Retail merchants have been flocking to commerce shares and cryptocurrencies on the favored app Robinhood — and it reveals within the firm’s newest
Retail merchants have been flocking to commerce shares and cryptocurrencies on the favored app Robinhood — and it reveals within the firm’s newest Sequence G funding spherical.
On Sept. 23, a spokeswoman for Robinhood Markets Inc. disclosed that the fintech has elevated its newest funding spherical to $660 million, at an organization valuation of $11.7 billion.
The contemporary funding is an extension of a Sequence G spherical first introduced in August, when D1 Capital Companions invested $200 million in Robinhood.
New and stalwart buyers within the app have reportedly been concerned within the extension, amongst them Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, DST International, Ribbit Capital and 9Yards Capital.
The spokeswoman indicated that the capital can be used “to help our core product and buyer expertise and new choices like money administration and recurring investments.”
Reuters’ calculations utilizing PitchBook information estimate that Robinhood has now raised roughly $1.25 billion from buyers and secured a complete quantity of capital in extra of $2 billion to this point.
Whereas locked-in merchants could also be feeding demand for the app’s companies and elevating investor confidence, the trip in current months hasn’t at all times been clean.
As reported in April, Robinhood was regarded as searching for to lift the extra capital in response to the platform’s stresses in March, when it crashed 3 times throughout peak buying and selling. Many merchants reported heavy losses, having been unable to entry their accounts and demanded compensation.
Robinhood started compensating among the merchants affected through the March disruptions, although the corporate declined to disclose what number of customers had been affected.