2016年金融科技金融35:乔纳森·科恩戈尔德

随着令人兴奋和变革性金融技术创新的电流波形可能是一个“虚张声势的错觉”两年前云许多战略家和投资者的长远大局的眼光，根据乔纳森·科恩戈尔德。长期与大画面正在定义全球成长型股权公司泛大西洋，它成立于1980年的特点，其科恩戈尔德，其总部设在纽约的金融服务主管，于2001年加入了主要的投资和并购工作，在高盛集团后，。在过去一年中，团队科恩戈尔德已自2012年起引领新发超过十亿$和附加金融服务和fintech投资;该部门是泛大西洋上最大，占总投资的近三分之一。不管炒作周期中，fintech势头正在加速：科恩戈尔德点，亮点等作为商品的新闻和数据提供商阿格斯媒体的多数股权，今年5月宣布和评估该公司在近十亿£（$ 1.2十亿）;and the sale of portfolio company OptionsHouse, announced in July, for $725 million to E*TRADE Financial Corp. The 42-year-old Harvard MBA, who previously oversaw the firm’s health care sector for seven and a half years, says the advantage is going to those able to “differentiate long-term winners from me-too or narrow niche companies — between long-term solutions and point solutions or widgets.” General Atlantic identifies what Korngold terms “secular trends” in such areas as cross-border payments and “insure tech”; looks out over a ten- to 15-year horizon, so it is not locked into typical five- to seven-year venture capital or private equity holding periods; and has a group of about 20 people with deep financial services expertise across a global footprint of 12 offices, among which insights and perspectives are cross-pollinated. “We’ve been on the ground in Mumbai for 15 years,” Korngold notes as context for the firm’s 2015 investment in IIFL Wealth Management, which then had $12 billion in client assets. Eyeing what he calls “huge opportunities to upgrade decades-old solutions” in the insurance industry, General Atlantic in June joined Genstar Capital and TA Associates in investing in Hartford, Connecticut–based software company Insurity.