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Last activity: 29.12.2015
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Overview

Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Employees
51-200
Total raised
$25M
Founded date
2011

Funding Rounds 1

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May 23, 2015FinTech Digest: Clinkle Implodes, Stripe Valued At $5B, Square Opens in Australia
Jan 13, 2015Clinkle Pivots From Its Soured Brand To “Treats” For Sharing DiscountsNot since Color has a startup been as widely laughed at as the troubled Stanford payments startup Clinkle. So it’s little surprise that the company has changed the name of its app to “Treats”, as well as its direction. After seeing the comp...
Sep 23, 2014Mobile Wallet Laughingstock Clinkle Finally Launches To Let You Pay Friends And Earn “Treats”After 17 months of jokes about vaporware college payments startup Clinkle, its iOS and Android apps finally launched today at a few colleges. Clinkle lets you pay friends, get a pre-paid Visa, and earn gifts like Baskin-Robbins ice cream fo...
Sep 23, 2014Clinkle Confirms Its Massive Failure To Reinvent PaymentsClinkle homepage After more than a year of buzz, Clinkle finally unveiled its first product Tuesday with a quiet launch on its website. It’s a prepaid Visa card. And an app. You read that right. What happened to Clinkle’s rumored (but plaus...
Apr 22, 2014Tough Realities Persist In Mobile PaymentsThe Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything. Welcome to The Platform, a new column by ReadWrite mobil...
Mar 31, 2014Two more Clinkle execs depart. The 15-minutes-of-fame timer is … clinkingUh-oh, more trouble in Clinkleland (the magical kingdom of the yet-to-be-unveiled mobile payments startup). It appears that chief service and operational officer Andy Rendich has left the building, according to a company rep. Rendich joined...
Mar 13, 2014After Raising More Money And Launching Its Product In Beta, Clinkle COO McCarthy Steps DownIt’s never a dull moment when it comes to Clinkle, the mobile payments startup which hopes to one day replace your wallet. The young company’s roller coaster ride continues with the news today that former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy has step...
Mar 13, 2014Overfunded stealth payments startup Clinkle loses COOWe still don’t know what exactly the stealth payments company Clinkle is working on (something something revamping the way we pay for things forever), but its drama never seems to end. Best known for raising the biggest seed funding round e...
Jan 30, 2014Clinkle Gets Hacked Before It Even LaunchesClinkle is the hottest app around to have done mostly nothing. The stealth payments service, which has raised $30 million from big-name investors, has yet to publicly launch. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be hacked. Today, a guest user pos...
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