- Privacy.com — a virtual card platform that provides secure payments for businesses and consumers — announced that it raised $10.2 million in Series A funding
Privacy.com — a virtual card platform that provides secure payments for businesses and consumers — announced that it raised $10.2 million in Series A funding. This round of funding was led by Teamworthy Ventures with participation from Tusk Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Quiet Capital, Exor Seeds, and Rainfall Ventures.
The funding round will fuel the expansion of the Privacy’s Card Issuing API, which is known for being the easiest and most developer-friendly service for businesses of all sizes to issue and manage virtual and physical cards for all their payment needs, including procurement, expense reimbursement, disbursement automation, on-demand services, digital banking, agency services, etc.
Usually, issuing debit cards requires months of work and tens of thousands of dollars in investment for marketplace companies, startup banks, insurers, and several others. With just a few lines of code and Privacy’s Card Issuing API, businesses can cut costs and time by programmatically setting limits, locking cards, and setting spending and card-specific controls.
By reducing the hurdles to issuing cards, Privacy’s Card Issuing API has enabled businesses to create new payments-enabled business models in a diverse set of industries ranging from digital advertising to insurance. Privacy’s Card Issuing API has been in beta testing for over a year and over a hundred developers have already adopted the program and transaction volumes have grown ten-fold. And in launching its API, Privacy aims to make card issuing convenient for businesses. In the past 3 years, Privacy.com has issued over 5 million cards.
Key Quotes:
“Many existing payment processors espouse being developer-first, but their solutions still take months to build, cost thousands of dollars, and require customers to sign an NDA before sharing pricing. We decided to build the most efficient, transparent, and easiest way to issue virtual cards. Privacy.com makes it possible to issue a virtual card in hours and provides all the pricing upfront, making it friendlier for developers everywhere.”
— Boling Jiang, CEO of Privacy.com. Privacy.com was founded by Jiang, Jason Kruse, and David Nichols in 2014.
“Privacy has been a game-changer for our business. We’re able to securely send payments nationwide and scale our team with each coordinator, processing 50 percent more requests than before Privacy.”
— Dana Dunford, CEO of Hemlane
“The Privacy.com team is powering the next generation of companies with innovative payments-enabled business models. Through our investments in vertical SaaS, SME SaaS, marketplaces, and platforms, we know there is an enduring need for the Privacy Card Issuing API among product and engineering teams seeking a fast-to-market and flexible payments partner.”
— Thomas D. Lehrman, Managing Partner of Teamworthy Ventures
