Tracked deals
5
5 tracked deals across 2002-2026.
Public Company
Financial Services
PayPal Holdings
San Jose, California, United States
PayPal is a global payments and commerce platform enabling digital payments and merchant services for consumers and businesses.
- Focus Areas
- Digital payments, Merchant services, Digital wallet
- Website
- www.paypal.com
Recent pace
2
2 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.
Deal mix
Growth capital
3 growth capital · 2 buyout
PayPal Holdings Acquisition Volume by Year
Last 3 years
Actual
Full-year estimate
Supporting Data
Recent Transactions
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- Buyer
- Springcoast Partners, PayPal Ventures, Arsenal Growth Equity, Mercury Fund, Oak HC/FT
- Target
- Cart.com, Inc.
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Cart.com, Inc. announced a $180 million growth equity investment led by Springcoast Partners to support scaling its unified commerce and logistics platform. Springcoast is joining existing investors PayPal Ventures, Arsenal Growth Equity, Mercury Fund, and Oak HC/FT, with proceeds earmarked for further development of Cart.com’s software and expansion of its nationwide fulfillment and AI capabilities.
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- Buyer
- PayPal Holdings, Inc.
- Target
- Cymbio
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Israel
- Type
- Buyout
PayPal announced it has agreed to acquire Cymbio, a multi-channel orchestration platform that helps brands sell across “agentic” AI shopping surfaces and other e-commerce channels. The acquisition is expected to close in the first half of 2026 and is intended to strengthen PayPal’s agentic commerce capabilities, including Store Sync, which makes merchants’ product catalogs discoverable on AI platforms while routing orders into merchants’ fulfillment systems.
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February 8, 2022
- Buyer
- Carlyle, PayPal
- Target
- Shopware AG
- Industry
- Cloud & SaaS
- Location
- North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Type
- Growth capital
Shopware AG raised $100 million in growth capital from global investment firm Carlyle and payments platform PayPal to accelerate product innovation and international expansion. The Hamann founders retain a significant majority and will remain co-CEOs while Carlyle and PayPal provide capital and strategic support; Carlyle will also appoint board members.
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- Buyer
- Bain Capital Tech Opportunities, PayPal Ventures, Goldman Sachs, YJ Capital, Anatole Investment Management, World Innovation Lab
- Target
- hey, Coubic
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Type
- Growth capital
Bain Capital Tech Opportunities led a Series E growth investment in hey with participation from PayPal Ventures, Goldman Sachs, YJ Capital, Anatole, and World Innovation Lab to accelerate the company’s payments and e‑commerce platform growth. Concurrently, hey acquired Coubic to expand into consumer-facing reservations and adjacent services as part of its capability and product expansion strategy.
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October 4, 2002
- Buyer
- eBay Inc.
- Target
- PayPal Inc.
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
eBay Inc. has completed its acquisition of online payments company PayPal Inc. in a stock-swap transaction valued at $1.5 billion. PayPal will operate as an independent brand out of Mountain View, California, while eBay replaces its Billpoint system with PayPal; PayPal CEO Peter Thiel resigned and will be succeeded by eBay's Matt Bannick.
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