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Who Owns Venmo?

PayPal owns Venmo. Indeed, since 2002, PayPal acquired several brands. In 2013, as PayPal bought Braintree, indirectly, it also bought Venmo. In fact, Braintree had acquired Venmo in 2012 for $26.2 million. Therefore, by 2013, Venmo entered into the PayPal family of brads comprising payment solutions like Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, and iZettle products.

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Venmo is a peer-to-peer payments app enabling users to share and make payments with friends for a variety of services. The service is free, but a 3% fee applies to credit cards. Venmo got acquired in 2012 by Braintree, and Braintree got acquired in 2013 by PayPal.
how-does-venmo-make-money
Venmo got acquired in 2012 by Braintree. Braintree was acquired in 2013 by PayPal. Thus, Venmo is part of the PayPal ecosystem. Venmo is a peer-to-peer payments app that allows users to share and make payments with friends for a variety of services. When you send money using your Venmo balance the fees are wained. Thus the service is free. However, the 3% fee applies to credit cards. That is how the company generates revenues.
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eBay core business is a platform business model that makes money from transaction fees happening through its marketplaces (eBay and StubHub). eBay also makes money through advertising on its classifieds marketplace and other services. The company primarily makes money by charging fees on successfully closed transactions.
how-does-paypal-make-money
PayPal makes money primarily by processing customer transactions on the Payments Platform and from other value-added services. Thus, the revenues streams are divided into transaction revenues based on the volume of activity or total payments volume. And value-added services, such as interest and fees earned on loans and interest receivable. As of 2017 PayPal generated over $13 billion in net revenues and almost $1.8 billion in net income. 

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