Confinity

Confinity
IndustrySoftware industry
FoundedDecember 1998; 25 years ago (1998-12)
FoundersMax Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek
DefunctMarch 2000; 24 years ago (2000-03)
FateMerged with X.com
SuccessorPayPal, Inc.
Headquarters,
ProductsPayPal

Confinity Inc. was an American software company based in Silicon Valley, best known as the creator of PayPal. It was founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek, initially as a Palm Pilot payments and cryptography company.[1]

  1. ^ Lillington, Karlin. "PayPal Puts Dough in Your Palm". Wired. Retrieved 2017-04-10.