what's Circle Ventures?
Circle Ventures is the venture capital arm of Circle, a global financial technology company specializing in digital currencies and blockchain infrastructure. It invests in early-stage crypto and Web3 startups, providing capital, strategic resources, and access to a community of builders to foster innovation in open financial systems. The fund supports founders developing protocols, applications, and infrastructure that advance the adoption of stablecoins like USDC and programmable money on blockchains. Backed by Circle's expertise in payments and stablecoin issuance, Circle Ventures focuses on projects driving real-world utility in DeFi, payments, and tokenized assets across multiple ecosystems.
Circle Ventures launched Arc Builders Fund for early-stage teams and participated in RedotPay's Series B.
Invested in Hibachi.
Invested in EdgeX, the team behind EDGE Chain, ahead of its token launch.
Launched the Arc Builders Fund, dedicating funds to support early-stage teams building financial applications on Arc, with focus areas including onchain markets, RWA and private credit markets, onchain FX flows, agentic commerce, and energy and compute protocols.
Participated in RedotPay's $107 million Series B funding round led by Goodwater Capital, alongside Pantera Capital and Blockchain Capital.
Circle Ventures backs idOS_network, an identity layer protocol for stablecoins, alongside Fabric Ventures, Ripple Labs, NEAR, Tezos, Starknet and Radix. idOS_network runs a community sale Nov 24-26 on Arbitrum with KYC deadline Nov 23.