Sightline

About Sightline

Sightline Payments is a Las Vegas-based financial technology company that builds payment products for the gaming industry. Its products let patrons fund online and on-site wagering, and its website lists debit, prepaid and deposit products for casino, sports betting, horse racing and lottery operators. Its flagship product was long the Play+ pay-and-play account.

Company and investor releases name Omer Sattar, Kirk Sanford, Tom Sears, Harry Hagerty and Diran Kludjian as co-founders. The company began by handling payments for New Jersey's launch of online gaming in 2013, processed the first mobile sports betting payments in Nevada in 2014 and the first cashless casino transactions in Nevada in 2021. Sattar is chief executive. Joe Pappano led the company as chief executive from December 2020, and NRT Technology founder John Dominelli became executive chairman in February 2025.

Sightline Debit launched in August 2025 with Cross River Bank, which holds each patron's funds in a deposit account linked to a Visa debit card. Rush Street Interactive launched an integrated debit product with Sightline at BetRivers in September 2025. The company's website states that it works with more than 60 gaming partners, is live in 44 states and has created more than 5 million wallets.

Sightline acquired the Las Vegas casino mobile-app and loyalty platform JOINGO in June 2021. J.P. Morgan Payments became primary merchant acquirer for the Play+ platform in 2022 and later made a strategic investment. In March 2026 Sightline was named, with NRT Technology, as a technology partner in Advanced Digital Gaming Technology, an Abu Dhabi payments platform formed with Blackstone and Raya Holding, in which Blackstone funds invested $250 million.

Searchlight Capital Partners made a strategic investment in December 2020 at a post-money valuation of $525 million. In 2021 Cannae Holdings led a $100 million round in April and a $244 million round in August that valued the company at more than $1 billion. J.P. Morgan Payments invested in October 2022, and in February 2025 the company completed a management and shareholder-led recapitalisation in which its major investors recommitted.

Leadership

• Omer Sattar, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
• Tom Sears, Co-founder
• Harry Hagerty, Co-founder and shareholder
• Diran Kludjian, Co-founder and shareholder
• Brian Greene, Chief Financial Officer
• Mark Allison, Chief Technology Officer
• Mandi Hart, Head of Product
• John Dominelli, Executive Chairman

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