Bitcoin Exchange Kraken Raises $5 Million in Latest Funding Round
Payward, Inc., the owner of US-based digital currency exchange Kraken, announced on 25th March that it has raised $5m in new capital as part of a Series A fundraising round. Kraken, first launched in September 2013, allows users to buy and sell bitcoin, namecoin, dogecoin and Ripple, among other digital currencies. The round was led by Hummingbird Ventures, an early-phase venture capital firm that has invested in digital properties like Dubai-based price comparison platform Souqalmal.com and object-based software defined storage service provider Amplidata in recent months. The funding will....
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Digital currency exchange Kraken has just received a significant amount of capital - $5 million, in fact - in a funding round led by Hummingbird Ventures out of Europe. SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert and Trace Meyer also contributed to the funding round. As one of the top-10 digital currency exchanges by volume, Kraken has gained an enormous amount of attention over the course of the past few months with their slick interface and ability to trade more than bitcoin. Other alt-currencies like litecoin, dogecoin, namecoin, and ripple can be traded on the platform. A result of their....