Robinhood raises additional US$3.4b
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Online trading platform Robinhood, which has seen demand surge amid a social media campaign targeting GameStop and other companies, said yesterday it had raised US$3.4 billion to finance its needs.
That includes US$1 billion raised last week, then another US$2.4 billion 鈥渢o continue to invest in record customer growth,鈥 it said in a blog.
The funds represent more than the total amount raised by the company since its inception, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The new funding round was led by Ribbit Capital and existing investors like ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Index Ventures, and NEA participated, Robinhood revealed.
鈥淭his funding is a strong sign of confidence from investors and will help us build for the future and continue to serve people through the exponential growth we鈥檝e seen this year,鈥 it said.
Traders who banded together over Reddit and other social media platforms have used Robinhood to make massive share purchases of GameStop, AMC Entertainment and other struggling firms that wealthy investors had bet against.
The campaign, intended to make hedge funds and other large investors suffer, has caused the share prices of these companies to soar, and American and British securities regulators have said they were watching the volatile markets.
It鈥檚 also upped the strain on Robinhood, which needs to maintain a certain amount of funds in the financial institutions that facilitate orders made on its platform. When it sees increased demand, that liquidity needs to increase as well.
An app popular among retail investors whose stated goal is to 鈥渄emocratize finance for all,鈥 Robinhood last Thursday decided to limit trades on the most volatile stocks, before reversing course the next day.
In a Sunday interview with Tesla boss Elon Musk, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said his company had to put down a US$3-billion security deposit with its clearing houses amid the trading frenzy.
However, GameStop appeared to have lost some of its momentum, with the stock dropping 27.6 percent around 1830 on Monday. AMC was up by 5.7 percent.
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