{"id":59420,"date":"2022-03-31T09:38:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T06:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59420"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:44:22","slug":"bloomberg-blockchain-com-valued-at-14-billion-after-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bloomberg-blockchain-com-valued-at-14-billion-after-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: Blockchain.com valued at $14 billion after funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The exchange and cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain.com closed a funding round for an undisclosed amount. Based on its results, the company&#8217;s valuation reached $14 billion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-03-30\/blockchain-com-in-talks-for-new-funding-at-14-billion-valuation\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The funding round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The financing was also provided by Baillie Gifford and other investors.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2021 the firm <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blockchain-com-raises-300-million-at-a-5-2-billion-valuation\">was valued at $5.2 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/about\">the company\u2019s website<\/a>, its services are used by 37 million users across 200 countries. About a third of Bitcoin transactions pass through 82 million wallets opened on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Chief Financial Officer Makrina Kigl did not rule out <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blockchain-com-eyes-ipo-in-2023\">an IPO in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, in March 2022 Blockchain.com <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blockchain-com-buys-otc-platform-altonomy-for-250-million\">acquired<\/a> the OTC platform Altonomy for $250 million.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blockchain-com-announces-its-own-nft-marketplace\">announced<\/a> the launch of an NFT marketplace.<\/p>\n<p> Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exchange and cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain.com closed a funding round for an undisclosed amount. Based on its results, the company&#8217;s valuation reached $14 billion, Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59421,"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-59420","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":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59420","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=59420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59422,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59420\/revisions\/59422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}