Tagged: peter thiel

September 5, 2025 @ 7:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brex, a $12 billion fintech startup backed by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, is laying the groundwork for a European expansion as it prepares for a potential initial public offering (IPO). The San Francisco-based company, known for its innovative corporate credit card and spend management solutions,… Read More

February 23, 2024 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA), a firm focused on supporting and securing the Bitcoin ecosystem, has launched Slipstream, a direct Bitcoin transaction submission service designed to streamline confirmations of large or non-standard Bitcoin transactions. By default, Bitcoin nodes frequently “exclude large and non-standard transactions from… Read More

June 29, 2023 @ 5:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda has announced that Bitpanda Pro, their digital asset exchange for institutions and “seasoned” investors, is rebranding and becoming ‘One Trading.’ Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vienna, Bitpanda is one of the most successful digital asset firms in Europe. After a €30m Series A… Read More

March 2, 2022 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany’s banking challenger N26 should be ready for an initial public offering (IPO) by the end of this year, according to co-CEO Maximilian Tayenthal, Maximilian told CNBC that by the end of 2022, N26 should be “structurally IPO-ready,” During an interview with the media outlet… Read More

September 4, 2021 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Point Card, the “high-reward” debit card, reveals that it has finalized a Series B round that was led by Peter Thiel‘s Valar Ventures. Other investors in Point Card’s latest investment round include Breyer Capital, YC Continuity, and Human Capital. Point completed a $10.5 million Series… Read More

August 25, 2021 @ 2:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Even though Bitcoin had shown some positives until recently, there are reasons for concern, GlobalBlock sales trader Marcus Sotiriou said this week. Sotiriou said Bitcoin closed another day above the 200-day moving average on Monday, while also completing a support/resistance flip of the $48,000 level… Read More

August 3, 2021 @ 11:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cryptocurrency wealth platform Vauld has completed a $25 million Series A round led by Valar Ventures, a VC firm cofounded by Peter Thiel. Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, CMT Digital, Gumi Cryptos, Robert Leshner and Cadenza Capital also participated. The funding will be used to hire… Read More

July 15, 2021 @ 8:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based Syfe, a digital or online wealth management company, has secured SGD 40 million through a Series B round. Syfe‘s investment round has been led by US-headquartered Valar Ventures, the VC fund co-founded by Peter Thiel, which led Syfe’s Series A round and was the… Read More

July 11, 2021 @ 1:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bullish, a tech firm focused on creating financial services for the digital assets sector, recently revealed its plans to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) via a merger with Far Peak Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: FPAC), a special purpose acquisition company or SPAC…. Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Deposit Solutions, a Germany based Fintech unicorn, has announced its launch in the US market. According to a release, its consumer savings portal SaveBetter connects American banks digitally with savers, targeting the $16 trillion U.S. deposit market. Prominent US entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel is… Read More

January 9, 2020 @ 6:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Qonto, a neo-bank for business account holders that was established in France in 2017, has expanded its operations into Germany, Italy, and Spain. Notably, Qonto was the recipient of the first investment by billionaire Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures in France during its Series A funding… Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 4:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Equidate has rebranded to become Forge Global, Inc. (Forge). Forge is an online marketplace for pre-IPO securities, like Spotify, Lyft, 23 and Me and others. Forge reports having topped $1 billion in transactions. Alongside the change of name Forge announced the expansion of its Series B funding… Read More

January 29, 2019 @ 2:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Petal, a credit card startup pioneering “Cashflow Underwriting” as an alternative to traditional credit scoring, secured $30 million through its Series B funding round, which was reportedly led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures. This news comes just one year after Valar Venture led Petal’s $13 million… Read More

December 19, 2018 @ 10:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crypto investment and infrastructure platform, Layer1, announced on Wednesday it secured $2.1 Million through its latest seed funding round, which was backed by various investors, including Peter Thiel, Digital Currency Group, and Jeffrey Tarrant.  Layer1 describes itself as a cryptoasset investment and infrastructure platform that… Read More

August 16, 2018 @ 12:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Deposit Solutions, a Germany-based opening banking and international platform for savings deposits, announced on Wednesday it secured $100 million through its latest investment round, which was led by Vitruvian Partners with participation from Kinnevik and existing shareholders including Deposit Solutions‘ first institutional shareholder e.ventures. The funds reportedly bring… Read More

July 18, 2018 @ 10:09 am By Cali Haan  |  

Following recent reports that it has established capacious bitcoin mining farms in Washington State and Quebec, the Beijing-based Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain is now renting offices in a Silicon Valley office tower called Riverpark Towers, CCN reports. Bitmain will occupy the last available vacancy in… Read More

July 16, 2018 @ 3:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Block.one, the creator of the EOSIO (EOS) blockchain protocol, announced on Monday that venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel has invested in the company, along with other notable investors, Bitmain, Louis Bacon, and Alan Howard. According to Block.one, the investment round follows an earlier round… Read More

June 29, 2018 @ 7:42 am By Cali Haan  |  

Every year, the foundation started by tech billionaire Peter Thiel gives away a total of $2 million dollars to 20 outstanding young and promising technology entrepreneurs, “young people who want to build new things instead of sitting in the classroom.” The money is granted in… Read More

May 1, 2018 @ 11:57 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Mike Cagney, the former SoFi CEO, raises $50M for Figure, his new fintech venture focused on home equity lending, reported Bloomberg. Cagney left Sofi late last year as the platform was upended with legal challenges regarding accusations of allowing a “sexually charged corporate culture that condones… Read More

April 2, 2018 @ 4:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

Author’s note (August 22, 2019): I came upon this article I wrote early on in recent days, and would like to add that I am considerably less enthused now about cryptocurrencies than I was when I wrote th9s article- as I hope we all are…. Read More