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WePay, the payments company behind platform businesses including crowdfunding, has closed $15 million in Series C financing.
支付公司WEPAY,业务包括众融，刚从Ｃ轮融资获得1500万美元。
WePay will use the funds to boost growth through further investments in its payments API product and international expansion. Revenue from WePay’s payments API has grown over 600% in the past year, and the company boasts over 300 platform partners and over 250,000 customers. In a recent article WePay stated they were processing $1.5 million per day in crowdfunding transactions.
WEPAY将使用此资金加速成长，包括API产品和国际化拓展。WEPAY公司去年从API上面的收和超过600％的增长。公司还夸耀说，已经拥有了3百多家平台合作者，和超过25万名客户。近期的一篇文章中，WEPAY声明，公司每天处理超过150万美元的众融交易。
The company also announced its plans to discontinue its direct-to-consumer offering in order to focus exclusively on its payments API built specifically for platform businesses such as online marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software. Many crowdfunding platforms leverage the service such as Fundly, Launcht, Mimoona and more.
公司还宣布，将中止直接客户的服务，以便专注于支付API（应用程序介面）服务于平台型业务公司，例如，在线市场，众融网站，和小型商业软件公司。许多众融平台正在使用他们的服务，如Fundly, Launcht, Mimoona等等。
The financing round was led by financial services and payments pioneer Phil Purcell of Continental Investors, co-founder of the Discover Card and former CEO of Morgan Stanley.
融资团队包括支付先锋Phil Purcell、DISCOVER信用卡联合创始人、及摩根斯坦利前CEO。
Continental Investors has investments in several notable financial services companies, including the leading mobile payment and loyalty company, LevelUp. Paul Purcell will represent Continental on the WePay board.
Addition investors included:
其它投资人还包括——
- Max Levchin, founder & former CTO of PayPal
- Maynard Webb (Chairman of Yahoo!, board member of Salesforce, former COO of eBay, and former CEO of LiveOps), through the Webb Investment Network (WIN), his early-stage venture capital firm
- Angel investor Raymond Tonsing
Existing investors from previous rounds, including Highland Capital Partners, August Capital and Ignition Partners, all participated in this new funding round. WePay’s total financing now stands at $35 million.
“Platform businesses like online marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software are the most exciting segment of ecommerce today,” said Paul Purcell of Continental.
平台型业务喜欢在线交易，这是今天令人兴奋的电商领域。
“WePay’s focus here, coupled with their ability to give these platforms a payment solution that offers both flexibility and protection from fraud and compliance risk, is a recipe for success.”
“We are thrilled to welcome Continental to the WePay family. The team’s depth of operating and investment experience with later stage companies, payments, financial services and the public markets will be invaluable to WePay as we grow,” said Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay.
Unlike general-purpose payment APIs and processors, WePay is uniquely focused on serving platform businesses such as online marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software.
与其它通用目的的支付API或处理程序不同，WEPAY独特地专注于服务平台业务，比如在线市场、众融网站、和小型商业软件公司。
WePay gives these platforms the flexibility they need to design new commerce experiences while still protecting them from the burdens of fraud and compliance. WePay’s proprietary VedaTM social risk engine underpins its API and is honed to understand the platform’s users.
WEPAY给予这些平台很大的灵活性，以适合这些平台设计新的交易体验的需要，同时保护它们免受欺诈、及合规性的负担。
