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Braintree

American  
[breyn-tree] / ˈbreɪnˌtri /

noun

  1. a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.


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In 2013, PayPal acquired the fintech company Braintree, which owned the social payment service Venmo, giving PayPal an edge in mobile commerce.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

"For local people here in Braintree and around, this means an awful lot," Reid said.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

First, analyst Dan Dolev says PayPal’s Braintree web payments processor would add about $700 billion of total payment volume to Stripe’s $1.4 billion TPV, helping the company compete with Adyen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

On one hand, PayPal’s assets, which also include Venmo, Braintree and remittance products, “are deeply synergistic,” wrote Bernstein analyst Harshita Rawat.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 4, 2026

Instead, he was born in Braintree, twelve miles south of Boston, in 1735, the son of a farmer and shoemaker, who sent Adams to Harvard in the hope he might become a minister.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis