{"id":48239,"date":"2020-09-22T09:53:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T07:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/?p=48239"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:48:40","slug":"square-adquiere-la-start-up-espanola-de-pagos-moviles-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/square-adquiere-la-start-up-espanola-de-pagos-moviles-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"Verse: Spanish mobile payments start-up acquires Square"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verse, la startup espa\u00f1ola de pagos m\u00f3viles, fue adquirida por Square<\/a>the Fintech of Jack Dorsey, founder of the social network Twitter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The price of the transaction has not been disclosed. Market sources say it could be between 30 and 50 million euros. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verse, the successful startup<\/strong>\u00a0of mobile payments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Verse is a company founded in Barcelona in 2015, which develops the eponymous payment app and is led by the Salamanca entrepreneur Bernardo Hern\u00e1ndez,who was at the time the director of Flickr<\/a>and, before that, product manager at Google.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Verse:<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The app, which currently has 40 employees, one million users and 500 million euros in transactions, has had a European payments licence for the past year, during which time it has managed to hold its own against Bizum<\/a> (Spain's leading platform for immediate mobile payments) and show a good level of growth in neighbouring countries such as Italy, France and Portugal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verse's success since its inception has been, in part, thanks to the large number of investors that have supported it, such as, for example, as Greycroft Partners<\/a>, VAS Venture<\/a> and Spark, as well as business angels such as Nikesh Arora, Alan, David Stern, Jonathan Winer and Charlie Songhurst. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year it announced plans to launch its own digital debit card. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The operation<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

La procurement<\/a>The Cash App, a joint venture of Cash App, theapp<\/em>Square's payment system is the company's first in Europe, and represents, de facto, its entry into the Eurozone, as the company only operates on this side of the Atlantic in the United Kingdom. Thanks to the operation, the US company has increased the list of countries in which it offers its services from 5 to 37.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a statement released by Square, its top priority is to enable Verse to continue its successful growth in Europe.For that reason, the startup will continue to operate as a standalone business, working from its offices with no immediate changes to its existing products, customers or business operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The growth will be possible thanks to the significant injection of resources that Verse will experience by adding the financial and technological capacity of Square, in addition to the services that Cash App already offers in the US.  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verse, la startup espa\u00f1ola de pagos m\u00f3viles, fue adquirida por Square, la Fintech de Jack Dorsey, fundador de la red social Twitter.   El precio de la transacci\u00f3n no ha trascendido. Fuentes del mercado aseguran que podr\u00eda ascender entre los 30 y 50 millones de euros.  Verse, la\u00a0startup exitosa\u00a0de pagos m\u00f3viles Verse es una compa\u00f1\u00eda fundada en Barcelona en […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1751],"tags":[1538,868],"sectores":[],"tipo-contenido":[2260],"class_list":["post-48239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adquisiciones-mas-relevantes","tag-square","tag-verse","tipo-contenido-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48239"},{"taxonomy":"sectores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sectores?post=48239"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-contenido?post=48239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}