Circle Ventures
VC Fund
Circle Ventures is a VC fund focused on FinTech and Payments. Circle Ventures is Circle's venture investment arm, dedicated to backing early-stage crypto and blockchain founders building the future of on-chain finance and programmable commerce. It supports a community of crypto founders by investing in scalable financial primitives, infrastructure, and applications leveraging USDC and stablecoin ecosystems. The fund emphasizes real traction, product-market fit, and regulatory-savvy scaling.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
Last updated:
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Industries Circle Ventures invests in
Stages Circle Ventures invests in
Countries Circle Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 3 (60%)
- Payments 3 (60%)
- Financial Services 3 (60%)
- B2B 2 (40%)
- Information Technology 2 (40%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (60%)
- Series A 1 (20%)
- Series B 1 (20%)
Country
- Singapore 2 (40%)
- Australia 1 (20%)
- South Africa 1 (20%)
- United States 1 (20%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jeremy Allaire
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO
|
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Jeremy Allaire
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO
|
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO | Total investments: 4 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| CrissCross provides regulated financial infrastructure for enterprise cross-border payments and foreign exchange. Its unified API supports local collections, payouts, cross-border settlement, bulk disbursements, invoice payments, and multi-currency accounts. The company also provides corporate treasury tools for real-time foreign exchange management, OTC trading access, and automated reconciliation. Its collections services support revenue collection and payouts to international partners. CrissCross serves global merchants, platforms, brokers, exchanges, and corporate treasury teams operating across African and other emerging-market corridors. | Seed / Oct 26, 2026 | ||
| EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3. | $6M / Seed / Jun 17, 2026 | ||
| Tazapay is a global payments infrastructure platform headquartered in Singapore that enables businesses to collect, hold, and pay seamlessly across borders through a single, compliant, and scalable platform.With one integration, Tazapay provides access to local payment methods in 70+ markets, card coverage in 170+ countries, and multi-currencybusiness accounts in 35+ currencies. The platform also supports stablecoin interoperability, acting as a fiat bridge between traditional finance and digital assets, enabling businesses to adopt modern settlement methods without compromising on compliance.Tazapay’s modular offering spans checkout, virtual accounts, treasury, and payouts, with real-time routing technology for 24/7 collections and settlements in 70+ markets. Its infrastructure is built with institutional-grade compliance, fraud protection, and FX solutions, making it trusted by enterprises and platforms worldwide. | $25.5M / Series B / Mar 26, 2026 | ||
| EdgeX A is a high-performance perpetual DEX with CEX-like speed and liquidity. | Seed / Jan 10, 2026 | ||
| Conduit is a better way for global businesses to simply and cheaply move money with faster speed, better visibility and fewer steps than traditional payment rails.Why choose Conduit? With the Conduit payments platform, your entire team has the tools they need to move money between USD and multiple local Latam currencies. Our dashboard issimple to use, with better transparency and faster, more exact quotes than alternatives. | $36M / Series A / May 28, 2025 |
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FAQ
What does Circle Ventures invest in?
Circle Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Payments and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Circle Ventures?
The team at Circle Ventures includes Jeremy Allaire (Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO) and Jeremy Allaire (Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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