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Circle (legally Circle Internet Financial Limited) is a peer-to-peer payments technology company that now manages stablecoin USDC, a cryptocurrency the value of which is pegged to the U.S. dollar. It was founded by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville in October 2013.
Chime Financial raised $750 million, also in 2021, that valued it at $25 billion. The last funding round of Circle Internet Financial in April 2022 valued that company at around $8 billion ...
Circle plans to open its new headquarters in One World Trade Center in early 2025, the company said Friday. Circle's move to New York City is another sign that the cryptocurrency industry is ...
The company’s newest effort to go public comes a year after Circle scrapped plans to list shares via a special purpose acquisition company in a deal that would have valued Circle at $9 billion.
Circle announced USDC on May 15, 2018, [6] and it was subsequently launched in September of the same year by Centre, a consortium formed through a joint venture between Circle and Coinbase. [ 9 ] On March 29, 2021, Visa announced its support for USDC, enabling the cryptocurrency to be used for selling transactions within its payment network.
SeedInvest is an equity crowdfunding platform that connects startups with investors online. The company was founded in 2012 and launched in 2013. [2] SeedInvest has focused on building liquidity in the platform by attracting high-net-worth individuals, family offices and venture capital firms. [3]
Circle’s plan was not only to deploy stablecoins as a way for crypto owners to park their funds in dollar-backed tokens, but to modernize the global financial system.
Allaire has said of Circle and Bitcoin, "We want to make this as easy to use as Gmail, Skype, and other consumer services on the Internet today". [16] The company has received over $135 million in venture capital from four rounds of investments from 2013 to 2016, including $50 million led by Goldman Sachs .