Portrait of Tench Coxe

Rank #415

Tench Coxe

Net worth $8.6B

Venture capital · United States

Born
Jan 14, 1958
Age
68
Source
Venture capital
Residence
Palo Alto, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
3
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Dartmouth College; Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Tench Coxe has served on the board of chip designer Nvidia since 1993, accumulating enough stock (as compensation) to become a billionaire.
  • Coxe is the third largest individual shareholder of Nvidia, behind founder and CEO Jensen Huang and board member Mark Stevens.
  • Coxe spent more than three decades at venture capital firm Sutter Hill Ventures, serving as a managing director from 1989 to 2020.
  • As of late 2021 owned about 1% of software firm Snowflake, in which Sutter Hill was the earliest investor.
  • He also serves on the board of money management firm Artisan Partners Asset Management.

Financial assets

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