Payment platform Braintree announced that mobile game creator Rovio, the company behind the addictive Angry Birds franchise of mobile games, has selected Braintree as the payment gateway for its online and mobile store.

"Braintree is proud to provide the payments solution that allows Angry Birds' legions of fans around the world to further connect with their favorite games in the Angry Birds online store," said Bill Ready, CEO of Braintree.

Ready said his company's international payment processing and mobile capabilities, on top of its Vault credit card storage solution, make it an ideal choice for companies like Rovio that are expanding internationally and facing mounting PCI compliance overhead.

"We are thrilled that Braintree was able to provide us with a payments solution that meets our needs as a global brand and eliminates so much of our PCI compliance burden," said Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio. "We needed a payments solution that had scalability, security and flexibility. We also searched for a provider with a strong international track record and a support team that would be able to really cater to our needs."

Along with acting as a payment gateway, Braintree also provides mobile payment solutions that let developers offer one-click checkout, bandwidth-efficient transactions and encryption of credit card data on mobile devices, the company said.

Given the popularity of Rovio games, this is a nice client for Braintree to grab. The company already counts hot mobile and online startups such as developer network GitHub (which just raised $100 million yesterday), daily deal company LivingSocial, and car service app-maker Uber among its clients. Braintree, based in Chicago, raised $34 million in a Series A investment last year. Earlier this year the company opened a satellite office in Silicon Valley. 

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