Home › DMW Daily › June 16, 2009

Mobile Payments Firm Boku Raises $13 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 16, 2009 - 8:12am.
San Francisco - Boku, a provider of mobile micropayment services, announced on Tuesday that it has closed a $13 million round of venture capital funding, led by Benchmark Capital.

Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures also participated.

San Francisco-based Boku also announced its acquisitions of global mobile payment firms Paymo and Mobillcash, and the appointment of Mark Britto as its chief executive.

Boku aims to bring "bank-grade" mobile payments to consumers making purchases of digital and virtual goods with their phones.

 

Related Links:
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Boku-1004439.html

http://www.boku.com

Published in DMW Daily, June 16, 2009
tags: Deals | Mobile | VC | Benchmark Capital | Khosla Ventures | Index Ventures | Boku |



Comments

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.