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Circle
Fintech · Boston, United States · Founded 2013 Decacorn
Circle mafia
Startups founded by Circle alumni
Former Circle employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Matt VenablesUnited States
Joe RobinsonUnited States
James Sei₿ElUnited States
Paul Yacoubian.United States
Tom HennesseyUnited States
Aaron D. MarksUnited States
Raagulan PathySingapore
Paul KimUnited States
Joshua LimUnited States
Nikhil ChariUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Circle has talent and traffic
(17 of 1,433 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$7M patent portfolio · 56 active families
Where Circle concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Circle and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Circle's 90 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Circle appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2017–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
90 deals across Circle's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Circle deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Circle's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Circle
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Circle on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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