WCM
281 Brooks Street, Laguna Beach, CA, 92651, United States
Overview
WCM's primary goal is to generate long-term, sustainable, excess return for clients by nurturing a culture of innovation, by closely aligning employee incentives with client objectives, and by preserving a flat power structure that fosters meritocracy and debate. They offer innovative, equity investment management services for a variety of clients, including corporations, individuals, public and private funds, Taft-Hartley plans, endowments, and foundations, through a variety of vehicles, including separate accounts, mutual funds, limited partnerships, and more. Original equity research provides the foundation for their goal of long-term excess return.
- Total investments
- 8
- Lead investments
- 2
- Investments · 12mo
- 6
- Active investors
- 2
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
Investment portfolio
- Databricks
Participated · Equity · Aug 2026
Databricks operates a cloud data platform and AI products, with its core cloud data warehouse generating $1.5 billion of its annualized run-rate revenue and growing 100% year-over-year. The company reported a $7 billion annualized run-rate revenue figure while growing at roughly 80% and being cash-flow positive. Databricks launched Lakebase in June 2025, which has reached a $100 million revenue run-rate, and its AI chatbot tool Genie is described as highly popular. The company maintains a roughly 100-person AI research team and faces multi-billion-dollar cloud commitments with major hyperscalers. Databricks has been active on the M&A front, acquiring companies including Electric (PGlite) and AI cybersecurity firm Panther, and it says it plans to continue investing in AI and acquisitions while remaining open to a future IPO.
- Hadrian
Led · Series D · Aug 2026
Hadrian builds automated manufacturing facilities that mass-produce parts for vehicles used by the military. The company has opened multiple facilities, including a fourth site in Alabama announced in March to produce submarine parts. That Alabama facility was structured as a public/private partnership and valued at $2.4 billion, according to Hadrian. Hadrian has attracted large venture and institutional backers and recently raised a $1.37 billion round at a $7.87 billion valuation. About a year earlier it raised a $260 million Series C led by Founders Fund and Lux Capital, bringing total capital raised to roughly $2 billion per PitchBook estimates. The company's current plans and financing indicate continued expansion of its automated production footprint for defense supply chains.
- Kavak
Participated · Series F · Feb 2026
Kavak operates a tech-enabled marketplace that couples vehicle inspection, reconditioning, logistics, financing and post-sale support to bring trust and liquidity to Latin America’s historically informal used-car market. Its fintech arm has originated more than $1 billion in customer loans since launch and, in Q4 2025, reached an annualized run rate of roughly $600 million with year-on-year growth nearing 100%. During 2025 the company completed nearly 120,000 transactions, a 40% increase over the prior year, and recorded its first full month of consolidated global profitability in December, buoyed by profitable operations in Mexico, Chile and the GCC. AI agents now handle the majority of customer interactions, and further workflow automation is planned for 2026. Beyond direct retail, Kavak’s ecosystem powers over 5,000 industry partners that tap its technology and infrastructure. The company’s mission centers on broadening access to car ownership, reducing fraud and enhancing trust throughout the vehicle lifecycle.
- ClickHouse
Participated · Series D · Jan 2026
ClickHouse offers a high-performance, open-source columnar database that powers real-time analytics at massive scale, delivered both as self-managed software and the fully managed ClickHouse Cloud service. The platform emphasizes exceptional query speed, high concurrency, and cost efficiency, making it well-suited for customer-facing products and data-intensive AI systems. The company reports serving more than 3,000 customers on ClickHouse Cloud and achieving over 250 percent year-over-year ARR growth, with users such as Capital One, Sony, Tesla, Meta, and Airwallex. Recent strategic moves include acquiring Langfuse to add large-language-model (LLM) observability capabilities and launching a native, enterprise-grade Postgres service integrated with ClickHouse to unify transactional and analytical workloads. Product enhancements now support data lake formats like Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake, expanded full-text search, and lightweight updates to meet AI-driven application demands. ClickHouse continues global expansion through new partnerships in Japan and with Microsoft Azure, and it has hosted large community events across major tech hubs. The company positions itself as a unified data platform and AI observability layer for modern, real-time applications.
- Anthropic
Participated · Series F · Sep 2025
Anthropic is a premier artificial intelligence safety and research company renowned for developing Claude, a family of highly capable, steerable, and safe large language models. Founded by former OpenAI researchers, Anthropic pioneers techniques like "Constitutional AI" to build systems that are helpful, honest, and harmless. Beyond its core research, the company has rapidly scaled into a dominant market force, experiencing exponential revenue growth driven by widespread enterprise adoption. Anthropic has attracted unprecedented investor attention, recently raising approximately $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation, with ongoing negotiations potentially boosting its valuation to roughly $800 billion. As a leading competitor in the generative AI space, the company is reportedly exploring an IPO later this year.