Circle

Circle is a financial technology company founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville, headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong. The company specializes in utilizing blockchain technology and stablecoins for payments and e-commerce, aiming to enhance the efficiency of money transfers through its platform, Circle Pay. Circle also offers a cryptocurrency investment product, Circle Invest, which allows users to buy and sell various crypto assets. Furthermore, the company provides over-the-counter trading services via Circle Trade, operating one of the largest global liquidity pools for digital asset trading, with an average monthly trading volume of $2 billion. Circle is backed by significant investors, including notable figures and firms such as Jim Breyer, Goldman Sachs, and Accel Partners.

Allaire, Jeremy D.

Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman

Elisabeth Bentel Carpenter

COO

Jeremy Fox Geen

CFO

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Hourglass

Seed Round in 2023
Hourglass is an operator of a financial marketplace intended to trade locked-up DeFi assets.

OpenTrade

Seed Round in 2023
OpenTrade is an institutional grade platform for digital dollar lending and yield products. It provides a technology platform, blockchain protocol, API, legal framework, and bankruptcy remote banking and custody infrastructure that enables Web2/Web3 Fintechs to offer fully embedded stablecoin yield products to their customers and better manage their own treasury.

August

Seed Round in 2023
Fractal expands the digital economy by providing institutional grade, capital efficient technology for assets on-chain.

Aptos

Series A in 2022
Aptos is a web3 startup that builds a scalable Layer 1 blockchain that enables developers to design scalable, future-proof apps. The Aptos team consists of a talented group of engineers, researchers, strategists, designers, and constructors. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Lulo

Seed Round in 2022
Lulo is a Defi lending infrastructure that utilizes order book technology and creates a global liquidity layer.

Babel Finance

Series B in 2022
Babel Finance is a global leading cryptocurrency financial institution dedicated to serving high-net-worth individuals and institutional clients worldwide with professional crypto financial services including 3 core businesses: crypto lending, crypto asset management, and crypto prime financing.

KuCoin

Series B in 2022
KuCoin is a prominent cryptocurrency exchange that offers a comprehensive platform for a variety of digital asset transactions. Founded by a team with experience in major financial institutions, it has established itself as a reliable venue for trading a wide range of cryptocurrencies. The exchange features competitive trading fees, including a 0.1% fee per trade and low costs for futures trading. Users can purchase cryptocurrencies using fiat currency through various methods, including P2P trading and debit/credit card services. KuCoin emphasizes security through multilayer encryption, micro-withdrawal wallets, and multi-factor authentication. Additionally, KuCoin Labs serves as the investment and research arm of the platform, further enhancing its ecosystem. Since its inception in 2017, KuCoin has aimed to provide safe and convenient services while integrating premium digital assets from around the globe.

Syndicate

Venture Round in 2022
Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. It creates an investing syndicate for 1000x less time and money. Syndicate is a decentralized investing protocol and social network that's transforming how the world creates value.
YGG SEA is a sub-decentralized autonomous organization (subDAO) of the play-to-earn blockchain game YGG. The YGG SEA will be based on smart contracts built on the Etherum blockchain.

Mina

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Mina is building a privacy-preserving gateway between the real world and crypto — and the infrastructure for the secure, democratic future we all deserve.

Slope Finance

Series A in 2022
Slope Finance develops a mobile decentralized exchange and wallet that allows users to access Solana Pay, engage in decentralized finance, manage non-fungible tokens visually, and perform token swaps. Slope Finance is a full-stack platform built on Solana that includes the sectors of DEX, Wallet, and NFTs, offering users speed, near-zero transaction fees, and an intuitive interface. Slope Finance enables users to create new or import existing Ethereum and Solana wallets, as well as store and clone assets with a single click.

DeHorizon

Venture Round in 2022
With the rapid growth of crypto space, recent developments have greatly facilitated GameFi in going mainstream. "Play to earn" is no longer a mere slogan, but has fully come into reality. Regardless of exponential growth, a common defect in GameFi marketplace is lack of a Metaverse Game Ecosystem to develop, connect and support more and more blockchain-based games even built on different chains. We are still in the early stages of the evolution of GameFi. For the next stage, a Metaverse Game Ecosystem is essential to make GameFi go further. That is why DeHorizon comes.

NFTGo

Seed Round in 2022
NFTGo is a NFT data aggregator where users can find information about NFT, including NFT Drops, ranking, whale tracking, NFT search engine, market data, transaction data, and many more.

Aingel

Secondary Market in 2022
Aingel is an analytics platform that leverages artificial intelligence to identify promising startups and connect them with suitable venture capitalists. The platform features an interactive dashboard and a VC match report that assesses both startups and investors based on over one hundred criteria, incorporating historical data to enhance investment decision-making. By facilitating faster fundraising, Aingel aligns founders with investors who are most likely to provide value and show interest in their business ideas. The platform is utilized by leading data-driven venture capital firms, banks, and fintech companies through its APIs, which streamline the process of startup discovery and analysis. Established in 2016, Aingel is headquartered in San Jose, California.

DeBank

Series A in 2021
DeBank creates a cryptocurrency wallet that gives users access to decentralized finance services like token swapping and portfolio tracking. DeBank allows users to keep track of their DeFi investments, such as how much money they have deposited in various DeFi protocols and how much interest they have earned. DeBank's platform supports 800 DeFi protocols across over 15 blockchains, including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Avalanche.

Multichain

Seed Round in 2021
Multichain is a cross-chain router protocol (CRP) providing a mature real-time CRP system.

XY Finance

Venture Round in 2021
XY Finance creates a customizable widget that can be easily integrated into DApps. Plug to create a single UI that simplifies cross-chain operations and allows access to more users from other chains. It leverages its composable APIs to tap effortlessly into full cross-chain functions and offer users optimized web3 execution services.

Crowdcube

Venture Round in 2021
Crowdcube is an equity crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs of start-ups and growing businesses. Crowdcube enables individuals to invest or loan in small companies in return for equity or an annual return. As an investment crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube enables entrepreneurs to raise finance with the added benefit of being backed by the crowd. For investors, Crowdcube provides a way to handpick a stake in an innovative business that traditionally would have been restricted to corporate investors. Since Crowdcube first pioneered equity crowdfunding in 2011, a total of £300m has been invested through the platform from a crowd of over 390,000 investors, with more than £230m successfully invested in 520 raises. Businesses like the challenger bank Monzo, which raised £1 million in a record-breaking 96 seconds, as well as household brand names such as River Cottage and the Eden Project along with venture capital-backed businesses such as JustPark, eMoov, Sugru and Chip have all successfully raised growth funding from the crowd.

JPYC

Series A in 2021
JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promote capital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.

Airtm

Venture Round in 2021
Airtm is an e-wallet connected to over 300 bank and e-money systems via a peer-to-peer network and direct bank connections. Users hold their money as dollars or cryptocurrency, and can send and receive funds domestically and internationally. Airtm was founded in 2015 with the goal of leveraging digital money to help people in the developing world suffering from currency devaluation preserve their wealth and free their money from disconnected money networks. Headquartered in Mexico City and San Francisco, Airtm is a US-registered money service business.

Geneva

Venture Round in 2021
Geneva is an online home for groups, clubs, and communities of all shapes and sizes. Geneva offers a new communication app that gives groups, clubs, and communities everything they need to come together online, all in one place.

Mammoth

Venture Round in 2019
Mammoth Media is redefining entertainment for the mobile-first generation. Mammoth is the first to produce, distribute and monetize original entertainment apps for the moments of micro-boredom in daily life, and in doing so, delivers revenue, brand value and data-driven insights to content owners and advertisers. Mammoth is the studio behind Yarn, the innovative micro-storytelling platform with stories delivered as text messages. Yarn has become a dominant destination for short-form storytelling with a total of 60 million stories and 8 billion messages read to date. The average user reads 4 times per day for 2 minutes per session totaling 56 minutes in their first week. Users spend 82,000 hours per week reading Yarn stories. Wishbone is Mammoth’s tap-to-vote social networking app where users generate polls and side-by-side comparisons. On Wishbone a total of 80 million cards have been created. The app has an average of 352 million votes per month and a total of 18 billion votes cast to date, reaching 2 million teen girls (12-16) every month. Both Yarn and Wishbone are consistently ranked in the Top 100 App charts in the United States and have collectively touched more than 30% of United States Generation Z and Millennials.

SeedInvest

Acquisition in 2018
SeedInvest is a equity crowdfunding platform that provides investors with access to highly vetted startup investment opportunities. The SeedInvest network contains over 15,000 accredited investors, including hundreds of family offices and institutions. SeedInvest typically invests between $500,000 - $5 million as part of a syndicate.

Hack VC

Venture Round in 2018
Hack VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the cryptocurrency, fintech, and marketplaces sectors. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Poloniex

Acquisition in 2018
Poloniex is a cryptocurrency exchange that offers over 100 bitcoin (BTC) markets available for trading. It provides its customers with a secure trading environment as well as advanced charts and data analysis tools. The platform enables its users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies such as litecoin, namecoin, dogecoin, and more. Users of Poloniex are required to be 18 years of age or older. With no deposit or withdrawal fees, it charges a flat rate of 0.2% on all trading transactions.

Trigger Finance

Acquisition in 2017
Trigger Finance, Inc. develops and offers a mobile investing platform that helps retail investors manage their portfolios through natural language rules and alternative orders. Its product includes an application that creates and set up different financial triggers, which are used to guide investment decisions. The product provides integration and easy to implement code base, and re-built widgets into the page. The company serves developers and financial institutions. Trigger Finance, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York. As of October 16, 2017, Trigger Finance, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Circle Internet Financial, Inc.
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