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| Private | |
| Industry | Bitcoin marketplace/exchange |
| Founder | Cedric Dahl, Bennett Hoffman[1] |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, U.S.[2] |
Number of locations | 1 office |
Area served | USA |
Key people | Cedric Dahl (CEO) Bennett Hoffman (CTO) Kevin Zhou (Head Economist) Kevin Adams (Lead Developer) |
| Services | Buy, sell, and trade bitcoin |
| Total assets | ~$1.6 million (2013)[3] |
Number of employees | 4 (2013)[4] |
| Website | Buttercoin.com |
Buttercoin is a private American start-up company that provides digital currency exchange services to the US.[2][3] Specifically, Buttercoin operates a full order book trading platform for buying and selling bitcoins.
Funding
Y Combinator, Google Ventures (Kevin Rose and Chris Hutchins), Floodate, Initialized Capital, Rothenberg Ventures, and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian invested approximately $1 million into Buttercoin.[1][4] A Swiss company, Centralway Ventures, invested an additional $250,000 into Buttercoin.[3] Combined with other sources, Buttercoin raised a total of $1.6 million as of September 2013.[3] Subsequently, Buttercoin raised an undisclosed sum from Wedbush Securities, making it the first bitcoin company to receive investment from a large Wall Street institution. [5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cutler, Kim-Mai (August 20, 2013). "YC-Backed Buttercoin Uses Bitcoin To Attack The $500B-A-Year Remittances Economy". TechCrunch. Retrieved November 30, 2013. Italic or bold markup not allowed in:
|publisher=(help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Reutzel, Bailey (September 9, 2013). "Buttercoin Takes a Different Path to Handling Virtual Currency". PaymentsSource. Retrieved November 30, 2013. Italic or bold markup not allowed in:
|publisher=(help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Lomas, Natasha (September 18, 2013). "Swiss Company-Builder Centralway Opens $50M Fund, Invests $250k In Bitcoin Whitelabel Exchange Buttercoin". TechCrunch. Retrieved December 1, 2013. Italic or bold markup not allowed in:
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- ↑ Kharif, Olga (November 17, 2014). "Bitcoin Startup Buttercoin Draws Wedbush as Investor". "Bloomberg". Retrieved December 9, 2014.
External links
- Buttercoin Official website
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