Circle is a global internet finance company built on blockchain technology and powered by crypto assets.
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.
Announced Date | Round | Money Raised | Number of Investors | Lead Investors | Post Valuation | |
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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 |
Date
Company Name
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Round | Money Raised | Industry | Lead Investor |
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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 | — |
Investor Name | Lead Investor | Funding Round |
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Alameda Research | Yes | Convertable Note |
Intersection Fintech Ventures | Yes | Series Unknown |
Bitmain | Yes | Series E |
Oak Investment Partners | Yes | Series B |
BlackRock | — | Private Equity(PE) |
Fidelity Management and Research Company | — | Private Equity(PE) |
Fin Capital | — | Private Equity(PE) |
Marshall Wace | — | Private Equity(PE) |
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman | — | Series A |
FTX | — | Series Unknown |
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
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Industry | Acquisition Type | Price | |
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Oct 17, 2017
Trigger Finance
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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 |