Peppercoin

Chockstone Acquires Customer Loyalty Marketing Firm Peppercoin

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 17, 2007 - 11:12am.

Portland, Ore. - Chockstone, a provider of customer loyalty marketing programs, announced that it has acquired Peppercoin, the developer of an online micropayments system and provider of card-based merchant loyalty programs.

Career Moves: September 5, 2006

Authored by dmw on September 5, 2006 - 12:40pm.

Obopay, a mobile payments provider based in Redwood City, CA, appoints Christian Delay as Vice President of Business Development. Previously Delay was with Yahoo!, where he led various mobile business development efforts.

Peppercoin Names New VP of Sales and Market Development

Authored by Robert Spears on April 24, 2006 - 5:25am.

Peppercoin, the micropayments technology company, announced today that Charles Caserta has joined the company as VP of Sales and Market Development. Caserta will be responsible for adding and enhancing relationships with finanical services and merchants, and will report directly to Peppercoin's CEO, Mark Friedman.

Micropayments Firm Peppercoin Adds $2 Million to Second Round

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 2, 2005 - 4:03am.

Waltham, Mass. - Peppercoin, a developer of online micropayments technology, has raised an additional $2 million in its second round of venture capital, led by Wall Street Technology Partners, bringing the total raised in the round to $10 million. Other investors in the deal include Total Technology Ventures, Pod Holding and an undisclosed, Boston-based institutional investment adviser. Massachusetts-based Peppercoin supports business models for low-priced digital content and physical goods

tags: Peppercoin | Second Round | Micropayments |

Micropayments Processor Peppercoin Raises $8 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 17, 2005 - 9:07am.

Waltham, Mass. -- Peppercoin, a provider of online micropayment processing services, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $8 million in venture capital financing. Wall Street Technology Partners led the investment round; previous investor Pod Holding, a Boston-based institutional investor, and several private individuals also participated. The company additionally announced that it has named current president Mark Friedman to the additional role of CEO. Massachusetts-based Peppercoin provides online payment processing for small transactions, for companies including digital music services Mashboxx, Peer Impact and myMPO. The company will use the funds to aid in the roll out of "several advanced capabilities in coming months which enable a blend of prepaid, subscription, pay-as-you-go and post-paid merchant offerings," said CEO Mark Friedman.

tags: Deals | VC | Peppercoin | Micropayments |

Micropayments Firm Peppercoin Raises $4.25 Million in First Round

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 29, 2003 - 9:55am.

Waltham, Mass. -- Looking to establish a new, lower cost form of "micropayments" for the purchase of digital content, Massachusetts-based Peppercoin has raised $4.25 million in its first round of venture capital, led by POD Holding. The funding follows a seed investment for Peppercoin of about $1.7 million from a group of individual investors that was announced earlier this year. Peppercoin's technology is based on research conducted at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. The company said it can cut the transaction fee on a $0.99 sale from the typical $0.27 to "well below $0.10." Peppercoin is initially targeting music companies, online game providers, newspaper and magazine publishers, and other digital content providers.

tags: Peppercoin | Raise | Micropayments | Firms |