Originally posted on 09/24/2015:

Misc. info
The company received US$76 million in venture capital from 3 rounds of investments from 2013 to 2015, including US$50 million led by Goldman Sachs.[4][5][6]In the April 30, 2015 edition of The New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper wrote that the Goldman Sachs investment "should help solidify Bitcoin’s reputation as a technology that serious financial firms can work with."[7]
In September 2015 the company received the first BitLicense issued from the New York State Department of Financial Services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_(company)