Building the Global Internet Money System

Frictionless digital dollar and a monetary infrastructure for the AI economy.

Spencer Trask & Co. negotiated the license with and funded SeedInvest at inception. By connecting 850,000 investors with over 500 startups, this equity crowdfunding platform grew into the largest in the U.S.

Seedinvest then exchanged its shares for equity in Circle Internet the week before the launch of the USDC, making it and Spencer Trask the first investors in what became the world’s most trusted stablecoin.

USDC is programmable money that enables instant, low-cost Internet of Money transactions. As a transparent, regulated infrastructure, it provides unique services such as reducing remittance fees from 7% to below 2%.

The traction following Spencer Trask’s investment has been remarkable:

• Circle attracted $400 million in private capital from BlackRock and Fidelity after the USDC launch
• USDC has powered $25 trillion in on-chain transactions — $5.9 trillion in Q1 2025 alone
• Circle conducted the second best performing IPO since 1981 of a firm valued at over $500 million.