The Tiger Global hedge fund recently disclosed a big position of Facebook stock during the third quarter.

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Coleman also bought some of his Facebook stock through his Tiger Global hedge fund, which he co-manages with Feroz Dewan.

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The Tiger Global hedge fund, which is co-managed by Feroz Dewan, had previously taken a small stake in Groupon during the third-quarter of the year.

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Chase Coleman is a Tiger Cub who went on to found hedge fund Tiger Global Management.

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Through it all, nobody traded Facebook better than Chase Coleman, the 37-year-old New York hedge fund manager who runs Tiger Global Management.

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Tiger Global Management, a New York hedge fund that is also a shareholder in DST, has already specialised in investing in start-ups beyond the West's well-known technology clusters.

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Coleman, 37, shot to the top of the hedge fund heap his Tiger Global beat nearly all other hedge funds in 2011 with a 45 percent return.

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Flipkart, an online-commerce site in India founded by two former Amazon employees, has received funding from Tiger Global, a New York-based hedge fund that specialises in this kind of investing, and Accel Partners, a venture-capital firm.

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