QuadrigaCX
CryptoCanadaClosed 2019
Total Raised
Undisclosed
Peak Valuation
Undisclosed
Employees
—
Year Collapsed
2019
Business model
Cryptocurrency exchange charging trading fees.
In brief
Once Canada's largest crypto exchange, it collapsed after its 30-year-old founder Gerald Cotten reportedly died suddenly in India in December 2018, allegedly taking the only passwords to roughly $190M in customer crypto to his grave. A subsequent regulatory investigation conclude…
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Key facts
- Founded
- 2013
- Closed
- 2019
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, Canada
- Industry
- Crypto
- Employees
- —
- Revenue
- Undisclosed
- Founders
- Gerald Cotten, Michael Patryn
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