HQ
Founded Round date Round amount Valuation
San Francisco
2010
Nov. 2016
$150M
$9.2B
San Francisco
2011
Feb. 2017
$500M
$4.4B
San Francisco
2007 June 2015
$175M
$3.5B
New York
2013 Feb. 2016
$400M
$2.7B
Chicago
2012 Sept. 2015
$325M
$2B
San Mateo, CA 2006 Sept. 2017
$55M
$1.9B
San Francisco
2012 Aug. 2017
$108M
$1.6B
Charlotte
2000 June 2017
$300M
$1.4B
Palo Alto
2012 April 2017
$110M
$1.3B
Atlanta
2009 Aug. 2017
$250M
$1.3B*
San Francisco
2014 June 2017
$130M
$1.2B
* estimated
** Two companies have been omitted. Zenefits and Mozido reached $4.5B and $2.4B valuations, respectively,
with their most recent rounds. But given troubles at each company, it's very unlikely they've retained those
valuations.
Sources: PitchBook (As of 10/20/2017)
Trends and investment opportunities to watch out for in the fintech industry:
• Blockchain technology, including Etherium, a distributed ledger technology
(DLT) that maintain records on a network of computers, but has no central
ledger. A future of financial industry dominated by blockchain is not hard to
imagine, it is only a matter of time leading to wide adoption of blockchain
technology by central banks. Various finance industry giants have shown
increasing interest in blockchain-related technology (including crypto
currencies) lately.
• Cryptocurrency and digital cash - a form of digital currency that uses
blockchain technology and operates in a decentralized network format.
• Smart contracts, which utilize computer programs (often utilizing the
blockchain) to automatically execute contracts between buyers and sellers.
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