Type of site | Private |
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Available in | Multilingual |
Founded | April 2010 |
Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Founder(s) | Honor Gunday, Vladimir Kovalyov |
Industry | IT, Financial services |
Employees | 150+ (July, 2015) [1] |
URL | paymentwall.com |
Users | 200 thousand (2015) |
Current status | Active |
Paymentwall Inc. is a payment service provider which services businesses in the SaaS, travel, and e-commerce industries.
Honor Gunday and Vladimir Kovalyov started Paymentwall in April 2010 to help game companies on Facebook monetize their global traffic. [2]
On July 1, 2011, Facebook announced that they would no longer allow any outside monetization providers, at which point the company pivoted to providing services to non-Facebook games and online dating websites. [3] [4]
In 2011, the company entered into partnership with Alipay, a third-party mobile and online payment platform, established in Hangzhou, China in February 2004 by the Alibaba Group. [5]
Paymentwall launched a payment system for Smart TVs in November 2014. [6]
In 2018, Paymentwall spun out Terminal3 as a global payment platform for gaming companies. [7]
Paymentwall is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Berlin, [8] [9] Bangalore, Beijing, Gurgaon, Hanoi, Kyiv, Lisbon, London, Moscow, Manila, Seoul, Shenzhen, Cairo and Sofia.
In November 2015, the company unveiled its intergalactic-themed development lab in Kyiv. [10]
In July 2019, the company officially announced its two new office locations in Bangalore and Gurgaon. [11]