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LIGHT STREET CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
PALO ALTO CA
Investment Advisor
Hedge Fund
Light Street Capital Management is based out of Palo Alto. Light Street Capital Management is a hedge fund with 19 clients and discretionary assets under management (AUM) of $821,203,422 (Form ADV from 2024-03-27). Their last reported 13F filing for Q4 2024 included $544,595,654 in managed 13F securities
and a top 10 holdings concentration of 66.17%. Light Street Capital Management's largest holding is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing with shares held of 341,154. Whalewisdom has at least 49 13F filings, 50 13G filings, and 21 Form 4 filings
Business Description
Light Street Capital Management, LLC ("Light Street") is a Delaware limited liability company formed in 2010. Glen T. Kacher is the Chief Investment Officer, founder, and controlling owner, with ownership held through family trusts where he serves as trustee.
Light Street acts as the general partner and/or investment adviser to private investment funds ("Funds"). These Funds include hedge funds, long-only funds, venture funds, and closed-end funds, investing in publicly traded equity and equity-related securities, private technology companies, and single investments fitting the mandates of the other fund types. Light Street manages assets on a discretionary basis.
Investment Strategy
Light Street's primary investment goal is to identify companies with superior management, products, and strategies in rapidly innovating industries. They use proprietary research to find these companies and seek investments that create attractive, risk-adjusted long-term returns for their Funds. Light Street also invests in companies undergoing significant corporate events such as spin-offs, recapitalizations, litigation, and strategic realignments. Additionally, they invest in securities they believe are underpriced relative to their expected merger and acquisition value, anticipating appreciation if circumstances change or an anticipated event occurs.
Light Street's investment strategies are general and not exhaustive, with limits on the types of securities, positions, investment concentration, and leverage they may use, as defined in the Funds’ governing documents. They may use any trading or investment techniques, whether or not contemplated by their strategies, and may pursue any objectives or use any techniques they consider appropriate based on market conditions and the economy. These strategies apply to Hedge, Sub-advised, and Long-Only Funds.
Owners
- KACHER REVOCABLE TRUST - MEMBER
- LYNCH, GEORGE, WILLIAM - CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
- WENZELL, ROBERT, MICHAEL - CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
- KACHER, GLEN, THOMAS - CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER / FOUNDER
- ROBINS, THEO, JEREMY - CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER / GENERAL COUNSEL Click on the Ownership/Private Fund Data tab for more details.
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2024-12-31
Top Buys (13F)
Name | % Change |
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TSM Taiwan Semiconductor (PUT) | 6.4% |
MRVL Marvell Technology I | 5.47% |
GDS GDS Holdings Limited | 3.43% |
MBLY Mobileye Global Inc | 2.81% |
MELI MercadoLibre Inc | 2.48% |

2024-12-31
Top Sells (13F)
Name | % Change |
---|---|
NVDA NVIDIA Corp | 6.15% |
AMD Advanced Micro Devic | 4.31% |
BE Bloom Energy Corp | 3.42% |
FROG JFrog Ltd | 2.39% |
BILL BILL Holdings Inc | 2.28% |

2024-12-31
13F Holdings Summary
Name | $ Change |
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TSM Taiwan Semiconductor | 12.37% |
TSM Taiwan Semiconductor(PUT) | 10.79% |
NVDA NVIDIA Corp | 10.34% |
META Meta Platforms Inc | 5.77% |
MRVL Marvell Technology I | 5.47% |

2024-12-31
13F Activity
Market Value | $0.54b, Prior: $423m |
Inflows (Outflows) as % of Total MV | +11.1944% |
New Purchases | 11 stocks |
Added To | 7 stocks |
Sold out of | 3 stocks |
Reduced holdings in | 12 stocks |
Top 10 Holdings % | 66.17% |
Turnover %[1] | 42.42% |
Turnover Alt %[2] | 15.06% |
Time Held Top 20 | 4.2 quarters |
Time Held Top 10 | 3.8 quarters |
Time Held All | 3.63 quarters |
[1]: Turnover is calculated by taking the # of new holdings (initial purchases) + the # of positions sold out of (not just reduced) divided by the total # of holdings for the quarter.
[2]: Alt Turnover is calculated by taking either the total MV of new purchases or the MV of securities sold, whichever is less, divided by the total MV of the fund.

2024-12-31
13F Sector Allocation Over Time
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2024-12-31
Analysis

Top 20 equal-weighted holdings. Performance numbers calculated through 2024-12-31