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Meet the new Point72 Ventures Partners: Tara Stokes

Press Coverage

Coworking: Tara Stokes works to build businesses

News

Meet the new Point72 Ventures Partners – Chris Morales

News

Meet the new Point72 Ventures Partners – Ishan Sinha

Defense Tech • Portfolio News

STOKE Space featured on TIME Magazine’s America’s Top GreenTech Companies 2024

Fintech • Portfolio News

Vestwell and MX featured on Forbes’ The Fintech 50 list

Enterprise • Perspectives

TypeScript – Popular, enterprise ready and an ideal option for AI application development

Consumer • Press Coverage

Business Insider: 16 VCs that are funding the future of entertainment by backing generative AI and other disruptive tech

Defense Tech • Press Coverage

Semafor: Defense tech is having its moment in Silicon Valley

Press Coverage

Business Insider: VCs say 2024 tech trends to watch include more startup shutdowns, a defense-tech renaissance, and the rise of AI winners

Enterprise • Perspectives

Testing Built for AI Software: Our Investment in Distributional

AI • Press Coverage

Business Insider: Meet the rising stars of venture capital, who shook up the industry in 2023

Defense Tech • Press Coverage

America Builds Podcast: Dan Gwak, Managing Partner and Head of Point72 Private Investments

Fintech • Perspectives

Gaming – The Next Big Opportunity in Fintech?

Enterprise • Perspectives

Making Cultural Values Stick – A Guide for Start-Up Founders

Consumer

The Next Technological Shift – Why we believe now is the time to invest in consumer technology

Fintech • Portfolio News

Certa closes $35M Series B to manage Third-Party Vendors

Fintech • Portfolio News

GenTwo Raises $15M Series A led by Point72 Ventures

Defense Tech • Perspectives

Navigating the DoD budget cycle: End-of-year funds present opportunity for Defense Tech startups

Fintech • Press Coverage

Business Insider: 54 up-and-coming fintechs transforming Wall Street and the way consumers bank, trade, invest, and pay, according to 34 top investors

AI • Press Coverage

Data Humanized: Tara Stokes on how generative AI raises the stakes for data skills

Defense Tech • Press Coverage

Strictly VC: Dan Gwak of Point72 Ventures on why defense tech is becoming the next big thing for investors

Enterprise • Perspectives

Authorization Built for Developers: Our Investment in Abbey Labs

Fintech • Press Coverage

Business Insider: Where Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures sees opportunities in fintech, from generative AI to solving gamers’ payments woes

Portfolio News

GlobalComix Raises $6.5m in Series A Funding led by Point72 Ventures to Disrupt and Expand Access to Comics Worldwide

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Prospective Raises $6M Seed to Access, Analyze and Visualize Large Datasets in Real Time

Defense Tech • Perspectives

Meet the Team: Defense Tech

AI • Perspectives

Association of Computational Linguistics Conference (ACL) 2023 – Our Expectations

Defense Tech • Press Coverage

Silicon Valley VCs rush into defence technology start-ups

AI • Portfolio News

Glyphic AI Raises $5.5m to Build AI Copilot Reinventing How Sales Teams Work

Enterprise • Perspectives

Software Bills of Material (SBOMs) – All the right ingredients, but something is still missing

AI • Perspectives

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2023 – Our Expectations

Fintech • Perspectives

10 Fintech Trends from Brazil

Growth • Perspectives

Generative AI is Coming for Real Estate – Why we’re backing EliseAI

AI • Perspectives

Pitch Perfect: Generative Voice and the Future of Content Consumption

Enterprise • Perspectives

A New Chapter for WebAssembly?

Defense Tech • Press Coverage

VCs are betting on defense tech in 2023

Defense Tech • Perspectives

The Defense Tech Revolution – Why we’re investing behind a unique moment in time

AI • Portfolio News

Lexion raises $20M Series B Funding lead by Point72 Ventures

AI • Perspectives

The Transformative Power of ChatGPT in Education: Bringing “The Diamond Age” to Life

AI • Perspectives

Demo Day: Five Tips for Founders

AI • Portfolio News

Hexa Raises $20.5M in Series A Funding Round

Fintech • Portfolio News

Champions Round Raises $7M in Series A Funding

Fintech • Portfolio News

Pagos Raises $34M in Series A Funding

AI • Portfolio News

Vannevar Labs Raises $75M in Series B Funding

AI • Perspectives

Customer Service x Large Language Models

Fintech • News

The fintech reckoning is upon us. Here’s what to expect next year

Perspectives

The Next Dimension of Generative AI

Fintech • Perspectives

Latin America’s financial infrastructure revolution

Growth • Portfolio News

Boulevard named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list

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AI • Perspectives

Generative AI: Context Is All You Need

AI • Portfolio News

PolyAI raises $40m Series B to help put superhuman voice assistants behind every customer service line

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Unravel Data Raises $50 Million Series D Funding

Fintech • Portfolio News

More celebrities like Kourtney Kardashian are turning themselves into department stores. Here’s the platform helping to grow their customer list.

News

Messari Announces $35 Million in Series B Funding at Mainnet 2022 Summit

News

Investors nominate the most promising fintechs with the potential to upend the world of financial technology

Growth • Perspectives

Looking Ahead in Growth-Stage Investing

News

Point72 Ventures Supports Stellar Health and Other Portfolio Companies with Social Impact Partnership

Growth • Perspectives

Our Investment in Boulevard

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Anvilogic Announces $25 Million in Series B Funding to Modernize Security Operations

Fintech • Perspectives

Building Bridges to Crypto

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Permiso emerges from stealth with $10M to tackle the next wave of cloud security

AI • Press Release

Focal Systems Raises $25.8M in Series B Funding to Automate Retail Globally

Fintech • Portfolio News

Zero Hash Raises $105 Million Series D Funding

Fintech • Press Coverage

Point72 Ventures is using its fintech playbook to evaluate potential crypto investments. Here’s how Steve Cohen’s firm is ‘building bridges’ to web 3.0.

Fintech • Press Coverage

8 fintech investors detail the biggest opportunities for the behind-the-scenes startups powering Wall Street

Fintech • Press Coverage

Point72 Venture’s crypto lead Adam Carson says the firm is gearing up to do token deals

Fintech • Portfolio News

Massive wants to rent your spare compute power to pay for apps

AI • Press Release

Lucidum’s Asset Discovery Platform Raises $15M to Help Cybersecurity Professionals

Fintech • Portfolio News

Steven Cohen’s Venture Firm Backs 24-Hour Stock-Trading Startup

Fintech • Portfolio News

London Stock Exchange welcomes SparkChange and HANetf celebrating the launch of the the world’s first exchange-traded product (ETP) backed by physical EU carbon allowances (EUAs)

Fintech • Perspectives

Our Investment in Pagos

AI • Press Release

Tempo Automation Inc., a Leading Software-Accelerated Electronics Manufacturer, Set to Go Public Through Merger with ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp.

Fintech • Press Release

Zero Hash Raises $35 Million in Series C Funding Led by Point72 Ventures

AI • Press Release

Vannevar Labs Announces $12M Series A Funding Round

AI • Perspectives

Building the Next Great Defense Company

AI • Portfolio News

A Rare Military Tech Unicorn Looks Past Afghanistan War

AI • Press Release

Shield AI Raises $210 Million Series D Round

Fintech • Press Release

DriveWealth Raises $450M Series D Valuing the Company at $2.85B

Fintech • Portfolio News

Steve Cohen’s Point72 makes first crypto venture investment, leads Messari’s $21M raise

Fintech • Press Release

Messari Raises $21 Million in Series A Funding

Press Coverage

20 hedge-fund dealmakers who are beating VCs at their own game by pumping billions into the world’s hottest private companies

Fintech • Portfolio News

Vestwell Raises $70 Million in Series C Funding, Led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital and Fin Venture Capital

Fintech • Portfolio News

Vestwell just nabbed $70 million from Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and others as it looks to disrupt employee retirement programs

AI • Portfolio News

Netradyne raises $150M to advance its AI technology

AI • Portfolio News

Netradyne Reimagines Fleet Safety with $150 Million Series C Investment from SoftBank

Fintech • Press Coverage

Social-media influencers are the new SMBs, but they’re underserved. A Point72 Ventures exec says fintechs can fill that gap.

AI • Portfolio News

Construction robotics company Toggle raises $8M

AI • Press Release

Construction Robotics Startup Toggle Raises $8 Million in Series A Funding

Fintech • Portfolio News

Symphony acquires Cloud9 Technologies in bid to expand customer base

Fintech • Portfolio News

Exclusive: Crediverso Raises $3.1M Seed To Be The Credit Karma For The Hispanic Community

AI • Portfolio News

Sweden’s Curb Secures €20 Million To Expand Dark Kitchens Beyond The Nordics

Enterprise • Press Release

BluBracket Secures $12M in Series A Funding to Protect Code from Development to Deployment

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Code-scanning platform BluBracket nabs $12M for enterprise security

Fintech • Portfolio News

Exclusive: Ontop Inks $4.5M Seed So Companies Can Tap Latin America’s Talent

Enterprise • Press Release

Anvilogic Raises $10M Series A For Its Cybersecurity Detection Automation Platform

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Anvilogic raises $10M to scale no-code cyberattack detection platform

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Privacera Raises $50M To Help Companies Control Their Data

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Announcing our Series B Funding of $50M

Enterprise • Press Release

Privacera Secures $50 Million Series B – Advances Cloud-First Data Governance and Security Across Global Organizations

AI • Portfolio News

Away From Silicon Valley, the Military Is the Ideal Customer

AI • Press Release

Shield AI Raises $90 Million in Series C Funding from Point72 Ventures and other investors

Fintech • Portfolio News

Steven Cohen’s Point72 Ventures leads nearly $19M investment in UK-based fintech firm

Fintech • Perspectives

Financially Empowering the Growing Non-Traditional Workforce

Fintech • Press Release

Trade Ledger Raises £13.5 Million in Series A Funding

Fintech • Press Release

Connected Accounting Startup Lockstep Closes $10M Series A

Fintech • Portfolio News

Lockstep raises $10M Series A

Fintech • Press Release

Abound lands $6M to handle contributions to independent benefits

Fintech • Portfolio News

Roostify Series C Funding: We will simplify home lending without compromising on quality and time-to-market

Fintech • Portfolio News

Brace Raises $15.7M Series B Round for Mortgage Platform

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Fylamynt raises $6.5M for its cloud workflow automation platform

Enterprise • Press Release

Fylamynt Launches With $6.5 Million Seed To Automate Cloud Workflows

Fintech • Portfolio News

We’re incredibly excited to welcome Point72 to our board and new strategic partnerships with Marqeta, Yodlee, and Equifax.

AI • Press Release

HelloOffice Announces Company Name Change to Raise, Launches New Product and Service Line

Fintech • Portfolio News

Skipify, Google Partner To Bring Shopping To Gmail

Fintech • Portfolio News

With deposit volume growing 705% in April, MANTL raises $19 million

AI • Portfolio News

HelloOffice bags $20M funding, charts expansion

Fintech • Portfolio News

Digital Banking Platform Tonik Acquires $21 Million in Capital for Q3 2020 Launch in the Philippines

Fintech • Portfolio News

Tonik raises $21 million to launch digital bank in the Philippines

AI • Portfolio News

A programmatic approach to managing healthcare services nets Stellar Health $10 million

AI • Press Release

Stellar Health Secures $10 Million in Series A Funding Led by Point72 Ventures

Fintech • Perspectives

Strategies for banks to respond to COVID-19 by leveraging fintech

Fintech • Press Release

MANTL Raises $8 Million in Series A Funding to Power the Modernization of US Banks and Credit Unions

Fintech • Press Release

Brace Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding Led by Point72 Ventures

AI • Perspectives

Announcing our investment in Deep 6

AI • Portfolio News

We’re proud to be partnering with Point72 Ventures, GSR Ventures, and others on our $17M Series A Funding Round

AI • Press Release

Deep 6 AI Raises $17M Series A Led by Point72 Ventures to Accelerate Clinical Trial Recruitment

Fintech • Perspectives

Taking the friction out of financial services

Fintech • Portfolio News

PH-based HR systems provider raises $6M for expansion

Fintech • Press Release

Bayzat, the Abu Dhabi-Based Tech Startup, Raises $16M in Series B Funding

AI • Perspectives

Our investment in Toggle

AI • Press Release

Construction Robotics Startup Toggle Secures $3 Million in Seed Funding

AI • Portfolio News

Brooklyn-based construction robotics startup Toggle gets $3M seed fund

AI • Portfolio News

Tesla is buying computer vision start-up DeepScale in a quest to create truly driverless cars

AI • Portfolio News

Unbabel gets $60M for its blended approach to business translation

AI • Press Release

Unbabel raises $60M Series C to become the world’s translation layer

AI • Portfolio News

McDonald’s acquires Apprente to bring voice technology to drive-thrus

Fintech • Press Release

Point72 Ventures and Goldman Sachs Lead $42 Million Series B Financing of SME Lender Credijusto in Landmark Transaction for Mexican Fintech

Fintech • Portfolio News

TradingView acquires TradeIt to add instant trading APIs to its investor toolkit

Enterprise • Perspectives

Announcing our investment in Unravel Data

Fintech • Press Release

Fintech Leader ClickSWITCH Secures $13 Million in Series B Funding, Accelerating Growth

AI • Portfolio News

Tempo Automation raises $45M Series C for its turnkey circuit board manufacturing solution

AI • Press Release

Tempo Automation Raises $45 Million Series C Round Led By Point72 Ventures; Adds Strategic Investment From Lockheed Martin

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Unravel Data secures $35 million series C funding to help combine APM with big data muscle

Enterprise • Press Release

Unravel Data Grows Revenue 500% Year-Over-Year, Secures $35M in Series C Funding

AI • Perspectives

Conquering the Speed of Light: Fauna’s $100B Battle for the Cloud Database Market

Fintech • Portfolio News

Vestwell Continues to Redefine Retirement, Announcing a $30 million Series B to Fuel Growth

AI • Perspectives

Building the better call center with PolyAI

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Software Ate the World and Now the Models Are Running It

AI • Portfolio News

PolyAI scores $12M Series A to put its ‘conversational AI agents’ in contact centres

AI • Press Release

PolyAI Raises $12M to Deploy Conversational AI Agents in Contact Centres

Fintech • Press Release

Nav Secures $44 Million in Series C Funding

Fintech • Portfolio News

Contabilizei raises $20 million to ease Brazilians’ tax pain

Fintech • Press Release

Argentine Fintech Ualá Raises $34 Million in Series B Funding

Fintech • Press Release

We’re Celebrating Our $21m Raise

Fintech • Press Release

New Technology Gives Every Shareholder a Louder Voice

Fintech • Press Release

New Technology Gives Every Shareholder a Louder Voice

AI • Press Release

DeepScale Attracts $15 Million Investment To Advance Automated Vehicle Perception

Fintech • Press Release

Roostify Closes $25 Million Series B To Fund Expansion

Fintech • Press Release

Argentine Fintech Ualá Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding

Fintech • Portfolio News

Steven Cohen’s Point72 and Resolute Ventures Back Real Estate Startup

AI • Portfolio News

Our $25M Series A: Building a Database and a Company to Last

Fintech • Press Release

Nav Increases Series B Funding Round to $38 Million; Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments Leads Round Expansion

Fintech • Portfolio News

Microsoft invests in Agolo, a startup that’s fighting information overload with automated summarizations

Fintech • Perspectives

Wall Street Cuts Its Landline

Fintech • Press Release

Cloud Communications Firm Cloud9 Technologies Secures $30M In Funding From A Consortium Including JPMorgan Chase, ICAP, Barclays, And Point72 Ventures

Fintech • Press Release

MX and Moov Bring Faster Account Verification, Money Movement to Fintechs

Fintech • Press Release

Q2 Holdings Makes Digital Account Switching Fast and Easy with Acquisition of ClickSWITCH

Fintech • Portfolio News

Neobank Tonik Officially Kicks off in the Philippines

Fintech • Portfolio News

Roostify Raises $32M Series C For Home Lending Amid Hot Real Estate Market

AI • Portfolio News

Swapp raises $7 million to automate construction planning with AI

Fintech • Portfolio News

Financial-Data Firm MX Quadruples Its Valuation to $1.9 Billion

AI • Press Coverage

Term Sheet readers predict which markets will boom in 2021

Fintech • Portfolio News

Exclusive: Point72-backed Productfy Raises $2.35M For Fintech Apps

Fintech • Press Release

DriveWealth lands $56.7 million Series C funding round to bolster technology, support acquisition strategy

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Exclusive: Anvilogic Lands $4.4M Seed For Collaborative SOC Content Platform

Fintech • Portfolio News

These are the 38 fintechs that investors say are poised to be breakout B2B stars. Meet the startups they think will follow in the footsteps of Plaid and Stripe.

Fintech • Perspectives

It’s time to disrupt financial technology

Enterprise • Portfolio News

Unravel Opens Up $35 Million Series C

Enterprise • Press Release

Armorblox Announces $16.5M Financing

Enterprise • Press Release

BluBracket Announces $6.5M in Seed Funding

Enterprise • Press Release

Data Governance and Security Leader Privacera Secures $13.5 Million in Series A Funding

Fintech • Perspectives

Point72 Ventures: Flybits

Fintech • Press Release

Flybits Secures $35M Investment from World’s Top Financial Institutions

AI • Press Release

Fauna Raises $25M in Series A Funding, Led by Point72 Ventures

AI • Press Release

Artificial Intelligence Leader, Netradyne, Raises $21 Million in Series B Funding, Accelerating Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Improving Road and Driver Safety

AI • Press Release

Tempo Closes $20M Series B to Build New Connected Factory in San Francisco For Electronics Manufacturing

Fintech • Press Coverage

Fintech Finance’s Power Players

Enterprise • Perspectives

Announcing our third focus area: Enterprise Technologies

AI • Press Release

inVia Robotics Raises $20 Million Series B Funding for Warehouse Automation Robots

Fintech • Portfolio News

Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures leads $21M venture capital round in Flare

Press Coverage

Models Will Run the World

Press Coverage

Hedge funds fight back against tech in the war for talent

Press Coverage

Cohen-backed venture capital firm eyes emerging technologies

Fintech • Portfolio News

Steve Cohen is backing a former Amex exec solving a financial pain point facing 35% of the American workforce

Fintech • Portfolio News

Term Sheet – Tuesday, April 24

Fintech • Portfolio News

Point72 leads $3 mln seed financing round for Extend

Fintech • Portfolio News

Steve Cohen is backing a ‘virtual credit card’ app

Press Coverage

While tragedy surrounds some billionaires, others are breaking new ground

Press Coverage

Hedge fund manager Cohen heads east to ‘swing big’ with Point72 Ventures

Fintech • Press Coverage

Steve Cohen is plowing into fintech

Press Coverage

Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures backs new trading site that combats high-speed traders

Press Coverage

Steven Cohen Targets High-Frequency Trading With ‘Dark Pool’ Venture

Press Coverage

Steve Cohen Invests in Dark Pool Aiming to Defang Speed Traders

Press Coverage

We talked to Steve Cohen’s right-hand man about Point72 Ventures’ latest investment, tech on Wall Street, and cryptocurrency

Fintech • Portfolio News

Point72-Backed Start-Up to Rock the Proxy Vote

AI • Portfolio News

Point72 invests in artificial-intelligence firm

Fintech • Portfolio News

Steve Cohen’s VC firm led a $21 million investment in a startup that wants to power free stock trading