Circle

company

About

Circle is a global internet finance company built on blockchain technology and powered by crypto assets.

Details

Last Funding Type
Convertable Note
Last Funding Money Raised
$10M
Industries
Banking,Blockchain,Cryptocurrency,Financial Services,FinTech
Founded date
Jan 1, 2013
Number Of Employee
501 - 1000
Operating Status
Active

Circle provides an online platform that enables users to send money quickly and easily. Circle uses blockchain technology with Circle Pay to ease and improve how users send money.

Circle expands its services with a crypto-currency investment product with Circle Invest, enabling anyone to buy and sell crypto assets. It provides crypto-coins and offer OTC trading services via Circle Trade. Its crypto-trading desk provides one of the largest global liquidity pools for digital asset trading and averages $2 billion in monthly volume.

Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville founded Circle in 2013. $140 million from investors including Jim Breyer (Facebook), Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital (Baidu, Tencent), General Catalyst (AirBnB, Snapchat) and Accel Partners backs the company, with its headquarters in Boston, and branches in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
12
$1.12B
Circle has raised a total of $1.12B in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Dec 6, 2022 from a Convertable Note round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Dec 6, 2022 Convertable Note $10M 1 Alameda Research Detail
Apr 12, 2022 Private Equity(PE) $400M 4 Detail
Aug 21, 2021 Series A 1 Detail
May 29, 2021 Series Unknown $440M 12 Intersection Fintech Ventures Detail
Jul 30, 2020 Series Unknown $25M 1 Digital Currency Group Detail

Investments

Number of Investments
Number of Lead Investments
12
0
Circle has made 12 investments. Their most recent investment was on Nov 3, 2022, when WalletConnect raised $12.50M.
Date Company Name
Round Money Raised Industry Lead Investor
Nov 3, 2022 WalletConnect
Series Unknown $12.50M Cryptocurrency
Oct 31, 2022 Fluidity Money
Seed $1.30M Blockchain
Sep 22, 2022 Hyperlane
Seed $18.50M Blockchain
Sep 8, 2022 Slide
Seed $12.30M Apps
Jul 20, 2022 Optic
Seed $11M Blockchain

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles
28
Circle has 28 current employee profiles, including Executive Sarah Lucas
Executive
Executive
Employee
Executive
Advisor

Acquisition

Circle has acquired 5 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Trigger Finance on Oct 17, 2017. They acquired Trigger Finance for 0.

Date Company Name
Industry Acquisition Type Price
Oct 17, 2017 Trigger Finance
Apps acquisition Detail
Feb 26, 2018 Poloniex
Bitcoin acquisition Detail
Oct 5, 2018 SeedInvest
Association acquisition Detail
Jun 10, 2022 Cybavo
Bitcoin acquisition Detail
Sep 29, 2022 Elements
Payments acquisition Detail