Best growth & disruptive investors — superinvestor list

Growth and disruptive-innovation investors who buy high-conviction positions in emerging-technology winners.

Disruptive innovation investor who made concentrated, long-horizon bets on genomics, AI, robotics, and crypto before they were consensus. Famous for extraordinary returns during the pandemic boom and deep drawdowns since — the ultimate high-beta conviction investor.

$15.1B disclosed AUM

Leopold Aschenbrenner

Situational Awareness LP

Former OpenAI researcher who built a hedge fund around one idea: AGI is arriving by 2027 and markets haven't priced it in. Bets on the infrastructure of AI — power, compute, silicon — not the models themselves. Grew to $5.5B in disclosed long equity exposure in under 18 months.

$3.9B disclosed AUM

Peter Thiel

Thiel Macro LLC

Contrarian tech visionary turned macro investor. Bets on monopolies, paradigm shifts, and the collapse of conventional assumptions. Co-founded PayPal, first outside investor in Facebook, and never stops asking what everyone else is getting wrong.

— disclosed AUM

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Growth and disruptive-innovation investors who buy high-conviction positions in emerging-technology winners.

This list is curated based on each investor's public statements, fund mandate, and disclosed 13F portfolios. Click any card above to see the full live holdings, biggest buys, exits, and quarter-by-quarter history.