Circle

Circle is a financial technology firm that leverages blockchain technology and stablecoins to facilitate payments and e-commerce. Founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville, Circle enhances the way users send and receive money through its platform, Circle Pay. The company offers a cryptocurrency investment product called Circle Invest, enabling users to buy and sell various crypto assets. Additionally, Circle provides over-the-counter trading services through Circle Trade, featuring one of the largest global liquidity pools for digital asset trading, with an average monthly volume of $2 billion. Backed by significant investments from notable firms, Circle operates from its headquarters in Boston and has branches in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong.

Allaire, Jeremy D.

Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman

Elisabeth Bentel Carpenter

COO

Jeremy Fox Geen

CFO

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Octane

Seed Round in 2025
Octane is a developer-focused platform that leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence to battle-test smart contracts.

Codex

Seed Round in 2025
Codex is a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.

Hashnote

Acquisition in 2025
Hashnote is a regulated investment management platform focused on decentralized finance (DeFi). It offers a comprehensive suite of cryptocurrency-based transactions, exchanges, and financial services. The platform is designed for institutional investors, providing both U.S. and international clients with customizable exposure to digital assets. Hashnote emphasizes transparency and full-service support, ensuring users experience zero counterparty risk while implementing tailored risk and reward strategies.

Shinami

Seed Round in 2024
Shinami is a developer platform focused on facilitating the creation of decentralized applications within the web3 ecosystem. The company provides a node-as-a-service solution that allows applications to connect with the sui network, ensuring dynamic scalability and reliability. This infrastructure enables businesses to develop and deploy applications efficiently, leveraging enterprise-grade resources. By powering the next generation of decentralized apps, Shinami aims to drive innovation in the evolving landscape of web3 technologies.

Kravata

Seed Round in 2024
Kravata is a pioneering crypto as a service company in Latin America, specializing in providing businesses with the tools needed to launch compliant cryptocurrency solutions efficiently and affordably. By offering a simple API integration, Kravata allows businesses to incorporate cryptocurrency functionalities into their applications or websites. Its platform infrastructure facilitates the safe buying and selling of cryptocurrencies, enabling businesses to enhance their revenue streams and attract more users. With a focus on leveraging blockchain potential, Kravata equips clients with a comprehensive platform to trade cryptocurrencies instantly, making it easier for them to adapt to the evolving digital finance landscape.

Anzen

Seed Round in 2024
Anzen creates decentralized finance infrastructure powering the first private credit backed stablecoin

zkMe

Pre Seed Round in 2023
zkMe operates a verification network platform that focuses on managing online identity and personal information through zero-knowledge Identity Oracles. This technology enables truly decentralized and anonymous cross-chain credential verifications, ensuring that users maintain full control over their digital identities. By processing no personal information beyond what the user provides, zkMe eliminates the risks of data leaks and misuse by service providers. The platform allows users to selectively disclose their credentials to authorized parties while preserving their privacy. Additionally, zkMe stands out as a fully decentralized KYC provider compliant with FATF regulations, offering a comprehensive suite of products, including solutions for anti-bot and anti-sybil measures, along with KYC services.

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.

Huma

Seed Round in 2023
Huma operates an on-chain credit platform that facilitates lending to businesses and individuals. By connecting high-performing receivables with global financing, Huma enables clients to access loans secured by tokens as collateral. The platform emphasizes transparency and accessibility, allowing users to tokenize and trade cash flow while leveraging credit on a blockchain system. This innovative approach aims to create a thriving financial ecosystem that enhances the way clients manage their financial resources.

MSafe

Seed Round in 2023
MSafe develops a multi-signature, non-custodial digital assets management solution built on Move. They focus on true decentralization, enhanced security, and full interoperability.

Revio

Seed Round in 2022
Revio was founded in 2020 to help businesses collect more revenue, through reducing payment failures and recovering lost revenue. Through a single API, we optimise merchants’ payment stacks with locally-optimised payment methods and smart payment routing, failover, and retries. We understand that there is more to getting paid than accepting payments, and believe that how you engage customers when trying to collect a failed payment is as important as when you are trying to acquire them. Our Recovery solution builds on this insight, empowering businesses with data-driven omnichannel interaction workflows to recover at-risk revenue from their customers. Today, we’re helping some of Africa's largest brands and fastest-growing startups increase their revenue through increased payment success rates, customer retention, and lifetime value. Locally grounded but globally relevant, we aim to be the go-to revenue recovery and growth partner for businesses across emerging markets.

Veax

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Veax is a provider of a traditional finance-empowered decentralized exchange.

Fluidity Money

Seed Round in 2022
Fluidity Money is a blockchain incentive platform that rewards users with yields for using their cryptocurrency. It seeks to solve DeFi's utility problem by introducing a novel incentive mechanism that rewards users for on-chain transactions. Users can wrap stablecoins in Fluidity in exchange for the fluid counterpart of that stablecoin. This can be USDC, for example, which becomes fUSDC. This works with a variety of stablecoins, including DAI, USDT, and Frax. The yield distributed via transactions is derived from lending out the underlying assets on money markets. When USDC is wrapped, fUSDC is created, and the principal is lent out.

Arf

Seed Round in 2022
Arf operates a liquidity platform designed for financial institutions involved in cross-border payments. The company provides short-term, revolving, and digital asset-based credit lines, aiming to enhance access to liquidity in the global market. By eliminating the capital-intensive model traditionally associated with cross-border transactions, Arf offers a settlement banking platform that allows licensed money service businesses and financial institutions to conduct international money transfers efficiently. Its services are characterized by transparency, with no hidden fees and real, fair exchange rates, alongside native on-ramp and off-ramp capabilities for digital assets.

Blackbird

Seed Round in 2022
Blackbird Labs is a web3 hospitality technology platform founded in 2022 by Ben Leventhal and based in New York, United States. The company focuses on directly connecting restaurants with their customers through loyalty and membership services. By leveraging innovative software solutions, Blackbird Labs aims to enhance the dining experience, facilitating meaningful and ongoing interactions between restaurants and their guests. The platform is designed to transform how hospitality businesses engage with their clientele, ultimately elevating customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Elements

Acquisition in 2022
Elements is a payments orchestration platform for merchants and developers.

END-Labs

Seed Round in 2022
END-Labs is a blockchain development studio focused on creating Web3 lending infrastructure. The company develops a suite of blockchain-based products aimed at transforming financial interactions by connecting fiat-native borrowers with institutional decentralized finance (DeFi) capital to enhance capital efficiencies. Its platform is designed as an application-specific blockchain that supports a variety of decentralized applications, allowing these applications to work together within the broader blockchain ecosystem. This integration enables borrowers to identify the most cost-effective sources of capital and optimize terms based on the assets they intend to use as collateral.

Cybavo

Acquisition in 2022
Cybavo offers secure cryptocurrency custody and digital asset management solutions tailored for enterprises and financial institutions. Founded in 2018 by experts in cybersecurity and blockchain, the company develops advanced digital asset custody services through a custom operating system and patented encryption technology. Cybavo's solutions cater to cryptocurrency exchanges, digital asset managers, and custodians, providing them with a highly secure environment for managing digital assets. The company's focus on security enables clients to effectively prevent malicious attacks, theft, and loss, ensuring a reliable platform for digital asset management. With a team of experienced developers and researchers, Cybavo aims to enhance the safety and usability of cryptocurrency custody for its clients.

Slope Finance

Series A in 2022
Slope Finance is a decentralized exchange and wallet platform built on the Solana blockchain, designed to facilitate crypto trading and management. It provides users with access to Solana Pay, decentralized finance features, and tools for visual management of non-fungible tokens. The platform offers a decentralized automated full limit order book, allowing for fast token swaps and transactions with near-zero fees. Users can create new wallets or import existing ones from Ethereum and Solana, enabling them to store and manage digital assets seamlessly. With its intuitive interface that resembles centralized exchanges, Slope Finance aims to enhance the user experience in the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency market.

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.

TipLink

Seed Round in 2022
TipLink is a financial platform designed to simplify the distribution of digital assets, particularly cryptocurrencies. Users can create an account and generate a unique link to send crypto easily to anyone through various communication platforms, similar to purchasing a gift card. The service allows individuals to connect their preferred crypto wallet and deposit the desired amount for transfer, eliminating the need for the recipient to have a wallet. This streamlined approach offers a secure and cost-effective solution for managing and sharing digital assets, making it convenient for customers to transform their cryptocurrencies according to their needs.

DeBank

Series A in 2021
DeBank is a cryptocurrency wallet designed to facilitate access to decentralized finance (DeFi) services, enabling users to manage and track their DeFi investments effectively. The platform supports over 800 DeFi protocols across more than 15 blockchains, including Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. Users can monitor their asset portfolios, compare interest rates, and analyze risks associated with their investments. DeBank also offers features for token swapping and discovering new investment opportunities through detailed real-time data, allowing users to gain insights into their financial activities and optimize their returns in the DeFi space.

XY Finance

Venture Round in 2021
XY Finance is a developer of an innovative aggregator that facilitates cross-chain exchange services, comprising two main components: X Swap and Y Pool. X Swap enables users to perform cross-chain transfers and exchanges seamlessly, while Y Pool offers liquidity solutions that enhance the efficiency of transferring crypto assets across different blockchains. Additionally, XY Finance provides a customizable widget designed for easy integration into decentralized applications (DApps), creating a unified user interface that simplifies cross-chain operations. By leveraging its composable APIs, XY Finance ensures users have access to comprehensive cross-chain functionalities and optimized web3 execution services, ultimately broadening user accessibility across various blockchain networks.

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. is a mobile investing platform focused on assisting retail investors in managing their portfolios through natural language rules and alternative orders. Launched in 2015 and based in New York, the platform enables users to set financial triggers that guide investment decisions, offering real-time alerts and execution across various asset classes, including stocks, bonds, and commodities. The application integrates alternative data sources, such as social media streams, global economic events, and regulatory filings, to enhance investment strategies. With tens of thousands of users managing over $270 million in assets, Trigger Finance aims to empower investors to capture new opportunities and make informed decisions. The company operates as a subsidiary of Circle Internet Financial, Inc.
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