Exclusive: Crypto exchange Kraken raises $200 million from Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities to notch $20 billion valuation
One of the world’s largest crypto exchanges has raised a huge stash of capital from a blue chip financial titan. The Wyoming-based Kraken secured $200 million in a strategic investment from Citadel Securities, the nearly 25-year-old market maker, a Kraken spokesperson confirmed to Fortune. The investment valued the crypto exchange at $20 billion.
The round comes shortly after Kraken closed an earlier round of financing in September in which it raised $600 million at a $15 billion valuation from a fleet of Wall Street and Silicon Valley mainstays including Jane Street, DRW, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia Capital China), Oppenheimer, Tribe Capital, and the family office of Arjun Sethi, Kraken’s co-CEO.
The Kraken spokesperson also…
