Allan Thygesen Leaves Carlyle Group
Allan Thygesen has left The Carlyle Group, in order to launch a new early-stage VC firm. The stealth firm has enough partner capital to do select angel deals, but will begin pre-marketing its debut fund late this year. Formal fund-raising is expected to commence in early 2009. “When we set this in motion late last year, we hadn’t quite foreseen the global economic meltdown,” Thygesen explains. “So we’ll wait a bit longer than we had expected, and probably target a bit less money.” He declined to identify his two partners, except to say one was a longtime VC with prior operating experience, and that the other was a pure operator. Thygesen originally joined Carlyle in 2001, as a San Francisco-based managing director of what was then called Carlyle Venture Partners. The group has since evolved
