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Clinkle
Clinkle is a mobile payments startup company. Founded by Lucas Duplan in 2011, the company began as a small group of students. In 2013 it raised $25 million in what became Silicon Valley's largest seed round. The product launched to college students on September 24th, 2014.〔http://www.businessinsider.com/clinkle-payments-app-is-live-2014-9〕
== History ==
Clinkle was founded in 2012 by Lucas Duplan, then a computer science student at Stanford University. Duplan had decided to work on mobile payments during a study abroad program in London after his freshman year.〔 Upon returning to Stanford, Duplan received guidance from Mehran Sahami, a professor who taught the university's introductory programming methodology class. Clinkle rented a house in Palo Alto, California using money from Duplan's parents and a summer program through Highland Capital Partners. With approximately a dozen students building the app, it ran a beta test at Stanford in which testers could send payments to each other.〔
Through VMware co-founder Diane Greene, Duplan met Accel partner Jim Breyer, who became interested in the company after discussing it with Stanford professors and graduate students.〔 Breyer became an investor following his first meeting and product demonstration with Duplan and participated in a round of funding for the company. By June 2013, Clinkle had raised $25 million from a broad range of investors, including Greene, Andreessen Horowitz, Intel Capital, Intuit, Peter Thiel, and Owen Van Natta. The funding amounted to largest seed round in Silicon Valley. Shortly after, Duplan moved the 50-person company from Mountain View to San Francisco.
In October 2013 former Netflix chief financial officer Barry McCarthy became Clinkle's chief operating officer, and two more former Netflix executives later joined as vice presidents. McCarthy left Clinkle after less than 5 months at the company. Near the end of the year, the company laid off a quarter of its employees.
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