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Circle

960 employees

Circle is a financial technology firm that utilizes stablecoins for payments and e-commerce.

Investor insights

Sectors invested in

Blockchain9
Cryptocurrency6
Financial Services6
FinTech5
Finance3
DeFi2
NFT2
Payments2
Information Technology2
Lending2
blockchain2
Identity and Zero-Knowledge1
Enterprise Software1
DAO1
Borrower Optimization Protocol1
Structure1
DeFi Fund Management1
Mortgages1
Auto Lending1
Trade Finance1

Funding rounds participated in

$6.4M sweet spot round size

Most of their 19 investments are in rounds between $2M and $12M

Basic info

Industry

financial services

Sectors

stablecoins
consumer finance
Financial Services
blockchain
digital currency
Blockchain
FinTech
Banking
Cryptocurrency
fintech
crypto

Date founded

2013

Investments made

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zkMe raised $2M on May 29, 2023

Investors: NGC Ventures, The Spartan Group, Fenbushi Capital, CMS Holdings, LLC, ArkStream Capital and Circle

U

Undisclosed raised $4.2M on May 15, 2023

Investors: Tribe Capital, Electric Capital, Hack VC and Circle

O

OPENTRADE raised $1.5M on May 4, 2023

Investors: -, Kronos Research, Outlier Ventures, Sino Global Capital and Circle

H

Huma Finance raised $8.3M on February 23, 2023

Investors: Distributed Global, Race Capital, Folius Ventures, ParaFi Capital and Circle

T

TipLink raised $6M on February 21, 2023

Investors: Multicoin Capital, Paxos and Circle

U

Undisclosed raised $5M on January 5, 2023

Investors: SV Angel, The Spartan Group, Jump Crypto, Shima Capital, Superscrypt and Circle

R

Revio raised $1.1M on November 25, 2022

Investors: Quona Capital, Two Culture Capital, Rally Cap Ventures, The Delta, Speedinvest and Circle

V

Veax Labs raised $1.2M on November 17, 2022

Investors: Parabolic, -, Tacans, Qredo, Skynet Trading, Outlier Ventures and Circle

F

Fluidity Money raised $1.3M on October 31, 2022

Investors: Lemniscap, Koji Capital, Multicoin Capital, SkyVision Capital, Meld Ventures and Circle

A

Arf raised $13M on October 26, 2022

Investors: Stellar Development Foundation, NGC Ventures, 500 Emerging Europe, Blockchain Founders Fund, Hard Yaka, Signum Consulting LLP, Fenbushi Capital and Circle

Funding rounds raised

Total raised

$440M

from 40 investors over 40 rounds

C

Circle raised $400M on April 12, 2022

Investors: Fin Capital and Marshall Wace

C

Circle raised $10M on January 1, 2022

Investors: Alameda Research

C

Circle raised $440M on May 28, 2021

Investors: Willett Advisors LLC, FTX, Valor Capital Group, Pillar VC, Intersection Fintech Ventures, Digital Currency Group and Marshall Wace

C

Circle raised $25M on July 30, 2020

Investors: Digital Currency Group

C

Circle raised undisclosed on August 30, 2018

Investors: 10X Capital

C

Circle raised undisclosed on June 21, 2018

Investors: CMT Digital and DFG

C

Circle raised $110M on May 15, 2018

Investors: Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, Pillar VC, Pantera Capital, Tusk Ventures, IDG Capital Partners and Digital Currency Group

C

Circle raised $60M on May 13, 2016

Investors: 中国光大投资管理有限责任公司, IDG Capital Partners, Fenbushi Capital, 中金公司, CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund, Tusk Ventures and General Catalyst

C

Circle raised $50M on April 30, 2015

Investors: Breyer Capital, Fenway Summer, Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, General Catalyst, IDG Capital Partners and BoomStartup

C

Circle raised $17M on March 26, 2014

Investors: Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, Pantera Capital, Fenway Summer and Digital Currency Group

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