{"id":43000,"date":"2026-01-14T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/point72-sells-off-stakes-of-fintech-startups-to-goldman-sachs-and-others\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:11:15","slug":"point72-sells-off-stakes-of-fintech-startups-to-goldman-sachs-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/point72-sells-off-stakes-of-fintech-startups-to-goldman-sachs-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Point72 sells off stakes of fintech startups to Goldman Sachs and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6966dfff764ca5f34d2a6590?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Steve Cohen talks on stage in a New York Mets hat\"\/><figcaption>Steve Cohen is the owner of the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Raedle\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A new continuation vehicle has acquired stakes in Point72&#039;s fintech startups, a press release states.<\/li>\n<li>The new fund raised $280 million, including more than $100 million rolled over from Point72.<\/li>\n<li>Goldman Sachs Alternatives was the biggest outside backer of the new deal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Billionaire Steve Cohen&#039;s Point72 has shed some startups.<\/p>\n<p>The firm&#039;s venture arm, in which Cohen is the sole investor, has sold stakes it owned in fintech startups to a new $280 million continuation fund, according to a press release on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The new fund includes more than $100 million rolled over from Point72, as well as funding from four other investors, including Goldman Sachs Alternatives and the principals of Portage, a fintech investment platform with $5.7 billion in assets. Separately, Portage will also manage some Point72 Ventures assets that are not part of the new fund.<\/p>\n<p>The press release states that Point72 partner Tripp Shriner will become a general partner at Portage as a result of this deal and will oversee the new continuation fund.<\/p>\n<p>The release does not state what companies will now be under the new fund, but PitchBook data shows that Point72 has been a backer of several big-name fintech players, including prediction market Polymarket, Argentine neobank Ual\u00e1, and crypto infrastructure builder Zerohash.<\/p>\n<p>While Point72 will remain a significant investor in the new vehicle, the deal provides some liquidity to Cohen, who is also the owner of MLB&#039;s New York Mets and is in the process of building a casino next to the team&#039;s Queens stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Point72 declined to comment, while Goldman Sachs did not respond to a request to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Cohen is the owner of the New York Mets. Joe Raedle\/Getty Images A new continuation vehicle has acquired stakes in Point72&#039;s fintech startups, a press release states. The new fund raised $280 million, including more than $100 million rolled over from Point72. Goldman Sachs Alternatives was the biggest outside backer of the new deal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}