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Cohen Circle
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Cohen Circle is an investment firm founded by Betsy Cohen and her son Daniel Cohen that has provided capital to late-stage fintech companies since 2015. It invests across the capital structure in fintech, technology, and impact spaces, including taking companies public via SPACs and making venture investments from pre-seed onward.
Invests inFintechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfintechinsurtechproptechenterprise softwarespacimpact
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Or find every investor that fitsCohen Circle lists 30 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (49%), AI & Machine Learning (18%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (10%). 81% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Nyca Partners and Sterling Road.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Cohen Circle, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Cohen Circle's whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 30. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 68th | 30 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 58th | 3% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 83th | 49% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 49% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 10% | 6% |
| Enterprise Software | 10% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
| Food & Agriculture | 2% | 3% |
| Consumer | 2% | 3% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 2% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 5 |
| Nyca Partners | 3 |
| Sterling Road | 3 |
| TTV Capital | 3 |
| Activant Capital | 2 |
| Anthemis | 2 |
| Capital One Ventures | 2 |
| Commerce Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2997%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company13%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Cohen Circle head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Cohen Circle| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 4 Sept 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Cohen Circle
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Cohen Circle's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
30 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arta brings together AI, investment products, and wealth infrastructure in one platform, powering a new generation of wealth experiences for individuals and financial institutions. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Greenwood Bank is closing all accounts and inviting members to open a new account with DreamFi | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| BillGO makes payments simple for small businesses by processing same-day bill payments with ease, speed and security. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| CardConnect provides payment solutions and merchant services | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Crstl automates order-to-cash workflows between brands, retailers, and logistics partners using AI-native EDI and supply chain commerce platform | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Curve provides a digital wallet that combines all a user's cards into a single, secure wallet, allowing them to switch cards after a purchase and skip hidden foreign exchange fees. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Duetti buys, manages, and markets music catalogs for artists and songwriters around the world. | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a bitcoin rewards app that allows users to bank, spend, and earn bitcoin | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| H2O.ai provides a platform for running sovereign AI in various environments, including on-premises, private cloud, and cloud | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an operating system for Agentic Commerce, including embedded checkout and other commerce tools for platforms. | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides mortgage software for lenders | FintechReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Instnt provides insurance to financial institutions to cover losses due to identity fraud | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Intermex provides money transfer services to Latin America. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides mobile and internet services to individuals and businesses. | Enterprise SoftwareConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| LendAPI provides loan origination and servicing software for banks, credit unions, and lenders | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Nova Credit provides a platform to access unified consumer credit data from multiple sources | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ocrolus provides an AI workflow and analytics platform for lenders to automate financial decisions and underwriting processes. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Payoneer provides a global payment platform for businesses to receive and send payments in various currencies. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Proximitty provides an AI operating system for commercial lending, handling tasks such as document ingestion, credit analysis, and portfolio monitoring. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
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About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- cohencircle.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 4 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 30
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