CircleUp Stock
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About CircleUp Stock
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.
Investors
Canaan Partners
Instacart, Snyk, Turo, Dragos, The RealReal, MindTickle, Lending Club, Berkshire Grey, Tomorrow.io, Apartment List
Clocktower Technology Ventures
Chime, Tala, M1 Finance, Jeeves, MoneyLion, Alloy, Bread, Qualia, Nav, CircleUp
Collaborative Fund
Lyft, Reddit, Eat Just, Scopely, Procore Technologies, Getaround, WHOOP, Tala, Earnest, Outschool
GV
Uber, Robinhood, Jet, Impossible Foods, Lacework, Slack, Snyk, SambaNova Systems, DocuSign, Gusto
Maveron
Course Hero, Earnest, Flywire, Imperfect Foods, Allbirds, Madison Reed, Zulily, Tile, Lovevery, Common Living
QED Investors
SoFi, Avant, Nubank, Roofstock, Remitly, MediaMath, Optoro, Signifyd, GreenSky, Prosper Marketplace
Rose Park Advisors
Union Square Ventures
Coinbase, Upgrade, MongoDB, C2FO, Stash Financial, Twilio, Funding Circle, Etsy, CloudFlare, Lending Club
Funding History
| December 2011 | $1.2M |
|---|---|
| April 2013 | $7.6M |
| March 2014 | $15.7M |
| February 2016 | $40.7M |
Management
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Ryan Caldbeck
Co-Founder
Rory Eakin
Chief Investment Officer
Neil Constable
Press
PYMNTS - Dec, 17 2019
Can Data Driven Lending Displace VC Funding For Some Firms?Forbes - Sep, 19 2019
CircleUp Raises $200 Million To Woo Consumer Retail Startups With A VC Alternative: Loansbenzinga - Aug, 8 2019
CircleUp Adds Neil Constable, Former Partner at GMO, As Its First Chief Investment Officerpehub - Aug, 8 2019
Constable joins CircleUpEquityZen does not have an affiliation with, formal relationship with, or endorsement from any companies featured above. This profile is based on publicly available information and is intended to be informative in nature.
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