"Voyager is funding...a local online-payments company called CheckSpace Inc. built around a core of Microsoft engineers..."
"...a Seattle startup called CheckSpace Inc...uses the Internet to help small firms deliver invoices and receive payments from customers. Bassam Saliba, who ran the 80-person TransPoint technical team at Microsoft, is a co-founder. CheckSpace Wednesday said it had received $11 million in venture-capital financing."
"The service, which officially launches this week, makes paying a bill as easily as sending an e-mail..."
"CheckSpace, which has created an online check-payment system for small business owners, plans to close between $5 million and $10 million in its first round of funding this week."