This past year marked significant milestones for BlinkSky, a global payments platform that delivers secure, interactive and customizable digital cards, real-time at scale.
Among its most recent accomplishments, BlinkSky raised $1.5M in its initial private round, with investment participation from industry luminaries, “including former c-suite executives from Systems and Methods, Inc. (SMI), MetaBank, Fiserv and InComm.”
BlinkSky Chairman and Founder Mark Chambers said:
“Our initial round, especially in a challenging economic climate, is a testament to the hard work of our team and the innovative potential that our platform unlocks. We’re not just creating basic codes and pins on plastic; we’re crafting a new mobile-first experience to revolutionize how our customers interact with digitally stored value on any device.”
Based in Atlanta, BlinkSky says that it “offers an advanced web portal or cloud-scale API to hundreds of digital gift card brands and digital prepaid cards that are securely delivered on-demand via SMS or email for instant use in-store or online.”
Among BlinkSky’s most recent milestones, the company marks the following:
- Welcoming government payment solutions provider Systems and Methods, Inc. (SMI) as a major client and strategic investor.
- Expanding collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, allowing agents nationwide to purchase digital cards for rewards and incentives.
- Piloting exploratory digital use cases to developing markets, the company onboarded Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), Jamaica’s largest power company, delivering digital utility payments end-to-end.
- Partnering with Marriott Bonvoy to introduce a new class of digital rewards and incentives for enterprise customers around the globe.
Chambers added:
“Our journey ahead encompasses harnessing the transformative power of digital stored value for our customers. We are at the cusp of a digital revolution in payments, and BlinkSky plans to play an active role in the charge.”
As noted in the update, BlinkSky is a global enabler of digital payments, “offering a wide range of digital gift card options for various industries to incorporate branded transactions for a mobile-first, frictionless user experience.”
BlinkSky’s innovative platform aims to “transform digital payments, empowering customers to engage beyond traditional physical gift cards with a flexible mobile-first rewards and incentives experience.”
