Confinity
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| Industry | Software industry, online payments |
|---|---|
| Founded | December 1998 |
| Founders | Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan |
| Defunct | March 2000 |
| Fate | Merged with X.com, form PayPal |
| Successor | PayPal, Inc. |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Products | PayPal |
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, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, and Yu Pan initially as a PalmPilot payments and cryptography company before pivoting to an email-based payments product.