Steven Cohen is a hedge fund founder who leads Point72 Asset Management as CEO and co-CIO, and also founded Point72 Ventures and S.A.C. Capital Advisors. Steven Cohen's Twitter Score is 128 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #4,871 (top 1%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Steven Cohen founded S.A.C. Capital Advisors, which pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in 2013 and paid $1.8 billion in penalties; per Business Insider, Cohen was never personally criminally charged. Following an SEC ban, Point72 began managing outside investments again in 2018 after the ban lifted. Point72 Asset Management reached $50 billion in assets under management as of 2026, when the firm also formed a new executive committee with Cohen remaining at the helm.
Steven Cohen founded Point72 Ventures as a separate venture firm, with Cohen as its sole investor. The firm sold stakes in fintech startups to a new $280 million continuation fund that included more than $100 million rolled over from Point72, alongside funding from Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Portage principals. Point72 and Point72 Ventures have backed crypto-relevant companies including prediction market Polymarket and crypto infrastructure builder Zerohash, per PitchBook data mentioned by Business Insider; these represent firm-level exposures rather than Cohen's personal angel investments. In 2018, a Point72 Ventures executive noted the firm was not actively investing in cryptocurrency at that time, though Cohen was described as intellectually curious about the space. Steven Cohen is also the owner of the New York Mets.
Steven Cohen has 474,012 followers as of September 2026 on Twitter and has published 826 posts. Steven Cohen has been mentioned by 115 accounts a total of 241 times.
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