San Francisco CA. Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) fintech. Founded by Max Levchin (PayPal CTO) + others. NASDAQ: AFRM. $2.6B+ revenue FY2025. One of largest BNPL platforms globally.

Spend management and corporate cards for startups. San Francisco CA. Y Combinator + Ribbit + DST. Raised $200M 2024. Shifted focus from SMB to enterprise.

Equity management platform for startups and investors. San Francisco CA. a16z + Spark Capital. $7.4B valuation. Used by 40,000+ companies to manage cap tables.

Palo Alto CA. Founded 1998 by Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan. Original money-transfer/Palm Pilot payment service. Merged with X.com (Elon Musk) 1999 → became PayPal.

Farther is a New York-based intelligent wealth management firm that combines proprietary technology with expert financial advisor guidance. It operates a wealth platform natively built to empower both advisors and clients with cutting-edge tools, and has been named the #1 fastest growing firm in the industry.

San Francisco CA. Nonprofit micro-lending platform. Premal Shah (PayPal PM) was founding president. Enables individuals to lend to entrepreneurs globally. $1.9B+ in loans facilitated.

San Jose CA. Originally Confinity (Peter Thiel + Max Levchin, 1998) merged with X.com (Elon Musk, 1999). Renamed PayPal. Acquired by eBay $1.5B 2002. IPO 2015 (spun off from eBay). Flagship product: online payments. Origin company of the PayPal Mafia — 20+ subsequent billion-dollar companies founded by alumni. Stanford and UIUC heavily represented in founding team.

Financial data network connecting apps to bank accounts. San Francisco CA. NEA + Andreessen Horowitz. Visa attempted acquisition ($5.3B) blocked 2021. Raised $575M Apr 2024 at $6.1B.

ProducePay is a Los Angeles-based fintech platform transforming the fresh produce industry by providing capital, a trading network, and data-driven insights to farmers and distributors. The company has distributed more than $2 billion in financing to over 250 produce farmers and distributors.

San Francisco CA (now Block Inc). Mobile payments and point-of-sale hardware. Founded 2009 by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey. Keith Rabois (PayPal) was COO 2010-2013. NYSE: SQ (rebranded Block Inc 2021). $22B+ revenue.

Global payments infrastructure platform. Robinhood RVI portfolio holding.

Palo Alto CA. Founded by Elon Musk 1999 as online bank. Merged with Confinity 1999. Renamed PayPal. Domain name later reclaimed by Musk for Twitter rebranding (2023). Predecessor entity in PayPal Mafia origin story.