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About CircleUp Stock
Founded
2011
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA, US
Total Funding
65.1M
Industries
Software, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics
CircleUp is an online marketplace for investing equity into innovative, early-stage consumer product and retail companies. It provides accredited investors free access to direct investment opportunities, diligence tools and industry data insights for an asset class that was previously very difficult to access. For entrepreneurs in the consumer industry, CircleUp offers an efficient way to access a network of sophisticated investors as well as leading retail partners. CircleUp is powered by the Classifier, it's machine learning algorithm, that evaluates deal opportunities based on 90,000 data points, per company, to make decisions about which deals are surfaced to its marketplace of investors.
CircleUp Press Mentions
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Can Data Driven Lending Displace VC Funding For Some Firms?
PYMNTS • Dec 17, 2019
CircleUp Raises $200 Million To Woo Consumer Retail Startups With A VC Alternative: Loans
Forbes • Sep 19, 2019
CircleUp Adds Neil Constable, Former Partner at GMO, As Its First Chief Investment Officer
benzinga • Aug 08, 2019
Constable joins CircleUp
pehub • Aug 08, 2019
We are on the verge of a consumer M&A avalanche
TechCrunch • Nov 16, 2016
Investors in CircleUp
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CircleUp Management
Leadership team at CircleUp
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Ryan Caldbeck
Co-Founder
Rory Eakin
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