Funding Circle Valued at $1 Billion

Funding Circle, a British online SMB loan marketplace, raised $150m on April 22, 2015.  The round – which was lead by DST Global, BlackRock, and Temasek – valued the company at $1bn.  Funding Circle has now raised a total of $273.2m since its inception in 2009.

Funding Circle is a member of the Triton Research IPO Watchlist, a continuously updating database of companies we expect to either IPO or be acquired.  The current IPO Watchlist is comprised of 104 companies organized by investment theme.