D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.
D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. operates as an investment and technology development company. Its activities range from the deployment of investment strategies based on mathematical models or human expertise to the acquisition of existing companies and the financing or development of new ones. The company's investment activities include quantitative strategies based on mathematical and computational models, and qualitative strategies based on the analysis of human experts. It also provides debt and equity financing to healthy and financially distressed companies; makes venture capital investments in early and later stage ventures; and organizes and develops new technology-oriented ventures.