# Circling

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/circling

- Industry: Internet
- Headquarters: Hangzhou, China
- Latest round: Seed (Jul 5, 2017)
- Investors on record: 1

## About

Established in 2017 and based in Hangzhou, China, Circling operates a cultural community platform that focuses on the communication of ancient and secondary culture. The founder, Xia Si, graduated from Fudan University and founded the ancient style club Shi Yin Society. It has partnerships with ReadWrite Group, Lychee FM, Wakam Digital. In July 2017, the company closed a seed funding from Shanghai Taoli Capital.

The company has developed the Spinning Circle app, a pan-ancient cultural content originality and aggregation community platform that provides original PGC and UGC content reading, as well as content incubation and promotion services. In addition, Circling also provides content outsourcing business, music, video and other works production services.

The company generates revenue by monetization of traffic and content, as well as selling peripherals and music albums.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Jul 5, 2017 — Taoli Capital

## Investors

- Taoli Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/taoli-capital) — Seed