Mobile payment trader Boku 13 million dollar venture capital

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June 17 News According to foreign media reports, mobile phone payer Boku recently announced a 13 million dollar venture capital, and debut the new team. Benchmark Capital dominated the investment, with other investors including the Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures.boku, which also announced the successful acquisition of mobile phone payment industry leader Paymo and Mobillcash two companies.

Boku provides a new payment service for global consumers-buying digital and virtual products online via mobile phones. Boku is creating a bank-level online mobile payment service market.

Mark Britto officially joined Boku as Ceo.mark with 20 years of experience in management, sales and finance at Amazon, Ingenio and Firstusa. Boku team members from At&t Interactive, PayPal, Apple, FICO, Google, O2, Bank of America and ebay and other companies, both technical and financial experience.

Kevin Harvey, Benchmark Capital's investment partner, says Mark and Boku's team have a good background in payments, mobile phones and the Internet, and are capable of doing well in this fast-growing market.

Mark Britto added, "We are excited to work with Benchmark Capital's Kevin Harvey, Index Venture's Danny Rimer and Khosla Ventures's David Weiden. They are the most visionary and successful venture capitalists in the world. They and their companies have decades of experience in the technological revolution and have invested in companies such as ebay, Second Life, Skype, Tellme and Twitter.

Boku's mobile payment service will allow 1.6 billion potential users in more than 50 countries to pay by clicking on their mobile button when shopping online. Based on a wealth of experience and technical teams, this company will provide a mobile payment platform that no other company in today's mobile payment market can offer.

The mobile payment market is growing fast and the market is huge. The net learned that there are about 4 billion mobile phones worldwide, but bank accounts are only 2 billion. A large number of users without a credit card or bank account will be one of the main target audiences.

Headquartered in San, Boku has offices in Europe, Asia and Latin America.