Opening access to financial systems and markets
Location: Costa Rica
Total raised: $28M
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Core Innov... | corevc.com... |
| - | GV | gv.com |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 19.05.2015 | Series A | $28M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.08.2015 | Stone & Chalk startup hub open for business | Fintech co-working space Stone & Chalk has finally announced the 41 initial startups that will be housed in the Sydney hub, three months after it first planned to open. At a launch on Tuesday night, the building on Bridge Street was off... |
| 28.05.2015 | Virtual Currency Companies Grapple with Role as Crime Watchdogs for Feds | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints When Chris Morton and his partners co-founded BlockScore in June 2013, they initially planned to get into the business of Bitcoin remittances. That’s a new way to send money v... |
| 19.05.2015 | Ripple Labs Closes $28M Series A Funding | Ripple Labs, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of distributed payments technology and supporters of the Ripple protocol, closed a $28m Series A funding. Backers included IDG Capital Partners, the venture arms of CME Group and global data ... |
| 16.04.2015 | Ripple Labs Hires Brad Garlinghouse As Its COO | Ripple Labs, which develops a payments protocol for value transfer over the Internet, has hired long-time Yahoo executive and former Hightail CEO Brad Garlinghouse as its COO. Garlinghouse joins Ripple Labs as it hits around 100 employees, ... |
| 30.09.2014 | YC’s Altman Thinks Reddit’s Community Ownership Experiment Could Be A Model | The thought of using crypto-currencies to back shares of a company first crossed Y Combinator head Sam Altman’s mind about two years ago. “It was an idle thought that popped into my head,” he said. “It was not until Reddit reached out to me... |
| 27.09.2014 | The Internet’s Missing Link | Stefan Thomas Contributor Editor’s note: Stefan Thomas is the CTO of Ripple Labs where his overarching ambition is to weave a global value web by making it easy for the spectrum of developers — from individual entrepreneurs to financial ins... |
| 24.09.2014 | Ripple’s payment protocol comes to the U.S. | Payment network Ripple Labs just snagged its second and third bank partnerships in a quest to create frictionless global payments. CBW Bank, out of Kansas, and Cross River Bank in New Jersey, both say they will use Ripple to make global mon... |
| 11.08.2014 | Barry Silbert Leads $250k Investment in Indian Bitcoin Startup Unocoin | Unocoin Bitcoin exchange and merchant payment processor Unocoin has closed a $250,000 funding deal with Barry Silbert's Bitcoin Opportunity Corp. The Bangalore-based company has come a long way since launching in December 2013. After dealin... |
| 13.11.2013 | Ripple Labs Raises $3.5M in Funding | Ripple Labs, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of open source payment solutions, raised $3.5m in funding. Backers included Core Innovation Capital, Venture 51, Camp One Ventures and IDG Capital Partners and a number of unnamed individuals.... |