who owns venmo

Venmo is owned by PayPal Holdings, Inc. , and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of PayPal rather than as an independent company or joint venture.

Current owner

• PayPal acquired Venmo in 2013 when it bought the payment company Braintree, which already owned Venmo at the time.

• Since that acquisition, Venmo has remained under PayPal Holdings, Inc., which is a publicly traded company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker PYPL.

How ownership works

• Venmo does not have its own separate parent company; strategic decisions and high-level control sit with PayPal’s executive team, and Venmo functions as a subsidiary brand and product line within PayPal’s broader payments ecosystem.

• Because PayPal is public, large institutional investors (like major asset managers) indirectly have influence over Venmo through their shareholdings in PayPal itself.

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