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