aid: clover-networks
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/clover-networks.png
name: Clover Networks
description: >-
  Clover Network Inc. was a Silicon Valley mobile-payments startup that launched
  publicly in March 2012 with a one-click, app-based checkout network aiming to
  complete a payment in under five seconds using a phone number and PIN, charging
  merchants a 3% per-transaction fee and seeding adoption with a developer fund
  and instant-refund incentives. It raised $5.8M from Andreessen Horowitz and
  Sutter Hill Ventures and was acquired by First Data on December 28, 2012. The
  Clover name and technology were carried forward by First Data into the Clover
  point-of-sale platform, which is now owned by Fiserv and covered separately in
  the API Evangelist network by the `clover` repository. This entity is a
  historical a16z portfolio lead and no longer operates as an independent company
  or publishes its own developer surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/clover-networks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- Sutter Hill Ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: First Data
x-acquired-date: '2012-12-28'
x-successor-repo: clover
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Mobile Payments
- Point of Sale
- Fintech
- Checkout
- Acquired
- a16z Portfolio
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence