Daniel is Managing Partner of Point72 Private Investments, the institutional private investing business of Point72 Asset Management. He oversees Point72 Ventures and leads Point72 Hyperscale, their private equity strategy that seeks to drive value creation through applied AI.
Autonomous drone swarms do have the ability to shift the global superpower balance. Dan Gwak talks more about defense tech in this interview.
Absolutely. If you rewind the clock, fintech was an area that was very hot and we were very active in deploying a lot of capital. Today, the area that’s really come up is defense tech. It’s not just that the market in general has corrected, but rather, I think defense tech, specifically as an opportunity, has really [gained traction] among other venture investors, as well as founders [along with a growing] awareness of the importance of defense tech to the government.