildout, while acknowledging concerns about AI's impact on software competitive advantages. The fund maintains significant exposure to enterprise software companies, particularly cybersecurity and systems software. They believe complexity of enterprise integration protects established players from AI disruption, with companies like Dynatrace, Varonis, and SentinelOne offering defensive moats through proven resilience and security. The fund focuses on innovative healthcare companies including molecular diagnostics (Exact Sciences), medical devices (Establishment Labs), and healthcare IT (Waystar). They see opportunities in companies improving patient outcomes through technology and automation in healthcare processes. The fund holds defense companies benefiting from increased defense budgets, including allocations for unmanned vehicles and missile defense systems. They trimmed positions after meaningful valuation increases but maintain defense as a core holding area. | CWST GLIBA PRMB LLYVA VRNS INDI FROG CAS WAY CWAN ESTA EXAS |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 20, 2026 | Meditation Capital | 0.0% | 0.0% | ELV, GTLB, MOH | AI, Health Insurance, Margins, Medicaid, technology, value | Manager outlines framework for AI investing focused on asymmetric risk/reward profiles and avoiding AI losers. Applications have lagged capex but 2026 may see value creation across portfolio. Sold GitLab position due to increased uncertainty from rapid AI coding improvements. Large positions in Elevance Health and Molina Healthcare based on margin normalization thesis after 2025 cost overruns. Health insurers expected to reprice policies to restore normal margins, creating 25-34% IRR opportunities over 4 years. | MOH ELV |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 20, 2026 | Madison Small Cap Fund | -0.4% | -6.9% | AAON, AMPL, CCOI, CFLT, CIEN, EHC, ENTG, FORM, GTLB, MIR, POWI, PRMB, RVLV, SMG, VCEL, VFC, VIAV, WAL, ZION | AI, Consumer Staples, Quality, Risk Appetite, small caps, software, Speculation, underperformance | The AI capital spending boom drove strong performance in select technology stocks like Ciena and Confluent. However, the manager questions how long the AI capital spending cycle will last and whether investors will begin asking for returns on this investment. The fund avoided most speculative AI-related opportunities due to quality parameters. Software stocks faced significant pressure as investors feared AI-powered solutions would displace traditional applications. The manager fundamentally rejects this thesis, believing enterprises won't migrate mission-critical data to language models generating errors at 60% rates. They used the selloff to add GitLab and Amplitude at attractive valuations. Consumer Staples was the epicenter of underperformance as investors showed no appetite for defensive businesses in a pro-cyclical, speculative bull market. The sector now trades at historically steep discounts despite facing perceived challenges including input cost inflation, GLP-1 impacts, and tariff supply chain effects. The market demonstrated insatiable appetite for risk, with the best performing stocks being the most speculative companies with no profits or revenue but thematic AI linkage. This extended to biotechs, meme stocks, crypto, and mining stocks, while defensive businesses were deeply out of favor. Small caps continued underperforming large caps despite a strong year for the Russell 2000. The fund significantly underperformed due to the speculative nature of the rally favoring companies without profits or revenue. Quality businesses with durable moats can now be found at attractive prices again. | AAON GTLB VIAV AMPL VCEL MIR CIEN CCOI WAL |
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| 2023 Q3 | Sep 30, 2023 | Baron Discovery Fund | 13.5% | 9.3% | AEIS, AXNX, AXON, BYD, CWAN, EWCZ, GTLB, GTLS, GWRE, INDI, KNSL, LLYVA, MEG, NVTS, PAR, REPG, REXR, RVNC, S, SILK, SITE, TXG | growth, healthcare, semiconductors, small caps, software, technology, value | The fund initiated a position in SentinelOne, a cybersecurity vendor focused on endpoint protection using AI to detect threats. The company serves over 11,000 organizations and is gaining market share from legacy antivirus vendors who struggle with evolving threats. | View | |
| 2023 Q3 | Sep 30, 2023 | Baron Opportunity Fund | 4.0% | 25.1% | AMZN, ARGX, CRWD, CSGP, DDOG, DT, EA, GTLB, INDI, IT, LEGN, META, MSFT, NET, NOW, NVDA, RVAN, TKO, TSLA, V | AI, Biotechnology, Cloud, growth, innovation, large cap, secular trends, technology | The fund emphasizes artificial intelligence as a generational shift driving demand for data center chips and accelerated computing. NVIDIA is positioned at the epicenter of this new computing era, with the transition from general purpose to accelerated computing creating tremendous demand across industries. The fund views AI as part of a broader technology stack from semiconductors to applications. | View | |
| 2024 Q2 | Jul 31, 2024 | Baron Discovery Fund | 13.5% | 9.3% | AEIS, AXON, BASE, CDXC, CHI, CYBR, DKNG, EXAS, FND, GTLB, GWRE, INSP, ITGR, KNSL, KTOS, MEG, NVMI, PAR, PCOR, SILK, SITE, STVN, TEM, TXRH | AI, Diagnostics, healthcare, small caps, technology, value, volatility | Fund owns several AI-enabled companies including GitLab, SentinelOne, and Couchbase that adapt AI models to enhance their products. Also owns Nova Ltd., a semiconductor capital equipment company enabling AI chip manufacturing. Managers believe the market will broaden from AI hardware to adaptive AI investments. | View | |
| 2022 Q2 | Jun 30, 2022 | Baron Discovery Fund | 13.5% | 9.3% | ALKT, ASGN, CDAY, CWAN, DAVA, DH, ESTA, GTLB, GWRE, MEG, PGNY, REXR, SAIL | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q1 | Apr 17, 2023 | Meditation Capital | - | - | CRWD, GTLB, MSFT, OKTA, S | conviction, Product Quality, risk management, software, technology, valuation | Manager discusses competitive dynamics in identity management and cybersecurity, specifically analyzing Okta versus Microsoft's bundling advantages. The letter details avoiding investments in Crowdstrike, SentinelOne, and GitLab due to concerns about Microsoft's closing product gap in these areas. | View | |
| 2023 Q4 | Jan 30, 2024 | Baron Discovery Fund | 13.5% | 9.3% | AAON, ACVA, AEIS, AXON, BASE, CYBR, DKNG, ESTA, EWCZ, FND, GTLB, GTLS, ICHR, KNSL, KTOS, MRAI, MRCY, REXR, S, VRNS | cybersecurity, defense, growth, HVAC, small caps, technology, value | Multiple cybersecurity holdings performed strongly in Q4, with SentinelOne, GitLab, Varonis, and CyberArk all contributing positively. The managers see accelerating demand driven by AI adoption requiring data security, SEC disclosure requirements, and vendor consolidation favoring comprehensive platforms over point solutions. | AAON VRNS GTLB ^FTSE |
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| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Apr 28, 2026 | Fund Letters | Baron Discovery Fund | GitLab Inc. | Information Technology | Application Software | Bull | NASDAQ | AI, Devops, enterprise, platform, SaaS, Software Development, technology | View Pitch |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Fund Letters | Minotaur Global Opportunities Fund | GitLab Inc. | Software - Infrastructure | Software | Bull | NASDAQ | AI, Coding Agents, Devops, enterprise, Governance, Software, valuation | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Middle Coast Investing | GitLab Inc | Software - Infrastructure | Application Software | Bull | NASDAQ | AI tools, Developer Productivity, Devops, Growth Software, SaaS, Software Development, takeover target | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Meditation Capital | GitLab Inc. | Software & Services | Application Software | Bull | NASDAQ | acquisition target, AI Beneficiary, Code Management, Devops, duopoly, Enterprise software, high switching costs | View Pitch |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Substack | Alpha Seeker 84 | GitLab Inc. | Software | Application Software | Bull | Nasdaq Stock Market | AI usage credits, AI-driven software development, Compliance, DevSecOps, enterprise standardization, Gitlab, Governance, hybrid-pricing model, large enterprise customers, Revenue Growth | View Pitch |
| Feb 21, 2026 | Fund Letters | George Bolton | GitLab Inc. | Information Technology | Application Software | Bull | NASDAQ | AI, Automation, Devops, enterprise, productivity, Security, Software, Workflow | View Pitch |
| Feb 4, 2026 | Twitter / X | @akramsrazor | GitLab Inc. | Software | Application Software | Bull | NASDAQ | AI agents, CI/CD, Developers, DevSecOps, enterprise, Government, Software Infrastructure | View Pitch |
| Feb 4, 2026 | Fund Letters | Jonathan Edwards | Chart Industries | Industrials | Industrial Machinery | Bear | New York Stock Exchange | capital recycling, clean energy, M&A, Opportunity-Cost | View Pitch |
| Jan 25, 2026 | Seeking Alpha | Seeking Alpha | GitLab Inc. | Software | DevOps Software | Bull | NASDAQ Stock Market | Devops, generative AI, Gitlab, hybrid-pricing model, margin expansion, operating leverage, Revenue Growth, software delivery, Ultimate product, valuation | View Pitch |
| Jan 23, 2026 | Fund Letters | Faraz Farzam | GitLab Inc. | Information Technology | Application Software | Bull | NASDAQ | AI, Devops, Margins, Security, Software | View Pitch |
| Jan 22, 2026 | Twitter / X | @JKeynesAlpha | GitLab Inc. | Information Technology | Systems Software | Bull | NASDAQ | Agentic, development, Duo, Gitlab, Satellite, Simulation, Software, Software Development | View Pitch |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Fund Letters | Timothy Liu | GitLab Inc. | Information Technology | Application Software | Bull | NASDAQ | AI, Devops, enterprise, Security, Stickiness | View Pitch |
| Oct 24, 2025 | Value Investors Club | InThePocket | GitLab Inc. | Information Technology | Application Software | Bull | NASDAQ | AI, DevSecOps, FCF inflection, platform, Re-rating | View Pitch |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Dominic Lombardo, CFA | GitLab Inc. | Information Technology | Software - Infrastructure | Bull | NASDAQ | — | View Pitch |
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