Funding Circle has thus far reacted with graceful discretion to numerous reports, all un-substantiated, that the company has achieved the coveted ‘Unicorn’ status – Silicon Valley speak for a private tech company valued at more than $1 billion. Ever since the company completed a $150m funding round in April of this year speculation has pointed to a total value of upwards of $1 billion. At the time the number was impossible to prove and the company neither confirmed nor denied.

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