Circle (acquirer) portfolio

Circle (acquirer) has 7 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 2 investments in the last 12 months.

X: @circle.

Type: Corporate investor.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 7.

Deals, last 12 months: 2.

Capital in their rounds: $56M.

Latest deal: Cyclops · Jul 1, 2026.

About this page

It is a corporate investor. Its most recent investment on record is Cyclops's $20M Series A round in July 2026, alongside Coinbase, Castle Island Ventures, Nava Ventures and 2 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Stablecoins (2) and Crypto payments (2). It has co-invested with CoinFund, Variant and F-Prime Capital, most often CoinFund (2 rounds).

What Circle invests in

Stablecoins · 2 · 29%
Crypto payments · 2 · 29%
L1s, L2s and rollups · 2 · 29%
DEXs and AMMs · 2 · 29%
NFTs and collectibles · 2 · 29%
Trading tools and bots · 1 · 14%
Crypto x AI · 1 · 14%
Health and bio · 1 · 14%

Circle recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
CCyclops	Series A · $20M	Jul 1, 2026	Coinbase, Castle Island Ventures, Nava Ventures +2
TTazapay	Series B+	Mar 26, 2026	none named
LLI.FI	Series A · $17.5M	Mar 30, 2023	Factor Capital, L1 Digital, Abra +6
BBlackbird	Seed	Oct 7, 2022	Mischief, Shine Capital (lead), Flamingo Capital +5
HHyperlane	Seed · $18.5M	Sep 22, 2022	Galaxy Ventures, Kraken Ventures, NFX +4

How Circle invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series A	2 40%	$37.5M
Seed	2 40%	$18.5M
Series B+	1 20%	undisclosed

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2022	2 40%	$18.5M
2023	1 20%	$17.5M
2026	2 40%	$20M

Circle portfolio companies

CCyclops$20MSeries A · Jul 2026
TTazapaySeries B+ · Mar 2026
LLI.FI$17.5MSeries A · Mar 2023
BBlackbirdSeed · Oct 2022
HHyperlane$18.5MSeed · Sep 2022
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Company	Round with Circle	Total raised	Latest raise
CCyclops Stablecoins	Jul 1, 2026 Series A · $20M	$28M	Jul 1, 2026 Series A
TTazapay Stablecoins	Mar 26, 2026 Series B+	undisclosed	Mar 26, 2026 Series B+
LLI.FI DEXs and AMMs	Mar 30, 2023 Series A · $17.5M	$52M	Dec 11, 2025 Series A
BBlackbird Health and bio	Oct 7, 2022 Seed	$74M	Apr 8, 2025 Series B+
HHyperlane DEXs and AMMs	Sep 22, 2022 Seed · $18.5M	$18.5M	Apr 22, 2025 Series A
NNftgo NFTs and collectibles	backer	undisclosed	—
DDroplinked NFTs and collectibles	backer	undisclosed	—

Most frequent co-investors

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Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Stablecoins).

How this is counted

Share is of the 5 rounds on Recent Funding that name Circle. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Circle, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/circle (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.