- CEO
- Stuart Paul Neal
- Full Time Employees
- 592
- Sector
- Technology services
- Industry
- Packaged software
- Address
- 70 Gray’s Inn Road San Francisco CA United States WC1X 8NH
- IPO Date
- Nov 20, 2017
- Business
- Boku, Inc. (BOKU.L) is a payment technology company that provides a global network of localized payment solutions, including digital wallets, real-time payments schemes such as account-to-account (A2A), direct carrier billing, and mobile identity and authentication services, for global merchants seeking to acquire customers without credit cards. The company offers recurring billing, tokenization flows, customized merchant integrations, targeted marketing programs, payment optimization analysis, and services for global settlement, compliance, tax, and fraud mitigation; its network encompasses over 300 local payment methods like Alipay, Pix, PayPay, UPI, BLIK, and Twint, connecting merchants to more than 7.5 billion consumer payment accounts across 90 countries in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Boku serves major entertainment, eCommerce, and tech brands including Amazon, Google, Netflix, Spotify, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, Tencent, and Canva, targeting mobile-first consumers in digital goods, subscriptions, gaming, and advertising segments.
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional key offices in London and operations spanning 29 countries including Brazil, China, Estonia, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Singapore, and the UAE, Boku listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM market in 2017.
In recent developments, Boku launched an Innovation Hub in Singapore to advance cross-border payments with AI-enhanced FX, wallet interoperability, and AI/blockchain pilots; formed a strategic partnership with Canva to expand local payment methods in Asia and Europe; secured Payment Institution authorization from Brazil's Central Bank to enable Pix expansion in LATAM; appointed Leila Kassner as Chief Operating Officer leveraging her 11 years of internal expertise; earned the 2024 Frost & Sullivan Enabling Technology Leader award in Global Payment Facilitation and Juniper Research's Payment Innovation of the Year; deepened ties with Google via BLIK in Poland and Amazon Japan; and reported H1 2025 revenue exceeding $63 million, up 34% year-over-year, with digital wallet/A2A growth near 90% and monthly active users at 95 million.