PayPal: brands it owns and its ownership tree
PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is a publicly listed company headquartered in San Jose, California, United States that owns 4 consumer brands.[1]
PayPal grew out of a 2000 merger between Confinity and Elon Musk's X.com, was bought by eBay in 2002, and was spun back out as a separate company in 2015. Its early employees went on to found or fund a striking share of the companies that followed, a group the press calls the PayPal Mafia.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- PayPal Holdings, Inc.
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States
- Founded
- 1998
- Tickers
- NASDAQ: PYPL
- SEC CIK
- 0001633917
- Website
- newsroom.paypal-corp.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
PayPal in numbers
- PayPal owns 4 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is internet & digital with 4 brands.[1]
Everything PayPal owns
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Frequently asked questions
What brands does PayPal own?
PayPal owns 4 consumer brands tracked here, including Braintree, PayPal, Venmo and Honey.
Is PayPal an American company?
Yes. PayPal is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States and was founded in 1998.
Who owns PayPal?
PayPal is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as PYPL on the NASDAQ.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] PayPal Holdings, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-03 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 3 February 2026; retrieved 6 September 2026.
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