CircleUp

Fintech · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2012

Crowd-funding platform for consumer and retail companies MoreLess

CircleUp is the investment platform providing capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands with a modern, scalable approach to private markets. CircleUp is comprised of internally-managed equity funds, a credit program, and an Insights & Connections team - all powered by Helio, CircleUp's proprietary machine learning platform. Helio collects and analyzes billions of data points to evaluates 1.3 million consumer businesses and predict future business success. Launched in 2012, CircleUp is backed by Union Square Ventures, Collaborative Fund, GV, Canaan Partners, QED Advisors, and former leaders of Goldman Sachs, Capital One and Stanford Endowment. For more information, please visit www.circleup.com.

Valuation $100–250M

Headcount <100

Total funding $50–100M

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Talent graph

CircleUp's talent

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Team profiled 62 named & role-tagged

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 2 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

17 investors on CircleUp's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 8 investors entered at this stage

David Topper

Yan-David Erlich

Maveron

Jerry Gramaglia

Rose Park Advisors

Ooga Labs

Silas Capital

FinTech Sandbox

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage

Union Square Ventures

Canaan

Series B+ 7 investors entered at this stage

Collaborative Fund

Jon Winkelried

Jungju Kim

Nigel Morris

Thomas Glocer

QED Investors

John Powers

Global footprint

Where CircleUp has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

3 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States71.4%

🇮🇳 India14.3%

🇿🇦 South Africa14.3%

3 countries shown

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about CircleUp

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about CircleUp on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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