{"id":36615,"date":"2021-02-17T19:47:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36615"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:15:08","slug":"blockchain-com-raises-120-million-in-round-led-by-google-ventures-and-other-macro-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/blockchain-com-raises-120-million-in-round-led-by-google-ventures-and-other-macro-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain.com raises $120 million in round led by Google Ventures and other macro investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain.com raised $120 million in financing from macro investors, including Moore Strategic Ventures, Google Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and others.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m excited to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blockchain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Blockchain<\/a> has raised a $120M strategic growth round led by leading macro investors.<\/p>\n<p>Read full post here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wTPgHOa27P\">https:\/\/t.co\/wTPgHOa27P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(1\/11) Thread \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Smith (@OneMorePeter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OneMorePeter\/status\/1362028809692700673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe company\u2019s chief executive, Peter Smith, noted \u201cenormous optimism\u201d about cryptocurrencies among institutional investors.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe participation of leading macro investors in our latest funding round proves that institutional investors are taking a strategic approach to the cryptocurrency industry,\u201d added Smith.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The head of the company noted an unprecedented level of distrust in traditional financial institutions during the pandemic, an acceleration of online commerce and a fundamental shift in communications, investments and trading that \u201cwill forever change the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Blockchain.com added support for the Russian ruble, bitcoin deposits and fiat loans.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain.com raised $120 million in financing from macro investors, including Moore Strategic Ventures, Google Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[996,1133],"class_list":["post-36615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-com","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36617,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615\/revisions\/36617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}