CashStar is a leading provider of end-to-end first party solutions and services for gift card commerce, supporting multiple touchpoints across the customer lifecycle. Its award-winning platform, CashStar Commerce, is a flexible and market-proven solution that enables merchants to directly market, sell and distribute digital and plastic gift cards across channels and devices. With security, scalability and reliability integral to its foundation, CashStar clients can focus more on creating great customer experiences, growing gift card revenue and driving omni-channel engagement. CashStar Velocity Services allow merchants to grow their gift card programs with minimal resource investment. CashStar clients include top brands like SEPHORA, Starbucks, The Home Depot, Uber and Walmart. CashStar is a Blackhawk Network Business.
Based in Portland, Maine, CashStar's team brings deep technology, retail and payments experience from market leading companies such as American Express, Blackhawk Network, Cartera Commerce, Chase, First Data Corp, GM, IDEXX, Intuit, Maritz, PayPal, and WEX.
To learn more about how CashStar is constantly innovating the way businesses leverage gift card ecommerce solutions, please visit cashstar.com, follow us @CashStar or email info@cashstar.com.
Based in Portland, Maine, CashStar's team brings deep technology, retail and payments experience from market leading companies such as American Express, Blackhawk Network, Cartera Commerce, Chase, First Data Corp, GM, IDEXX, Intuit, Maritz, PayPal, and WEX.
To learn more about how CashStar is constantly innovating the way businesses leverage gift card ecommerce solutions, please visit cashstar.com, follow us @CashStar or email info@cashstar.com.
Location: United States, Maine, Portland
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $41M
Founded date: 2008
Founders name: Glenn Snyder
Founders Related Locations: United States, Maine, Portland; United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Hercules C... | htgc.com |
| - | FTV Capita... | ftvcapital... |
Funding Rounds 4
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 05.08.2015 | Series D | $15M | - |
| 24.07.2012 | - | $5M | - |
| 26.10.2011 | - | $12M | - |
| 15.02.2011 | - | $5M | - |
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| 30.08.2017 | Blackhawk Pays $175M for Maine-based E-Commerce Business CashStar | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints CashStar, a company that makes digital gift cards and commerce software, has sold to financial tech business Blackhawk Network for $175 million in cash. Venture capital-backed... |
| 07.08.2015 | Boston Tech Tidbits: CashStar, Ditto Labs, EMC, Jibo | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Geez, go away for a few days and a bunch of news blows up in Boston. Here are a few of the local technology deals we’re catching up on this week. (I’m not even touching the re... |
| 05.08.2015 | CashStar Closes $15M in Series D Funding | CashStar, a Portland, Maine-based provider of prepaid commerce solutions, closed $15m in Series D funding. The round was led by FTV Capital with participation from new investor Mosaik Partners and existing investors Passport Capital, Intel ... |
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| 05.08.2015 | Prepaid provider CashStar closes $15 million funding round | CashStar, a provider of prepaid commerce products, today announced the closing of $15 million in growth capital. FTV Capital led the Series D round, joined by new investor Mosaik Partners and existing investors Passport Capital, Intel Capit... |
| 05.04.2015 | Amazon Dash: Omni-channel marketing and omni-channel commerce converge | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! The news about Amazon’s “Dash” is a bold statemen... |
| 05.04.2015 | Amazon Dash: Omni-channel marketing and omni-channel commerce converge | The news about Amazon’s “Dash” is a bold statement of omni-channel commerce – literally – creating commerce channels out of everyday objects like a magnet you stick on your fridge or washing machine. You could argue that marketing has been ... |
| 11.09.2012 | Vinny Lingham’s Gyft launches, is TechCrunch Disrupt finalist | Back in April we gave you an exclusive peek at ex Yola chief Vinny Lingham’s new startup Gyft. Now you can try it out yourself following the social gifting service’s launch at TechCrunch Disrtupt San Francisco. Lingham, who started Gyft af... |
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