Point72 Ventures is a venture capital firm in New York that focuses on companies that are transforming the global financial services industry. Founded 2016 in New York, United States by Steven A. Cohen, it invests in early stage ventures, seed, series B, series A, series C, seed, and other ventures. Its portfolio companies include BluBracket, Acorns, Ualá, Deep 6 AI, and MIRROR. As of February 2020, Point72 Ventures has made 48 investments. Their most recent investment was on February 19, 2020, when BluBracket raised $6.5M. Point72 Ventures has had two exits, the most notable of which include Apprente and DeepScale. Point72 Ventures has raised a single venture fund, Point72 Ventures, LLC Fund I.
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Funded Companies
An artificial intelligence company developing a platform that helps analysts process and understand information.
Unravel, a Palo Alto, California based company, provides full-stack visibility and AI-powered guidance to help users understand and optimize the performance of their data-driven applications.
Acorns is an Irvine, California-based micro-investing company allowing users to round up consumer purchases and invest the change.
Deep 6 AI is an artificial Intelligence company founded by Wout Brusselaers.
A company providing a translation as a service platform allowing enterprises to understand and be understood by their customers. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.
Creditjusto provides an online lending platform to offer credit for SMEs in Mexico.
Netradyne is a company that utilizes artificial intelligence to to work on road and driver safety.
A company offering live streaming and on-demand fitness classes for users in their homes that is headquartered in New York City.
An insurance technology company offering a platform for health insurance and human resources administration.
Roostify is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by Rajesh Bhat.
Vestwell is a Manhattan-based digital retirement platform providing turnkey solutions for financial advisors.
A company providing businesses a way to streamline their finances and access new credit lines.
DeepScale is a company founded in 2015.
Extend is an innovative digital credit card distribution platform that redefines how credit cards are issued and shared
MX is a data company that serves financial institutions and fintech companies.
Tempo Automation is a software-driven factory using data, analytics and automation for prototyping in hardware development environments to manufacture printed circuit board assemblies.
DriveWealth is a Chatham, Kent-based company founded in 2012.
Spherical Defence is s security solution company in San Francisco, California.
People
Ivy Nguyen
Investor
Daniel Kwak
Associate
Dave Matter
Product and Operations, FinTech Ventures
David Dubick
Partner, Enterprise Technologies
Jason Miller
Chief Operating Officer
Kevin Berardinelli
Employee
Matthew Granade
Managing Partner
Steven A. Cohen
Founder
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Bayzat
BluBracket
Credijusto
Deep 6 AI
Flybits
MIRROR
MX Technologies
Sprout Solutions
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