The real opportunity for payment startups: simplicity

Every entrepreneur who has had to go through the process of setting up their payment gateway and/or merchant account knows that it isn’t always simple. When I set mine up, BrainTree, Stripe, and Paymill weren't around. I was given a chisel and stone tablet and asked to deliver all my information in triplicate.

Braintree launches Venmo Touch to ‘be as important for next decade of commerce as PayPal was for last’

Payments company Braintree has publicly released Venmo Touch and made updates to its iOS software developer kit (SDK) to make mobile purchases as easy as Facebook Connect.

Balanced adds $2M from Andreessen Horowitz, Collaborative Fund into its checkbook

Balanced, which provides backend payments solutions for online marketplaces, adds $2 million into its seed round after six months of strong momentum.

It’s the ‘second inning’ of mobile monetization & these startups are making bank

To inspire your business strategy, we spoke to a group of entrepreneurs from startups like Lyft, Poshmark, Postmates, and Stripe. After some trial and error, they've figured out how to make money hand over fist.

Stripe and Parse partner up to expand realm of mobile payments

Y Combinator startups Stripe and Parse form a partnership to make it easy for developers to integrate payments into their mobile apps.

Stripe acquires Kickoff (& a top-shelf, three-dude software design team)

Kickoff is a desktop Mac app for group chat and task management for teams. The Apple-flavored product looks and feels at home on Mac devices, but its features are pretty duplicative.

Codecademy adds API training with YouTube, NPR, Bit.ly, and 6 other services to help new devs build actual products

Today Codecademy is launching a new partnership with nine companies to help budding developers learn APIs and create actual functioning sites, projects, and even products.

With $20M more in investment, Stripe is poised for greatness

Online payment platform Stripe made major waves on the tech scene today by announcing $20 million in a second round of funding that includes a veritable celebrity roster of Silicon Valley investors.

Stripe makes it remarkably easy to accept credit …

Stripe attracts $18M in funding at $100M valuation

Stripe, an online-payment system company going after PayPal, is said to have raised $18 million at a $100 million valuation from Sequoia Capital and other investors, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

The deal has not been finalized but a few unnamed sources …