Daily Crunch: Robinhood raises $1B – TechCrunch
The big story: Robinhood raises $1B I know the newsletter has been dominated by Robinhood and stock market news for the past few days but, well, so have the headlines. The latest news is that after reportedly tapping its credit lines, Robinhood raised $1 billion in new funding from existing investors. It seems the company needed the money in order to meet regulatory minimums and other requirements tied to users’ trading activity. Meanwhile, the SEC has issued a statement that doesn’t specifically mention Robinhood or GameStop by name, but it says that “extreme stock price volatility has...
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