Papaya
Payments fulfilment platform
- 21-100 employees
- Fintech
- B2C
- Payments
- SaaS
- Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, CA
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Company mission
To alleviate the stress and anxiety Americans face in paying bills.
20% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
The growth in cashless transactions has been huge, and a variety of fintech startups have launched to capture this demand. Papaya offers an instant payment service for physical bills. Users take a photo of a bill using their mobile phone, and are able to instantly pay using a designated card or bank account.
As consumers become more and more reliant on their mobile devices to manage their lives, Papaya has taken the complexity out of online banking and created a service that can be used on the go. There are other players in the bill payments market, but Papaya has gained traction through its simplicity and ease of use.
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Leadership
Patrick Kann
(CEO & Co-founder)Having worked as a Corporate Account Officer for 2 years and a World Bank Associate, they took an MBA and worked at eSolar, Macquarie Bank, and Idealab. They left their GameMix Board Member role in September 2015 having co-founded Papaya that June.
Jason Meltzer
(CTO & Co-founder)Having studied at Caltech, they took a Ph.D. at UCLA before working as a Robotics Scientist for 6 years. They founded SightCine in 2009 before co-founding Papaya in June 2015.