Circle

Blockchain-Enabled Payments & Cryptocurrency Investing

Founded

2013

Notable Investors

General Catalyst Partners

Headquarters

San Francisco CA, US

Total Funding

$1.3B


About Circle

Circle provides an online platform that aims to enable users to send money quickly and easily. Circle Accounts allow users to send, trade, and invest in both crypto and fiat currencies. The Circle Account is also integrated with Circle's Payments, Payouts, and Accounts APIs. Circle's solutions are suitable for both individuals and organizations.

Circle has branches in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong. Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville founded Circle in 2013. Investors include Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital, General Catalyst, and Accel Partners.

Investors

Accel Partners

Flipkart, Spotify, Jet, Slack, Circle, Dropbox, Netskope, DocuSign, Letgo, Cloudera


Bitmain

Circle


Blockchain Capital

Circle, High Fidelity


BoomStartup

Rappi, Circle


Breyer Capital

Oscar Health, Circle, Shield AI, Stash Financial, Prosper Marketplace, C3 IoT, Grammarly, Etsy, Cleerly, Mark43


China Everbright Investment Management

Circle


CICC

Circle, LanzaTech, Maana


CMT Digital Ventures LLC

Circle, ConsenSys, FalconX, Matrixport, Celo


CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund

Tradeshift, Circle, Fair, Upgrade, Addepar, Figure, Fundbox, Cross River, H2O.ai, Taulia


Digital Currency Group

Circle, Chainalysis, Blockchain.com, eToro, Figure, Brave, Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, Axoni, BitPay, Kraken


Digital Finance Group

Circle, Brave


Fenbushi Capital

Circle, ConsenSys, Lukka, Blockstack


Fenway Summer Ventures

Circle, DriveWealth, Deserve, Nav


General Catalyst Partners

Snap, Jet, Stripe, Anduril Industries, Relativity Space, Devoted Health, Lacework, Oscar Health, Circle, Hopin


Goldman Sachs

WeWork, Alibaba, Spotify, Compass, Pinterest, Bloom Energy, Oscar Health, Circle, Ramp, Automation Anywhere


GS Growth

Tradeshift, Circle, OutSystems, Unqork, Moogsoft, Credijusto, Splice, Deserve, GumGum, Very Good Security


IDG Capital Partners

Circle, Course Hero, Fastly, Braze, Data.ai, Artsy, Matrixport, Ripple, High Fidelity, Smartling


Oak Investment Partners

Circle, One Medical, Enjoy, Sutherland, NextNav, SmartDrive Systems, Thrive Global, FreshBooks


Pantera Capital

Circle, Alchemy, Gemini, Brave, Optimism, Wyre


SharesPost Investment Management

Circle, Marqeta, SoundHound, Lookout, Nextdoor, Sprinklr, Planet, Prosper Marketplace, Crossover Health, Jumio


Tusk Ventures

Bird, Circle, FanDuel, Coinbase, Lemonade, Lyric, Kodiak Robotics, Eaze, Nexar, Care/of


Funding History

August 2013$9.0M
February 2014$17.0M
April 2015$10.0M
April 2015$42.0M
May 2016$69.1M
May 2018$649M
May 2022$527M

Management

Chief Executive Officer

Jeremy Allaire

Chief Financial Officer

Jeremy Fox-Geen

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