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obopay

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Obopay lets consumers and businesses purchase, pay, and transfer money through any mobile phone using Obopay’s mobile application, text message, mobile Web, or Obopay.com. Obopay works on any mobile phone and any carrier in the U.S. Obopay’s prepaid MasterCard works with any merchant that accepts MasterCard debit cards. Obopay has partnerships with Citi, Fidelity Information Services, MasterCard MoneySend, Bancorp, Verizon Wireless, AT&T and RIM.

Obopay has a wholly owned subsidiary in India whose service launched in March, 2008. Obopay India has announced partnerships with YES Bank, Aircel, BPL and Tata Indicom.

Milestones

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• Received $70M in Series E funding. (3/25/09)
  Posted 3/25/09 at 10:42am
• Received $20M in Series D funding. (4/21/08)
  Posted 4/17/08 at 6:25pm
• Received $29M in Series C funding. (7/1/07)
  Posted 7/31/07 at 4:51am
• Acquired BillMonk. (1/30/07)
  Posted 1/23/09 at 12:10pm
• Received $7M in Series B funding. (9/1/06)
  Posted 7/31/07 at 4:48am
• John Tumminaro, Co-founder/CTO added.
  Posted 7/31/07 at 4:21am
• Ramy Mora, VP Marketing added.
  Posted 7/31/07 at 4:21am
• Judith M. O'Brien, EVP, General Counsel and Secretary added.
  Posted 7/31/07 at 4:19am
• Carol L. Realini, Co-founder/CEO added.
  Posted 7/31/07 at 4:18am
• Chris Martin, SVP Operations, Services and Compliance Officer added.
  Posted 7/31/07 at 4:23am
• Michael Diamond, Senior VP Business Development added.
  Posted 10/1/08 at 12:24pm
• Deepak Chandnani, President, Asia and Africa added.
  Posted 3/27/09 at 9:50am
• Tyler Sloat, CFO added.
  Posted 3/27/09 at 9:50am
• Phong Q. Rock, Vice President, Global Markets added.
  Posted 3/27/09 at 9:50am

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Obopay

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Website	obopay.com
Stage	Live
Launch Date	March 30, 2006
Tags	money-management

Above: Obopay Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

Above: Home Page
Uploaded: 3/28/09

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Sources

1. BillMonk is now an Obopay company! Settle up online. (billmonk.wordpress.com) [edit]
2. venturebeat.com [edit]
3. venturebeat.com [edit]
4. Obopay takes $20M for mobile payment software (venturebeat.com) [edit]
5. Financial Times (blogs.ft.com) [edit]