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kraken
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At a glance
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning kraken.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed3 investors entered at this stage
- RVRoger Ver
Blockchain Capital- JPJesse Powell
Series A6 investors entered at this stage
- MRMeni Rosenfeld
- TMTrace Mayer
- TVTrammell Ventures
- KBKevin Bombino
- PGPamir Gelenbe
- JFJimmy Furland
Series B and later21 investors entered at this stage
- AMApollo Global Management
Tribe Capital- 2B2bgc
- CRCrosesell
9Yards Capital- CFC1 Secondaries Fund
Jane Street Capital
- RPRIT Capital Partners
Hummingbird Ventures- HSHSG
- DCDRW Venture Capital
Citadel Securities- SCSkyvision Capital
- OPOppenheimer
- ICInvestbridge Capital
- VGVenture Garage
- ACAndra Capital
- SCSBX Capital
- HSHSG
- RMRaison Asset Management
Digital Currency Group
Ownership
Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.
Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former kraken employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Arjun SethiUnited States
AMAvian Labs | Sling MoneyEst. 2022
Simon AmorUnited Kingdom
PWPiP WorldEst. 2022
Saad Bachir Al NajaUnited Arab Emirates
Bobby BlackstockUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
1 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 kraken was the backer or acquirer, 2016–2026. 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.
84 deals across kraken's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where kraken 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.
kraken'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 kraken 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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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.