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CircleUp

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Crowd-funding platform for consumer and retail companies

San Francisco, United StatesFounded 2012Fintech

Valuation $100–250M Last recorded · 2015

Headcount <100 Current team size

Total funding $50–100M Disclosed equity funding

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About CircleUp

CircleUp is the investment platform providing capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands with a modern, scalable approach to private markets. CircleUp is comprised of internally-managed equity funds, a credit program, and an Insights & Connections team - all powered by Helio, CircleUp's proprietary machine learning platform. Helio collects and analyzes billions of data points to evaluates 1.3 million consumer businesses and predict future business success. Launched in 2012, CircleUp is backed by Union Square Ventures, Collaborative Fund, GV, Canaan Partners, QED Advisors, and former leaders of Goldman Sachs, Capital One and Stanford Endowment. For more information, please visit www.circleup.com.

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At a glance

Status: Acquired
Founded: 2012
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Employees: 20
Open positions: None listed
Dealroom signal: 0.0/100
Industry: Fintech
Sub-industry: Wealth Management
Sector: Fintech, Risk Management, Data Analytics, Performance Management, Crowdfunding, Private Equity, Brokerage, Alternative Investments, Fundraising, Pay Per Result, Investing in Startups
Client focus: b2b, b2c
Investment activity: 85 companies, latest Oct 2022
Capital deployed: $294M
Preferred round: SEED
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Funding history

7 recorded events

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal type	Date	Amount	Valuation	Investors	Source
ACQUISITIONOther financing	Jun 2023	$0	—	Brightflow AI	↗
DEBTDebt	Sep 2019	$200M	—	Undisclosed	↗

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CircleUp website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for CircleUp is 6.8K monthly website visits, up 23.6% over the last three months. CircleUp's team declined 77.3% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits6.8K 3-month web change+23.6% 1-year team growth-77.3%

Monthly website visitsOct 2014–Jul 2026

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