Samir Parikh

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Samir is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GiantLeap Capital. He brings 25 years of investing experience in private and public markets across growth equity, public equities buyouts and structured credit. 

Prior to GiantLeap, Samir was a Partner at a hedge fund, and Head of Equities (Real Estate) at Fir Tree Partners, a $10 billion global investment fund that takes a private equity approach to public market investing. Samir invested in equities and credits at the intersection of technology and traditional industries. He led the firms' investments in Blackstone, KKR, Apollo, and Carlyle. Samir has also served as an Advisor on equity strategies for tech companies at hedge funds Hudson Bay Capital and a spin-out of Soros Management.
 
Prior to this, Samir was an investor at SAB Capital Management, a hedge fund focused on special situations equities, distressed debt, and mortgages and William Harris Investors, a Chicago-based family office. Both funds took a concentrated, research-driven approach, engaging management to increase shareholder value.   

Samir started his investment career in private equity at UBS Capital, focused on growth stage technology companies. Samir's investments included Greenfield Online (exit: Microsoft), Guardant (exit: VeriSign), Entercept (exit: MacAfee), Dynamicsoft (exit: Cisco), Vertafore (exit: Hellman & Friedman) and Commvault (exit: IPO). Samir started his career at Credit Suisse as an investment banker. 

Samir received his MBA from Harvard and graduated with honors in Biology & Economics from The University of Chicago.

Education

— Harvard Business School, MBA
— The University of Chicago, BA