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Type
  
Private

Fate
  
Acquired by Visa Inc.

Products
  
UltimatePay

Acquisition date
  
March 2011

Parent organizations
  
Visa, CyberSource

Industry
  
Payments

Area served
  
Worldwide

Website
  
www.playspan.com

Founders
  
Karl Mehta, Arjun Mehta

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Founded
  
2006, Silicon Valley, California, United States

Headquarters
  
San Francisco, California, United States

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PlaySpan is a payments company whose payments platform handles transactions for digital goods in online games, digital media, and social networks around the world. The company allows merchants to monetize their content using a broad suite of payment and commerce-related solutions in fraud, risk management, analytics, merchandizing and global payment connectivity.

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Company History

PlaySpan was founded in 2006 by Karl Mehta. In July 2008, PlaySpan acquired Internet Payment Solutions, an alternative payments company, and in April 2009, PlaySpan acquired Spare Change Payments, a social media payments company.

The company received a total of $46 million in funding from investors Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, Novel TMT Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank Capital, STIC Investments, Softbank, Vodafone, and GE Asset Management.

In March 2011, Visa Inc. acquired PlaySpan for $190 million in cash + earn-outs over 2 years, amounting to approximately $240 million in total purchase consideration.

References

PlaySpan Wikipedia