E-mail payment firm X.com Corp. won $100
million in a financing round led by private investment firm Madison Dearborn Partners.
New investors include include Singapore-based Temasek, Vertex and
Development Bank of Singapore; Japan-based Compass Partners and Hikari
Tsushin; and TAMC of Taiwan. Additional investors include LabMorgan, J.P.
Morgan’s e-finance unit; funds managed by Capital Research and Management
Co.; Digital Century Capital; and Bayview 2000, an affiliate of Robertson
Stevens.
Previous investors include Sequoia Capital, Deutsche Bank, the Goldman Sachs
Group Inc., idealab Capital Partners, and Elon Musk are participating in
this round as well.
Madison Dearborn’s Director Tim Hurd will join X.com’s board of directors.
X.com owes this latest round of investments to its success, having acquired
over 1 million customers in the four months since its launch.
“X.com’s cash-based network offers a real-time, secure ‘anytime, anywhere’
payment solution that finally meets the needs of today’s
mobile, electronic economy,” Hurd said. “MDP’s investment in X.com is
consistent with our investment objective of backing outstanding management
teams of leading, innovative companies that have a significant first mover
advantage in very large, attractive segments of the economy.”
Last month, X.com merged with e-mail billing provider PayPal.com.