MoonPay Marshals $555M in Series A Funding Round

The round, led by Tiger Global and Coatue, brings the cryptocurrency payment services provider to a post-money valuation of $3.4 billion.

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  • This is the largest Series A funding round for any crypto company, MoonPay said in a blogpost on Monday
  • Other participants in the financing round include Paradigm, Blossom Capital, Thrive Capital and NEA

MoonPay, a cryptocurrency payment services provider, raised a whopping $555 million in Series A funding, the company announced on Monday. This brings the Miami-based startup to a post-money valuation of $3.4 billion, according to a press release. 

The fresh capital will go towards expanding staff, scaling up MoonPay’s crypto payment solutions and its efforts to drive mainstream adoption of the digital asset class at-large, according to co-founder and CEO Ivan Soto-Wright. 

“The raise will provide the funds to continue with our aggressive growth ambitions in markets around the world to support our core goal of giving the next one billion people access to cryptocurrency by 2030,” Soto-Wright told Blockworks. “With this fundraise, we will also grow our world-class team and support an expanding number of innovations in the crypto economy for our partners, creators and users.”

Led by Tiger Global Management and Coatue, other participants in the financing round include Paradigm, Blossom Capital, Thrive Capital and NEA. This is the largest Series A funding round for any crypto company globally, MoonPay said in a blogpost.

“Crypto is growing rapidly, but bringing aboard the next billion people requires services that make it even easier to access,” Matt Huang, co-founder of Paradigm, said in a statement. “MoonPay has built a simple and secure way for people globally to participate in this new economy.”

MoonPay allows users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies using bank cards and mobile wallets. The company made headlines earlier this month for its feature on artists Post Malone and The Weeknd’s music video. “One Right Now” has racked up over 12 million views and features Malone buying a non-fungible token (NFT) via MoonPay’s platform. (Malone owns two Bored Apes, which he purchased for a combined $734,401 or 160 ether.) 

Founded in 2019, the company has onboarded a slew of other celebrities into the crypto world, including Jimmy Fallon. Fallon announced that he used the startup’s services to buy his first NFT, describing “MoonPay [as] PayPal, but for crypto.” 

“This historic financing round is a vote of confidence for what we’re doing and where we’re headed next. It’s proof that people believe in our ability to bring the next billion people to crypto, a way station to our final destination: the moon,” Soto-Wright said.

MoonPay has processed more than $2 billion in transactions and accumulated over 7 million users.


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