looks like the pump is already over.
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Omise, a payment gateway and blockchain tech startup from Thailand, has raised yet more funding. This time it’s from Thai financial institution Krungsri Finnovate, a subsidiary of the Bank of Ayudhya.
Omise is used by the likes of McDonald’s in Thailand to facilitate digital purchases through the fast food chain’s website and app. Outside of Thailand, Omise operates in Singapore and Japan.
In previous rounds, the startup has locked in about US$25 million in venture capital and US$25 million in an ICO since launching in 2014. Its market cap post-ICO has already soared to above US$1 billion.
The startup says Krungsri’s is a “series B plus round” but didn’t disclose the amount. It’s a strategic investment that will let the bank make use of some of Omise’s products, including OmiseGo, a suite of blockchain-powered real-time money transfers and payments tools that’s currently still under development.
Krungsri plans to “potentially support the development of our digital products and services such as KMA, Di-wallet, and U-Choose,” Krungsri’s Sam Tanskul says in a company statement.
KMA is Krungsri’s mobile application that allows users to manage their savings accounts, make transfers, pay bills, and use other Krungsri products. The Di Wallet is used for payments through QR codes, for example, in canteens for purchasing food and drinks.Meanwhile, U-Choose is a credit card manager app which summarizes transactions and the latest promotions.
Omise’s payment gateway currently supports card payments (both credit and debit), internet banking, and Alipay.
It’s similar to other regional payment gateways such as 2C2P from Singapore, as well as Midtrans, Doku, and Xendit in Indonesia. It also faces competition from global players such as Stripe.
One of Omise’s strengths, according to the firm, is that its payment platform is white-labeled, which means that end users do not get redirected to a third-party page when making payments.
Clients range from businesses just starting out like startups and SMEs to large-scale enterprises. Typical client segments are quick restaurant services, property management, and insurers, says the firm, with “thousands of merchants” currently using the system.
Omise also plans to bring out a type of bill payments product soon in Thailand, where a merchant can generate a barcode and the customer uses that to present at the payment points in supported stores and pay by cash.
So far, plans to launch in Southeast Asia’s largest economy, Indonesia, have not yet materialized, but that’s “on the horizon,” according to the firm.
Omise actually started as an ecommerce platform in 2013, but its founders Jun Hasegawa and Donnie Harinsut had a hard time looking for a payment provider. So the team decided to create one themselves, from then on focusing on building the payment gateway instead.
Investors in previous rounds include Japanese venture capital firm SBI Investment, Sinar Mas Digital Ventures of Indonesia, Ascend Money of Thailand, Singapore’s Golden Gate Ventures, as well as East Ventures and 500 Startups.
Quote: (10-01-2017 02:31 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:Care to elaborate on the "bad flags"?
God it feels like I'm shitting on everybody's coins and I hate to say it, because OMG is a solid project and I love it, but...
There are some serious bad flags with OMG and it's not the sure buy it seemed to be a month ago. I don't think it's something you can let sit for years.
This market is so hyped up and so frenetic right now that things are being driven to insane valuations, far far beyond what they're likely to maintain in the future. I'm not sure OMG is worth 1 billion dollars.
Quote: (10-21-2017 10:48 AM)Dvorak Wrote:
Quote: (10-01-2017 02:31 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:Care to elaborate on the "bad flags"?
God it feels like I'm shitting on everybody's coins and I hate to say it, because OMG is a solid project and I love it, but...
There are some serious bad flags with OMG and it's not the sure buy it seemed to be a month ago. I don't think it's something you can let sit for years.
This market is so hyped up and so frenetic right now that things are being driven to insane valuations, far far beyond what they're likely to maintain in the future. I'm not sure OMG is worth 1 billion dollars.
I do agree that the valuation is very high. This coin is directly linked to the success of OmiseGo as a company, and the earning (fees) that each coin will produce. It also on the success of Ethereum as a network, which also remains to be proven. Competition will also pop up the coming years...
I'm still tempted to buy because I love the setup of the coin and the team, and Vitalik can play a huge factor.
Quote: (10-21-2017 04:57 PM)Bill Brasky Wrote:
Ok. I'm going to throw my ego to the forum.
I took out a large long position on OMG right before this alt crash (OMGBTC) and am now down about 0.74 BTC and I have enough in the margin account to prevent liquidation no matter how low it goes.
I'm thinking I will just keep it open for a bit longer before deciding to just close and take my losses as I believe that it could at least go back up to 0.0019 BTC/OMG (the price at which I opened).
Any thoughts?
Quote: (10-21-2017 02:03 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:Yes, probably right. 800 million for a such a small company (without even a working product) is insane. Even if they have a guaranteed massive success at some point (which is still very uncertain) the current price is probably too high.
Travel Museums said what I feel, just in a nicer way.
At an 8 million dollar valuation, OMG is a really cool tech with a lot of potential.
At 800 million, it's a monument to human stupidity and greed.
Quote: (10-21-2017 04:57 PM)Bill Brasky Wrote:
Ok. I'm going to throw my ego to the forum.
I took out a large long position on OMG right before this alt crash (OMGBTC) and am now down about 0.74 BTC and I have enough in the margin account to prevent liquidation no matter how low it goes.
I'm thinking I will just keep it open for a bit longer before deciding to just close and take my losses as I believe that it could at least go back up to 0.0019 BTC/OMG (the price at which I opened).
Any thoughts?
Quote: (10-28-2017 04:36 AM)NewMeta Wrote:
They released their updated roadmap: https://blog.omisego.network/omisego-roa...bfca386e25
Notable milestone is Q1 2018 for the wallet and SDK.
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#OmiseGO team are really working hard on real product. Especially good progress our SDK. Sample app + sdk works well on my Phone#wallet #sdk #interoperability #plasma #public #chain
Quote: (12-04-2017 08:08 PM)yaku Wrote:
The wallet is nearing launch.
https://twitter.com/JUN_Omise/status/937841630987423744
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#OmiseGO team are really working hard on real product. Especially good progress our SDK. Sample app + sdk works well on my Phone#wallet #sdk #interoperability #plasma #public #chain