Bitcoin Exchange Kraken Secures Multi-Million Dollar Deal from SBI Investment
Global bitcoin exchange Kraken has secured a multi-million dollar agreement with SBI Investment, the venture capital arm of SBI holdings, the world’s first internet-based financial conglomerate. The deal comes less than two weeks after Kraken’s acquisition of Coinsetter and Cavirtex, two of the most prominent exchanges in the U.S. and Canada. With a strong strategic partner like SBI investment, Kraken hopes to reach yet another milestone in 2016. Over the next few months, the bitcoin firm will focus on scaling its business worldwide, establishing necessary infrastructure and resources to....
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Just after its big merger with North American Bitcoin exchanges, Coinsetter and Cavirtex, Kraken has announced a multi-million dollar deal with the leading Japanese firm SBI Investment. The $2 billion dollar venture capital conglomerate will lead Kraken’s series B investment round. Today the global Bitcoin exchange Kraken has joined forces with SBI....
Bitcoin Exchange Kraken Lands Multi-million Dollar Investment from Japanese Venture Capital Firm SBI
Bitcoin exchange Kraken announced a multi-million dollar agreement with SBI Investment, one of Japan’s leading and most respected venture capital firms, to invest in and lead the Series B round of financing in Kraken. SBI Investment is the venture capital arm of SBI Holdings, the world’s first Internet-based financial conglomerate. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. SBI Investment is a unit of SBI Holdings, an Internet-based financial conglomerate with operating revenues of more than $2 billion in 2015 and operating income of around $570 million. The SBI Group consists of 208....
Japan’s leading venture capital firm SBI Investment has been revealed as the lead investor in the Series B round of financing in bitcoin exchange Kraken. In an announcement via a press release today, bitcoin exchange Kraken revealed it had secured a “multi-million dollar agreement” with SBI Investment. The exact terms of the deals weren’t disclosed. SBI Investment is the venture capital arm of parent company SBI Holdings, a conglomerate that deems itself as the world’s first internet-based financial group of the kind. The conglomerate is made up of some 208 companies with revenues of $2....
Japanese venture capital firm SBI Investment is leading a Series B funding round in bitcoin exchange Kraken. While the terms of the deal were not disclosed, Kraken said that a “multi-million dollar” investment had been agreed upon with SBI. Kraken did not say when it expected the Series B round to be completed. “It’s a fantastic first step toward completing Series B, which will ultimately enable us to scale our business worldwide,” said Kraken CEO Jesse Powell. SBI Investment is the venture capital arm of SBI Holdings, an Internet-based financial group that reported an operating revenue of....
One of the largest bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, Kraken, has announced an investment from a leading Japanese foreign exchange brokerage, in the exchange’s Series B round of financing. Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has announced an investment from Tokyo-based Money Partners Group as a part of its Series B round of financing, in a press release today. Money Partners Group holds a market cap of over $260 million and is among the leading foreign exchange brokerages in Japan with over 270,000 client networks. The terms of the investment were not disclosed. This would mark....