Venmo is a peer-to-peer payments app owned by PayPal that lets users buy, sell, hold, and transfer cryptocurrency directly within the app. Venmo's Twitter Score is 36 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #26,214 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Venmo was co-founded by Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail. The app was previously backed by RRE Ventures, Accel Partners, Greycroft Partners, betaworks, Founder Collective, and Lerer Ventures, and was formerly affiliated with Braintree before coming under PayPal's umbrella.
Venmo supports in-app crypto purchases starting at $1, with all custody, buying, and selling of cryptocurrency handled by Paxos Trust Company, LLC. PayPal has also announced that its PYUSD stablecoin, an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, will be made available on Venmo. In 2018, the FTC reached a settlement with PayPal over allegations related to Venmo, including alleged failure to disclose transfer risks and alleged misrepresentation of security practices.
Venmo has published 9,508 posts and has been mentioned by 940 accounts a total of 2,565 times, reflecting broad awareness of the platform across crypto Twitter.
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The accounts that follow Venmo include 144 founders, 40 angel investors, 59 influencers and 11 VCs, among them Stani, Udi Wertheimer, Gary Vaynerchuk, Fred Wilson, MoonPay and Matthew Graham.