2025-11-26
Does this make us the Lean Startup?
Reuters
Harmonic, an AI math startup co-founded by Vlad Tenev, raised a $120M Series C led by Ribbit at a $1.45B valuation, bringing its total funding to $295M
Krystal Hu / Reuters :
Mathematical superintelligence is coming faster than predicted.
Reuters
Harmonic, an AI math startup co-founded by Vlad Tenev, raised a $120M Series C led by Ribbit at a $1.45B valuation, bringing its total funding to $295M
Krystal Hu / Reuters :
2025-09-06
It's an exciting milestone to have Robinhood join the storied S&P 500 Index. I'll share what I told the team today — we don't stop to celebrate, our single focus remains building exceptional products for our customers.
CNBC
AppLovin stock jumps 7%+ and Robinhood jumps 8%+ in extended trading after S&P Global said the two will join the S&P 500 index on September 22
When most people hear “Standard & Poor's … Blockchain.News : Robinhood (HOOD) Added to S&P 500 on Sept 22: What Index Inclusion Means for Traders Ronaldo Marquez / Bitcoinist.com :...
2025-08-03
We're playing the long game. Tokenization isn't a trend. I believe it's the foundation of what's next. Thank you @Forbes and @ninabambysheva for the feature: https://www.forbes.com/... [image]
Forbes
A profile of Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, whose personal fortune has surged 6x over the past year to $6.1B, as the company leans into tokenized stock derivatives
Nina Bambysheva / Forbes :
2025-07-11
We're building superintelligence of the mathematical kind. Announcing @HarmonicMath's $100M Series B led by @kleinerperkins, with participation from @paradigm and many other great investors Welcome @ilyaf ... excited to partner (again) https://www.businesswire.com/ ...
Bloomberg
Harmonic, a startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev to build an AI model that outperforms humans in math, raised a $100M Series B at an $875M valuation
Kate Clark / Bloomberg :
2024-06-07
We believe crypto will fundamentally reorganize the financial system, and we're acquiring @Bitstamp to accelerate our vision. Soon we'll combine forces with Bitstamp's global footprint, core spot exchange and industry-leading products like crypto-as-a-service, institutional...
Wall Street Journal
Robinhood plans to acquire crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M, in a deal expected to close in H1 2025, and says Bitstamp would still operate under its own brand
Caitlin Ostroff / Wall Street Journal :
2024-06-06
We believe crypto will fundamentally reorganize the financial system, and we're acquiring @Bitstamp to accelerate our vision. Soon we'll combine forces with Bitstamp's global footprint, core spot exchange and industry-leading products like crypto-as-a-service, institutional...
Wall Street Journal
Robinhood plans to acquire crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M, in a deal expected to close in H1 2025, and says Bitstamp would still operate under its own brand
Move comes a month after SEC notice of a potential lawsuit over the brokerage's crypto offerings
2024-05-08
While we strive to maintain positive and productive relationships with our regulators, if necessary we will use our resources to contest this matter in the courts, with the intent of both defending our crypto business and establishing regulatory clarity in the United States for...
Decrypt
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev decries a “regulatory onslaught” and calls US SEC actions “another improper attempt by the administrative state to stifle innovation”
Though Robinhood Crypto thought its “safety-first” approach was distinct, the SEC said that enforcement action is on its way.
Over the last three years, we've reached a state of regulatory onslaught that is harmful to American companies and consumers. The SEC's continued attack on crypto, coupled with recent rule proposals like the one related to predictive data analytics, mark yet another improper attempt by the administrative state to stifle innovation.
Decrypt
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev decries a “regulatory onslaught” and calls US SEC actions “another improper attempt by the administrative state to stifle innovation”
Though Robinhood Crypto thought its “safety-first” approach was distinct, the SEC said that enforcement action is on its way.
2024-05-07
Over the last three years, we've reached a state of regulatory onslaught that is harmful to American companies and consumers. The SEC's continued attack on crypto, coupled with recent rule proposals like the one related to predictive data analytics, mark yet another improper attempt by the administrative state to stifle innovation.
CoinDesk
Filing: Robinhood's crypto arm got a Wells notice from the US SEC on May 4; on June 27, 2023, Robinhood ended support for tokens named in previous SEC lawsuits
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk :
While we strive to maintain positive and productive relationships with our regulators, if necessary we will use our resources to contest this matter in the courts, with the intent of both defending our crypto business and establishing regulatory clarity in the United States for...
CoinDesk
Filing: Robinhood's crypto arm got a Wells notice from the US SEC on May 4; on June 27, 2023, Robinhood ended support for tokens named in previous SEC lawsuits
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk :
2023-11-30
I couldn't be more excited to begin delivering the best of the US to all UK customers! We've spent time on the ground getting to know UK investors and communities in order to build a tailored and local product that addresses unmet needs. This is only the beginning 🌎 Welcome...
TechCrunch
Robinhood launches commission-free stock trading in the UK, letting select UK investors trade 6,000+ US-listed stocks, with general availability in early 2024
protected up to $2.25M https://robinhood.com/gb/en All investment involves risk, including loss of principal [video]
2021-07-30
Today, as @RobinhoodApp goes public on @Nasdaq, we celebrate a new generation of investors that make Robinhood what it is.
CNBC
Robinhood closes down 8% on its first day of trading, after raising $2.1B in its IPO at a valuation of around $32B
will users ‘age out’ of the app? Finextra : Robinhood prices IPO at $32bn valuation Timothy Craig / Crypto Briefing : Robinhood IPOs Amid Uniswap Partnership Rumors Crunchbase News...
2021-05-21
The wait is over, IPO Access is here! Become one of the first public investors in upcoming IPOs. https://blog.robinhood.com/...
CNBC
Robinhood announces IPO Access, which will let retail investors buy shares of companies at their IPO price before trading begins on public exchanges
Under the Hood ... looks cool https://blog.robinhood.com/... Kate Rooney / @kr00ney : Robinhood is giving clients access to IPO shares, a longstanding Wall Street dominion 🏦 Partne...
2021-02-26
::wow intensifies:: Six million new customers traded through Robinhood Crypto in the first two months of this year. That's more than the number of new crypto traders at Robinhood during the entirety of 2020. https://robinhood.engineering/ ... #crypto #doge #bitcoin https://twitter.com/...
Robinhood
Robinhood says it has added 6M new crypto customers so far in 2021; Robinhood averaged ~200K new crypto customers a month in 2020
Since we launched nearly three years ago, Robinhood Crypto has been central to our efforts to expand access to financial services and democratize finance for all.
2021-01-30
I want to clarify a few things and also explain why Robinhood made the decisions it did to restrict purchasing of certain securities.
CNBC
After dogecoin spiked 800%+, Robinhood halted instant deposits for crypto purchases and restricted trading in cryptocurrencies on Friday
Ryan Browne / CNBC :
I want to clarify a few things and also explain why Robinhood made the decisions it did to restrict purchasing of certain securities.
Wall Street Journal
Profile of the trader known as DeepFuckingValue on r/WallStreetBets, who began investing in GameStop and explaining why in YouTube videos starting in mid-2019
Trader known as DeepF—ingValue on the WallStreetBets forum helped turn the investing world upside down. “I didn't expect this.”
2021-01-29
I want to clarify a few things and also explain why Robinhood made the decisions it did to restrict purchasing of certain securities.
New York Times
Robinhood says it raised emergency funding of $1B+ from its existing investors, as it faces an onslaught of demands on its cash amid a stock market frenzy
The no-fee trading app, which is popular with young investors, has been strained by the high volume of trading this week in stocks such as GameStop.
I want to clarify a few things and also explain why Robinhood made the decisions it did to restrict purchasing of certain securities.
CNBC
Robinhood says due to “recent volatility” it is restricting trading in some stocks, including GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, and Nokia, to “position closing only”
2018-01-26
We display the estimated price so customers will have full transparency into what they will be buying / selling crypto at ... any deviation from the estimated price will be due to market fluctuations and not something that Robinhood profits from
TechCrunch