BillMonk is now an Obopay company! Settle up online.
We are delighted to announce that BillMonk has been acquired by Obopay, Inc.
Obopay built the first comprehensive mobile person-to-person payments service in the US that lets you instantly send money to anyone using your mobile phone (SMS, WAP, or a downloadable app), or a web browser.
When we first talked to the Obopay team it was clear to us that they care deeply about making it easier to deal with money. Given that BillMonk’s goal is to make money painless between friends, the match couldn’t have been better.
As a first step of integration, BillMonk now lets you settle up your debts online via Obopay! Simply login and click on the new ‘Settle up with Obopay‘ action. Today’s beta release makes it easy to send money to a phone number; we will soon follow up with the ability to send money to an email address.
What’s most exciting about BillMonk joining forces with Obopay is that we can now deliver on a huge number of exciting features, sooner. (And we now have a Seattle office that isn’t our apartments, with a team that isn’t just the two of us!) BillMonk’s growth will be faster than ever, we can work harder than ever, and you benefit more than ever.
A big thanks to all of you for believing in the service and for helping us make it better. It has been a wild and wonderful first year; this next year is going to be through the roof!
January 30, 2007 at 7:42 am
Congrats, monks!
January 30, 2007 at 8:29 am
Congrats! I’ll buy you guys a beer (or several) next time I see you at you know where…
January 30, 2007 at 9:17 am
Congratulations guys! It looks like a great match.
January 30, 2007 at 12:16 pm
i went to the obopay.com website and there was not comment box or email addy, but i would just like to know if i can join even if i’m not an american citizen or even if i don’t live in the states?
i already emailed my friends and relatives in the states about it, but gosh darn it, i wish i could get some of that referral bonus money! = )
please link up with bank of philippine islands (www.bpi.com.ph) here in the philippines. bpi is my bank so it’d be great if you can link up.
and if you do, hope you tell them i suggested it, maybe they’ll give me a prize or something, hehehehe.
thanks.
January 30, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Dude This Rocks ! It’s just been a year. Don’t you just
love this country ???!!!
January 30, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Hey guys,
Kudos on taking a step further in helping me keep tab of my expenses, i have had a whole lot of my friends hooked on to this ……
With the online pay thing it ameliorates the distance factor …..
cheers on a job well done.
thanks
January 30, 2007 at 3:52 pm
The team at Obopay is very excited about BillMonk and Obopay coming together. In a world that values convenience so much, it’s ironic how inconvenient money itself has become.
We are committed to making money painless among friends!
Carol Realini
January 30, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Congrats guys! You’ve inspired half of Seattle’s tech crowd with your hard work and attention to customers. Well, at least you’ve inspired me.
January 30, 2007 at 8:04 pm
[...] platform and eventually by email. You can see Obopay’s release here and Billmonk’s here. Founders Gaurav Oberoi and Chuck Groom will be moving to Obopay’s new Seattle office to [...]
January 30, 2007 at 8:38 pm
[...] platform and eventually by email. You can see Obopay’s release here and Billmonk’s here. Founders Gaurav Oberoi and Chuck Groom will be moving to Obopay’s new Seattle office to [...]
January 30, 2007 at 9:03 pm
The secret is out of the bag! Congratulations! I expect more big things!
January 30, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Congrats!!!
January 30, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Awesome news! Keep up the good work.
January 30, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Congrats Gaurav and Chuck! Looking forward to the cool things you’ll inevitably come up with next.
January 30, 2007 at 10:52 pm
[...] January 30th, 2007 at 2:52 pm (Economick) You may have heard about the fabu-fabu Seattle startup Billmonk that makes mooching from your friends and embezzling from your housemates so easy and enjoyable. You may have wondered how they expect to make money. Well, consider your curiosity satisfied. [...]
January 30, 2007 at 11:39 pm
[...] 2サービスが統合することで、Billmonkで負債を追跡してきたユーザーはObopayのモバイル決済プラットフォームにすかさず移転となる。いずれ最終的にはメール決済も利用可能になる見通しだ。Obopayの発表はこちら、Billmonkはこちら。ファウンダーのGaurav Oberoi とChuck Groomは今後、Obopayのシアトルの新オフィスに異動し、「ソーシャル会計問題」の解決に専念する。 [...]
January 31, 2007 at 12:25 am
[...] platform and eventually by email. You can see Obopay’s release here and Billmonk’s here. Founders Gaurav Oberoi and Chuck Groom will be moving to Obopay’s new Seattle office to [...]
January 31, 2007 at 12:34 am
[...] has acquired Billmonk, a web-based tool for settling shared bills. It’s a small deal, but one that I take [...]
January 31, 2007 at 1:00 am
Congrats! It was a vigorous and inspiring campaign. May you continue to inspire communities in your new intra-preneurship roles.
January 31, 2007 at 1:27 am
Congratulations Guys….You chaps rock! Now lets have that payment service up and running in India, neh?
January 31, 2007 at 2:19 am
Firstly, I would like to congratulate you on this major milestone in your lifes.. It really is great and gives us confidence to build our own ventures..
I saw ur service sometime back and was amazed on the simple problem u guys were trying to solve… Simple does not mean small.. Congrats again…
January 31, 2007 at 4:09 am
Wooohoooo!
January 31, 2007 at 4:19 am
It’s always good to recognize that a cool idea with perhaps a light business model may be worth more inside another organization than on its own. Good luck in making that all work for you.
January 31, 2007 at 4:32 am
[...] night, we announced that Billmonk was acquired by Obopay, Inc.! We are delighted to announce that BillMonk has been acquired by Obopay, [...]
January 31, 2007 at 5:13 am
Congrats! Wow! I remember you guys presenting at Rainmakers Live last year! Its been less than a year now… Keep it up guys! Awesome…
January 31, 2007 at 8:11 am
congrats yall… here’s to continued success!
January 31, 2007 at 9:14 am
nice job fellas!
January 31, 2007 at 10:03 am
Sweet, congrats. My friend h1kari turned me on you guys and its been great. Good to hear it will be even better. Good luck!
January 31, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Congrats!
January 31, 2007 at 11:57 pm
awesome. good luck for continued success!
February 1, 2007 at 10:41 pm
[...] platform and eventually by email. You can see Obopay’s release here and Billmonk’s here. Founders Gaurav Oberoi and Chuck Groom will be moving to Obopay’s new Seattle office to [...]
February 2, 2007 at 3:20 am
Congratulations! Is there any word of possible changes to the privacy policy as a result of this?
February 2, 2007 at 7:55 am
Congratulations guys. Its amazing seeing the amount of value you can add, just by tackling a problem in the simplest way possible.
Is billmonk now going to be interfaced with the mobile interface to remind friends of pending money? Or is it that obopay will be a widget in billmonk where friends can pay money through billmonk?
February 2, 2007 at 7:57 am
All aside, really excited to see how this is go from here. Just hoping something like this can work itself out in india.
February 2, 2007 at 7:59 am
mea culpa. missed that image & it is just as i expected the interface to be!
cheers!
February 2, 2007 at 1:02 pm
[...] platform and eventually by email. You can see Obopay’s release here and Billmonk’s here. Founders Gaurav Oberoi and Chuck Groom will be moving to Obopay’s new Seattle office to [...]
February 4, 2007 at 6:47 pm
India! we want this to be extended to India as well!
February 7, 2007 at 6:30 am
congrats!
February 7, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Memberships with Amp’d and Helio? Expanding into India? Way to go fellas…sounds like this is definitely heading somewhere…
February 8, 2007 at 9:38 am
Congrats Monks! This is very exciting!!
I still recall the time we had dinner after the Rainmakers Event and you were sharing with us about how there wasn’t a definite revenue model back then.. and things have turned out so well!
February 22, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Congratulations BillMonkers… I’ve always loved this product and I’ve been using it almost the whole time. Congratulations on seeing your passion turn into a viable product. And I bet its nice to see some cash money too! All the best!
February 28, 2007 at 5:41 am
Sweeet! Congrads on that. Hope obopay goes global soon then!
February 28, 2007 at 10:02 am
Well played boys
-Paz
February 28, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Woohoo!!
February 28, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Congrats everyone!
March 22, 2007 at 5:32 am
How much is the whole deal? congrats
August 30, 2007 at 4:53 am
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December 7, 2007 at 8:52 am
great ways to be implemented
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