Circle
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Overview
Circle is a financial technology firm that utilizes stablecoins for payments and e-commerce. 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 offers 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.
Highlights
Founded
2013
Industry
Financial Services
Employees
501-1000
Investment
31
Lead Investment
2
Exits
1
Stages
Seed, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Investor Type
N/A
Location
United States, North America
Contact Information
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Profile Resume
Circle, established in 2013 and headquartered in United States, North America., specializes in Seed, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture investments across Internet, Web3, FinTech, Payments, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Foreign Exchange Trading, Information Services, Information Technology, Software. The organization boasts a portfolio of 29 investments, with an average round size of $16.4M and 1 successful exits. Their recent investments include Ripple, NEAR, Gnosis, Radix, Kwil. The highest investment round they participated in was $62.1B. Among their most notable exits are Ripple and NEAR. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.
Investment portfolio
Circle has made 31 investments. Their most recent investment was on Mar 07, 2024, when Kravata raised $3.6M.
Circle has made 2 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on Jan 05, 2023, when MSafe raised $5.0M.
investments
31
Diversity investments
2
Lead investments
2
Number of exits
1
Investments
31
| Annouced Date | Organization Name | Industry | Money Raised |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 08, 2024 | Superform Labs | Service Industry | 6.5M |
| Mar 07, 2024 | Kravata | Software | 3.6M |
| May 01, 2024 | - | - | 47.0M |
| Jul 09, 2024 | - | - | 4.5M |
Exits
1
Funding Timeline
Funding rounds
31
Investors
51
Funds
1
Funding Rounds
31
Circle has raised 31 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jul 09, 2024 from a Seed Round - idOS round.
| Annouced Date | Transaction Name | Number of Investors | Money Raised | Lead Investor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 08, 2024 | Seed Round - Superform Labs | - | 6.5M | - |
| Mar 07, 2024 | Seed Round - Kravata | - | 3.6M | - |
| May 01, 2024 | Series C - Securitize | - | 47.0M | - |
| Jul 09, 2024 | Seed Round - idOS | - | 4.5M | - |
Investors
66
Circle is funded by 66 investor(s). 2Shares and Coinbase Kantor are the most recent investors.
| Investor Name | Lead Investor | Funding Round | Money Raised |
|---|---|---|---|
Fidelity | No | Private Equity Round - Circle | 400.0M |
BlackRock | No | Private Equity Round - Circle | 400.0M |
Coinbase | Yes | Corporate Round - Circle | 0 |
2Shares | No | Secondary Market - Circle | 0 |
Fund raised
2
Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.
| Annouced Date | Fund Name | Money Raised |
|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2013 | OTPPLESS | 1.0M |
| May 11, 2013 | OTPPLESS | 1.0M |
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