Robinhood cashes in on lockdown trading surge with $660M Series G funding

Robinhood cashes in on lockdown trading surge with $660M Series G funding

The stock and crypto trading app has added a further $460 million in the last closings of its new funding round. Retail traders have been flocking to trade stocks and cryptocurrencies on the popular app Robinhood — and it shows in the company’s latest Series G funding round.On Sept. 23, a spokeswoman for Robinhood Markets Inc. disclosed that the fintech has increased its latest funding round to $660 million, at a company valuation of $11.7 billion.The fresh funding is an extension of a Series G round first announced in August, when D1 Capital Partners invested $200 million in Robinhood.New....


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