SINGAPORE, 2 June, 2022 – Triple-A, a Digital Currency Payments Company, announced that it secured $4 million in funding led by leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, Razer’s corporate ventures arm, zVentures. Triple-A is the first Digital Currency Payments Company that has earned the Digital Payment Token license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). This allows the company to provide end-to-end digital currency payment services for businesses in full compliance with global regulatory standards.
Eric Barbier, founder, and CEO of Triple-A shares that “this strategic investor partnership with zVentures brings knowledge, connections and consultancy in the gaming sector for Triple-A, a key vertical for digital currencies payments.”
Right now, there is immense potential for digital currencies to be more involved in the gaming industry. According to a survey conducted by World Asset eXchange, 80 percent of gamers are interested in using digital currency to make transactions within gaming. Close to two-thirds wish there were more opportunities to do so.
“Through zVentures, we are always on the lookout for market-leading, early-stage companies such as Triple-A, to nurture and support them,” said Li Meng Lee, Chief Strategy Officer at Razer. “Triple-A is a clear leader in digital currencies payments, an area of interest and relevance to us in the gaming space. We look forward to this strategic partnership with them, accelerating their growth and adoption by leveraging on our existing ecosystem of hardware, software and services.”
Triple-A is founded by Eric Barbier, a repeat FinTech entrepreneur with a proven track record of building successful payments companies. He co-founded Mobile 365 back in 1999, a mobile messaging hub which reached a subscriber base of over 400 million. It was acquired by Sybase (now SAP) for $425M. He then founded TransferTo (now Thunes and DTone) in 2006 on the idea that transferring money should be as easy as sending a text message. Today, Thunes has raised over $60M, and is now the largest payment network connected to mobile wallets. With partners like Paypal and M-Pesa in its network, Thunes supports 60+ currencies, enables payments to 110+ countries, and helps businesses accept 285+ payment methods.
With more than 15 years of FinTech and payments experience on Eric Barbier’s belt, he believes digital currencies payments is the future that is unfolding right now.
This news follows the recent announcement that Triple-A was selected by Binance as its global digital currency gateway.
About Triple-A
Triple-A helps businesses increase their revenue by enabling digital currencies payments and payouts, giving them access to the spending power of the fast-growing 300m+ digital currency users.
With its white-label, easy setup, instant confirmation, locked-in exchange rate, real-time fiat conversion, and no chargeback digital currencies payment solution, Triple-A meets the needs of all businesses. This includes e-commerce merchants, retailers, game providers, PSPs, fintech, marketplaces and tech companies.
The company is licensed by MAS, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Singapore’s Central Bank), allowing partners to operate in a fully compliant and regulated environment. To learn more, visit https://content.triple-a.io/.
About zVentures
zVentures is Razer Inc’s early-stage venture arm and an integral part of its strategic investment activities. zVentures typically invest in Seed and Series A start-ups across gaming, consumer tech, deep tech and sustainability globally that can add strategic value to the Razer ecosystem. As the world’s leading lifestyle brand for gamers with over 150M users, zVentures brings significant value to its portfolio companies. In addition to providing capital, zVentures is able to provide portfolio companies access to Razer’s extensive global network of suppliers, OEMs, customers and investors, as well as allow them to interface with in-house experts, like-minded founders, and influencers. To learn more, visit https://www.zvntrs.com/ .
