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$5bn+

Capital raised

20+

Portfolio companies

5

Public exits

65%

women or diverse team members

20+

Year avg. experience across our team

$5bn+

Capital raised

20+

Portfolio companies

5

Public exits

65%

women or diverse team members

20+

Year avg. experience across our team

$5bn+

Capital raised

20+

Portfolio companies

5

Public exits

65%

women or diverse team members

20+

Year avg. experience across our team

Our story

Cohen Circle

Cohen Circle is an investment firm founded by financial services pioneers, Betsy Cohen and her son Daniel Cohen. Since 2015, the firm has provided transformative capital to late stage fintech growth companies.

Today, we make investments across the capital structure in the fintech, technology, and impact spaces, with $5bn+ in capital raised.

Our decades-long experience as founders, operators, and innovators uniquely positions us to capitalize and transform companies through our significant network and expertise.

our strategies

We invest across the capital structure to back exceptional management teams building innovative companies

Private-to-Public Investing

We provide transformative capital to exceptional late stage growth companies to bring them to the public markets via special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
Sector Focus: FinTech, Technology.

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Venture Investing

We provide differentiated, value-add capital to early to late stage companies in sectors we know best.
Sector focus: FinTech, Financial Services (Impact), Health (Impact)

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portfolio companies

Meet the next generation of innovators

Arcus

Exit
Venture

October 12, 2022

Exit
 Venture

Payments platform focused on building the next generation of payment solutions.

Arcus was acquired by Mastercard (NYSE: MA) on November 24, 2021.

Founders: Edrizio De La Cruz, Inigo Rumayor Belausteguigoitia, Juan Jose Maldonado

Year Founded: 2011

Investment Date: September 2020

HQ: New York, NY

Website

Exit
Venture

Payments platform focused on building the next generation of payment solutions.

Arcus was acquired by Mastercard (NYSE: MA) on November 24, 2021.

Founders: Edrizio De La Cruz, Inigo Rumayor Belausteguigoitia, Juan Jose Maldonado

Year Founded: 2011

Investment Date: September 2020

HQ: New York, NY

Website

Arta

Venture

October 12, 2022

Venture

Digital family office platform.

Founders: Caesar Sengupta, Charles Dong, David Shapiro, Edward Chiang, Felix Lin, Mark Striebeck, Zelidrag Hornung

Year Founded: 2021

Investment Date: October 2022

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Website

Venture

Digital family office platform.

Founders: Caesar Sengupta, Charles Dong, David Shapiro, Edward Chiang, Felix Lin, Mark Striebeck, Zelidrag Hornung

Year Founded: 2021

Investment Date: October 2022

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Website

BillGO

Venture

October 12, 2022

Venture

Bill management & payments platform.

Founders: Dan Holt, Scott Miller, Kelly Seidl, Pete Kight

Year Founded: 2015

Investment Date: July 2020

HQ: Fort Collins, CO

Website

Venture

Bill management & payments platform.

Founders: Dan Holt, Scott Miller, Kelly Seidl, Pete Kight

Year Founded: 2015

Investment Date: July 2020

HQ: Fort Collins, CO

Website

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TEAM

Get to know the Cohen Circle Team

Betsy Cohen

Co-Founder

Betsy has 50+ years experience running companies and investing across the capital markets. She founded three banks, including the Bancorp, where she was CEO for 15 years before founding Cohen Circle to support the next generation of fintech leaders.

Daniel Cohen

Co-Founder

Daniel is the co-founder of Cohen Circle and The Bancorp. He has over 20 years of experience as an operator and investor. Daniel also founded Cohen & Company, an asset manager with $2.2 billion of AUM.

Amanda Abrams

Chief Executive Officer

Amanda is the CEO of Cohen Circle and joined the team from CardConnect after she and the Cohens took the integrated payments company public in 2016. She has 15+ years’ experience as an investor, operator, advisor, and lawyer with companies in both the public and private sectors.