Today we are pleased to announce that Coinbase has raised $75 million in Series C financing, the largest funding round to date for a Bitcoin company. This brings our total capital raised to $106 million.
The round was led by DFJ Growth, with participation from our existing investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, and Ribbit Capital.
Three of the world’s most respected financial institutions – The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of USAA, and BBVA (a large multinational bank) also invested in the round alongside personal investments from former Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit and former Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer. This marks the first time that financial institutions have made a major investment in a Bitcoin company.
The round saw participation from a number of other strategic partners who will accelerate our international expansion, including DoCoMo Capital, a division of Japan’s largest mobile telecommunications operator.
Today’s fundraise gives us solid growth capital to continue driving mainstream, global adoption of Bitcoin. We are honored to be joined by such a prestigious group of investors and remain focused on helping Bitcoin continue to grow in 2015 and beyond.
75 εκατομμύρια δολάρια χρηματοδότησης για το Coinbase
Το Coinbase ανακοίνωσε ότι εξασφάλισε 75 εκατομμύρια δολάρια από επενδυτές και πλέον γίνετε το πρώτο Bitcoin startup που λαμβάνει ένα τόσο μεγάλο ποσό χρηματοδότησης από τις αγορές. Ανάμεσα στους επενδυτές είναι γνωστά ονόματα των αγορών όπως
Ribbit Capital
Union Square Ventures
We have been thinking about and looking to make an investment in the Bitcoin ecosystem for several years. Today, we are happy to be able to talk about our first investment in the sector. We have made an investment in Coinbase along with our friends at Ribbit Capital, SV Angel and Funders Club.
We believe that Bitcoin represents something fundamental and powerful, an open and distributed Internet peer to peer protocol for transferring purchasing power. It reminds us of SMTP, HTTP, RSS, and BitTorrent in its architecture and openness. Like what happened with those other low level protocols, entrepreneurs and developers are now building technology on top of Bitcoin to make it more useful, more accessible, and more secure.
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BBVA Ventures
Με τον Executive Director Jay Reinemann, του μεγάλου τραπεζικού ομίλου BBVA να δηλώνει ότι είναι μια επένδυση για να κατανοήσουν καλύτερα την τεχνολογία του Bitcoin
“This is unfortunately not an announcement that we’re opening up the bank to do that, it’s moreso a precursor. We need to better understand the industry and understand how merchants and consumers are interacting with bitcoin.”
The New York Stock Exchange
DFJ Growth Fund
Ο επενδυτικός όμιλος του γνωστού επενδυτή στο Bitcoin Tim Drapper
Andreessen Horowitz
USAA
Vikram Pandit
Πετυχημένος χρηματιστής και πρώην Ceo του ομίλου Citigroup
Tom Glocer
Πρώην Ceo της Thomson Reuters
DoCoMo
Μεγάλος όμιλος τηλεπικοινωνιών της Ιαπωνίας
Και ανακοίνωση για την πετυχημένη χρηματοδότηση από το Blog του Coinbase