Boku, a US-based mobile payments platform Boku developer that counts telecommunications company Telefónica as an investor, has raised $13.8m in funding.
The oversubscribed round featured venture capital firms Khosla Ventures, Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Index Ventures and DAG Ventures, as well as undisclosed existing investors.
Boku bills itself as “the world’s largest direct carrier billing mobile payments company,” and partners with large online companies such as Facebook, Sony, Microsoft and Spotify to enable customers to pay for services through…