Called Transactor Networks, the company recently received $5 million in venture capital from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Its management team has been involved in the growth of e-commerce, including the development of Java and the formation of TRUSTe.
Transactor Networks worked with Citibank to sponsor and promote the initial W@llet pilot, called the CitiWallet. MBNA also offers the service.
Competition includes CyberCash's InstaBuy, eWallet and others.
Transactor Networks Inc. was founded in 1997 by CEO Ron Martinez, a consumer software executive and an inventor of Transactor Networks' technology. The company says its mission is to provide a standard interface to online commerce, from the point-of-sale, to customer service and beyond, replacing "the bewildering array of complicated, one-of-a-kind purchase experiences currently confronting the online shopper."
The W@llet is the front end to Transactor Networks' e-commerce services. The W@llet stores personal and credit card information, as well as profiles of various online merchants.
When a customer wants to buy from one of the sites Transactor Networks supports, they call up the W@llet by clicking on a browser bookmark. The W@llet analyzes the merchant's site, and constructs a simplified, standardized point-and-click front-end for the customer.
Martinez previously founded two other software development enterprises and helped build Spectrum Holobyte, a privately owned $7 million company, into a publicly owned $300 million corporation.
CTO Ted Goldstein was head of commerce at Sun Microsystems and a contributor to the development of the Java Card, Java Ring and Java Wallet.
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