According to a press release, Paydiant, the stealth mobile payments startup we wrote about back in December, just raised a $7.6 million Series A from General Catalyst and North Bridge Venture Partners.

The team behind the company includes Kevin Laracey, Joe Paratore, and Chris Gardner who began working together at edocs, an e-billing solution that sold to Siebel Systems for $115 million in 2005. Laracey, co-founder of edocs, held positions at Sigma Partners, and Gardner and Paratore went on to build m-Qube which sold to Verisign for $250 million in 2006. Paratore stayed with Verisign and Gardner cofounded ExtendMedia. The investors have also worked with Paydiant’s cofounders before: Jim Moran of North Bridge was co-founder of edocs and John Simon of General Catalyst sat on the Board of m-Qube.

Paydiant is still in stealth mode, planning to launch later this year, and the capital raised will be used to build out its sales and marketing team. While many know the difficulties of on-boarding all sides of a payment platform (consumers, merchants, financial institutions), the Paydiant solution “works with existing members in the ecosystem instead of creating its own brand.”

While the co-founders are not open to interviews at this time, in the release Gardner states:

“Enabling consumers to use their phones to make everyday purchases is a huge market opportunity. We have assembled a team who understand both the business and technology issues that must be addressed to create new mobile payments offerings for broad adoption. This group has hands-on experience creating and operating successful online and mobile platforms that facilitate billions of dollars in payments for many of the world’s largest companies today. We are fortunate to partner with North Bridge and General Catalyst who also have deep expertise in both mobile and payment technologies.”

Tech Review recently published an infographic depicting the current state of consumer payment choice that we wanted to include, too: