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ACME Technologies Inc.

“Can a vertical SaaS ticketing platform for cultural institutions capture the payments margin by becoming the PayFac of record for museums, zoos, and aquariums?”

Founded2013
HQSan Jose, California, United States
FoundersGarrett Price
Latest roundAcquired by Peek
IndustryVertical SaaS / Cultural Institutions (Ticketing)
The story

ACME was founded in 2013 by Ticketmaster and PayPal alumni as a modern cloud-based ticketing platform aimed specifically at museums, zoos, aquariums, and botanical gardens — a segment underserved by legacy admissions systems. Over time it layered in memberships, donations, and group sales to become an all-in-one commerce OS for cultural institutions. The most consequential embedded-finance move was becoming a registered payment facilitator and launching Embedded Payments, capturing the payment processing margin that had previously flowed to third-party gateways. ACME was subsequently acquired by Peek, positioning it inside a broader attractions/experiences commerce group.

Last 12 months
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Product timeline
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Launched Embedded Payments as a registered PayFac with integrated Fraud Shield and 3DS.· payments
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Acquired by Peek (now operates as subsidiary alongside Connect&GO in Peek portfolio).· acquisition
2013
Founded by former Ticketmaster and PayPal executives to build cloud-native ticketing for cultural institutions.· founding
2018
Bill Shaughnessy named CEO.· leadership
Regulated entities
1
regulatory licence held by ACME Technologies Inc.
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
2 layers disclosed in ACME Technologies Inc.’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
ACME Embedded Payments (self-operated PayFac)
Accounting
in the full report
Accounting gap: significant
8 more providers across 1 layer, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.