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Circle
Helps businesses and developers harness the power of stablecoins for payments and internet commerce worldwide
At a glance
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Listing
- Public via SPAC 2022
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Circle.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later30 investors entered at this stage
- BOBoomStartup
- GHGlenn Hutchins
IDG Capital- SPSam Palmisano
- FCFin Capital
- MWMarshall Wace
- IVIntersection Fintech Ventures
Digital Currency Group
Bitmain- MPMichael J. Price
- TVTusk Ventures
Fidelity Investments- CRCreditEase
- OIOak Investment
- WAWillett Advisors
Baidu- PVPillar VC
BlackRock
Coinbase- CMChina Everbright Investment Management
Pantera Capital- FVFenway Summer Ventures
FTX- MBMichele Burns
Blockchain Capital
Goldman Sachs- ACAtlas Merchant Capital
Valor Capital Group- LSLeonard Schrank
CICC
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Circle employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Matt VenablesUnited States
Brice StaceyUnited States
Lucio TudiscoUnited Kingdom
Joe RobinsonUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
37 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Circle was the 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.
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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Circle on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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