Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Mobile Payments space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Ryan Breslow
Co-Founder and CEO of Bolt
Ryan is cofounder and CEO at Bolt, an end-to-end platform that replaces fragmented online shopping, payment, and fraud software. Ryan is also a thought-leader in the digital currency space, having cofounded the Beam currency and started the original Stanford Bitcoin Group. Mr. Breslow is a former Co-Founder and CEO at Sites by Hand. He studied Computer Science at Stanford University.
Follow Ryan Breslow:
About Bolt: Bolt is developing a checkout experience platform that helps retailers convert and retain more of their shoppers.
_______
David Moss
Co-Founder and CEO of StrongBlock
David Moss is a blockchain expert, keynote speaker and strategic advisor. He has the distinction of holding two prominent roles in the creation of EOS, the decentralized blockchain operating system: as SVP of Technology Operations at Block.One leading EOS technology development; and directing the EOS mainnet launch with the worldwide Block Producer community. Previously David was the founder of a technology and management consultancy for Fortune 100 companies, the founder of a predictive crowd analytics platform, the founding CIO of Edmunds.com, and President of an entertainment production company working with top international artists for major label and television networks.
Follow David Moss:
About StrongBlock: StrongBlock is a team of highly experienced blockchain, governance, security, and database technology experts.
Jack Dorsey
Co-Founder & CEO of Square
Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Twitter Ventures
Follow Jack Dorsey:
About Cash App, Square, Twitter Ventures: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Ron Hose
Founder and CEO of Coins.ph
Ron Hose CEO of Coins.ph, a company that delivers financial services over mobile to people in Southeast Asia. Prior to coins.ph, Ron was the CTO of the video communication service [TokBox](/organization/tokbox). He co-founded the company with Serge Faguet in 2007. Most recently, Ron was a founding partner at Innovation Endeavors, an early stage venture capital fund backed by [Eric Schmidt](/person/eric-schmidt). Ron graduated from Cornell University with a Masters degree in Computer Science.
Follow Ron Hose:
About Coins.ph: Coins.ph delivers financial services over mobile to people who are currently unserved by traditional banks.
Adolfo Babatz
Co-Founder & CEO of Clip
Adolfo Babatz is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PayClip Inc., a mobile payments platform for Emerging Markets. The company is based in Redwood City, California and Mexico City. Before Clip, Adolfo was responsible for Customer Engagement for PayPal LatinAmerica. Before moving into the product team Adolfo led the team that opened PayPal in Mexico. Right before PayPal, Adolfo studied his MBA at MIT where he specialized in Entrepreneurship & Economics of Information. Prior to MIT, Adolfo was part of the founding team at The Carlyle Group Mexico where he worked as an Analyst. Before joining Carlyle, Adolfo worked as an Advisor for the Executive VicePresident of GrupoDesc, one of Mexico’s largest industrial conglomerates.
Follow Adolfo Babatz:
About Clip: Clip is the leading digital payments and commerce enablement platform in Mexico.
Maurice Harary
Founder and CEO of Fluz
Maurice is a Founder of the Fluz App. He is a serial entrepreneur with a 10-year background in e-commerce. He currently manages over 20 e-commerce sites in the B2B and B2C environment, ranging from interactive learning-based experiences to price-competitive marketplace trading sites. Experience in all areas of e-commerce sites, ranging from custom e-commerce software development to operational planning. He has extensive experience in fashion eCommerce and marketplace selling.
Follow Maurice Harary:
About Fluz: Reinventing cashback to give you more. Get paid when you shop + when your friends shop. Earn Cashback Forever.
Jonathan Bittner
CEO & Co-Founder of Splitwise
He is Co-founder and CEO of Splitwise.
Follow Jonathan Bittner:
About Splitwise: Splitwise is a mobile app and web platform that builds consumer FinTech software to help users split expenses.
Maijid Moujaled
Co-Founder & President of Chipper Cash
Maijid Moujaled is a co-founder and president at Chipper Cash.
Follow Maijid Moujaled:
About Chipper Cash: Chipper Cash is a fintech platform that offers mobile, cross-border money transfer services.
Ham Serunjogi
Co-Founder & CEO of Chipper Cash
Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.
Follow Ham Serunjogi:
About Chipper Cash: Chipper Cash is a fintech platform that offers mobile, cross-border money transfer services.
Will Graylin
Co-Founder & CEO of LoopPay
Will has built several successful companies in the mobile computing space. With his background in electrical engineering, computer science and psycho-acoustics (how humans perceive sound), he founded OnVocal to tackle the fundamental problems with how we hear and are heard when interacting with our smartphones and other devices. Founder CEO of LoopPay sold to Samsung, now Global Co-GM Samsung Pay; Board of Directors Synchrony (SYF NYSE); MIT Connection Science Fellow; Founder/CEO of: ROAM Data (sold to Ingenico); WAY System (sold to Verifone); EntitleNet (sold to BEA/Oracle); MIT Dual Masters; Nuclear Submarine Officer;
Follow Will Graylin:
About Indigo Technologies, LoopPay, MIT Media Lab, Onvocal, OV Loop: LoopPay is an m-commerce platform provider that enables retail consumers to pay with their mobile phones.
Tomas Campos
CEO and Co-Founder of Spinwheel
Tomás Campos is the CEO and Co-Founder of Spinwheel.
Follow Tomas Campos:
About Spinwheel: Transform how your business and your customers see, understand, and act on debt with our industry-leading debt APIs and drop-in modules.
Tushar Vaish
Co-Founder and CTO of Spinwheel
Tushar Vaish is the Co-Founder and CTO of Spinwheel.
Follow Tushar Vaish:
About Spinwheel: Transform how your business and your customers see, understand, and act on debt with our industry-leading debt APIs and drop-in modules.
Steve Beauregard
Co-Founder & Chairman of GoCoin
Steve Beauregard is the Co-Founder & Chairman at GoCoin. Steve recently joined Bloq to bring blockchain solutions to large enterprise customers and gov’t agencies worldwide. Prior to GoCoin, Steve ran an enterprise software firm integrating mobile and eCommerce applications. In recent years Steve has delivered keynote speeches and spoken at top universities on cryptocurrencies and mobile payments.
Follow Steve Beauregard:
About GoCoin: GoCoin develops a payment gateway for online and retail merchants to accept bitcoin as a payment method.
Ruben Flores-Martinez
Founder & CEO of CASHDROP
Ruben Flores-Martinez is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at CASHDROP.
Follow Ruben Flores-Martinez:
About CASHDROP, Sugr: CASHDROP is a mobile commerce platform that helps businesses create and manage an online storefront from a smartphone.
Danny Shader
Founder and CEO of PayNearMe
Danny Shader is the founder and CEO of PayNearMe, the world’s only real-time electronic cash transaction network. PayNearMe is used by financial institutions, utilities companies, property managers and other businesses to digitize cash collections and eliminate the hassle of manual collection methods such as money orders. The service allows consumers who need to use or prefer cash, to easily make payments at over 17,000 retail locations including 7-Eleven and Family Dollar stores using cash. Danny has a long history of building innovative, high-growth companies. In 2000, he was tapped by Eric Hahn to lead Good Technology, a struggling company that made MP3 players that attached to PDAs. He scrapped the hardware plan, built a corporate messaging service to run on devices competing with BlackBerry, and by 2004, had Good’s software running on Palm Treo, RIM’s main competitor. Three years later, Motorola bought Good for $500 million. Before Good Technology, Danny co-founded Accept.com, the first consumer-to-consumer payment services company, which he sold to Amazon in 1999 for $175 million. Danny holds an engineering degree from University of California Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University. Follow him on Twitter at @dshader.
Follow Danny Shader:
About Handle Financial, PayNearMe: PayNearMe is a provider of web and mobile-based cash payments platform designed to facilitate online purchases and bill payments.
Mike Shim
Founder & CEO of True North Cos.
True North Cos. is a private investment and advisory firm building valuable, enduring businesses in technology, financial services and consumer products. Founded in 2012 by Mike Shim, a corporate/M&A lawyer-turned tech executive, entrepreneur and venture investor based in Silicon Valley, True North Cos. works with world-beating leaders at startups and Fortune 500 companies alike to build more purposeful companies. Purposeful companies share a common mission of improving the world through business, while delivering superior long-term returns to their employees, investors and the communities they serve.
Follow Mike Shim:
About DigiSure, Nextury Ventures, True North Cos.: Building companies with purpose.
Brian McLaren Foote
Founder & CEO of HUMBL
Follow Brian McLaren Foote:
About HUMBL: HUMBL provides merchant services software which is being developed to accommodate the migration by governments to digital forms.
Michele Rivera
Founder & Vice President, Global Partnerships of HUMBL
Michele Rivera is the Founder and Vice President, Global Partnerships at HUMBL.
Follow Michele Rivera:
About HUMBL: HUMBL provides merchant services software which is being developed to accommodate the migration by governments to digital forms.
Peter Kellis
Founder & CEO of TRAY
Peter Kellis is the Founder & CEO at TRAY.
Follow Peter Kellis:
About TRAY: TRAY® is a complete point of sale system for the enterprise that specializes in self-service ordering.
Tom Villante
Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder of YapStone
Tom co-founded YapStone, Inc. in 1999 and serves as its Chairman of the Board. Villante served as the Chief Executive Officer of YapStone, Inc. He served as a Partner of The Seidler Company (“TSC”), a leveraged buyout firm in Los Angeles.
Follow Tom Villante:
About YapStone: YapStone is a global provider of online and mobile payment solutions for global marketplaces and large vertical markets.
Marshall Hayner
CEO, Co-Founder of Metal Pay
Marshall Hayner is CEO and Co-Founder of Metal, a payments processing platform that pays people cryptocurrency for making transactions on the blockchain. Marshall believes that Metal can change the way the world views money. Not only has Marshall started the first Facebook integrated bitcoin wallet QuickCoin in 2014, but he has worked on numerous digital currency projects including Dogecoin, Stellar, Block.io, ChangeTip, and the Bitcoin Fair. Marshall is an advocate for social good and has started the Metal Foundation to promote social causes through cryptocurrency.
Follow Marshall Hayner:
About Metal Pay: Metal Pay develops a blockchain based payments and rewards wallet for digital assets.
Kalpesh Kapadia
Co-Founder and CEO of Deserve
Kalpesh Kapadia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Deserve.
Follow Kalpesh Kapadia:
About Deserve: Deserve offers fair credit products for young people and a cloud-based credit card platform for businesses.
Rodney Williams
Co-Founder | Chairman of LISNR
Rodney Williams is the co-founder of SoLo Funds and LISNR.
Follow Rodney Williams:
About LISNR, LISNR, SoLo Funds: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Chris Ostoich
Co-Founder of LISNR
Chris Ostoich is Co-Founder and Head of Innovation at LISNR, the world’s leading data-over-audio platform,and the new standard for microcommunications between devices using sound. LISNR’s proprietary technology is being used to connect the customer journey and power transactions around the globe – for customers like Visa, Target, METRO, Ticketmaster, Macy’s, Jaguar Land Rover and more. Under the founder’s leadership, the company has raised more than $50MM in venture capital (from the likes of Visa, Intel and Synchrony Financial), joined the TechStars Connected Devices Accelerator, grown to more than 50 employees in 3 offices, won a Gold Lion at Cannes Lions International Festival for Creativity, and has been named to CNBC’s Disruptor50 three times. In addition to LISNR, Chris also serves the Founder and Chairman of the professional athlete representation and development agency BLVCKOPS, Founder and Chairman of global talent series DisruptHR, and head of digital strategy for ArtsWave, greater Cincinnati’s local arts agency and the nation’s first and largest community campaign for the arts. Chris is a sought after public speaker, a contributing writer in Forbes, Fast Company and Inc., and an active investor in a variety of companies including FC Cincinnati, ShowerPill, and many more.
Follow Chris Ostoich:
About LISNR: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
William McClelland
Co-Founder & Partner of Elizabeth Street Ventures
Co-founder & Partner at Elizabeth Street Ventures, an early stage investment firm focused on the digital consumer and next generation brands Co-founder of Bambike, a bamboo bicycle manufacturer and tour operator with an environmental & social mission based in the Philippines Prior to founding Elizabeth Street, I was a Partner at Grace Beauty Capital, a Managing Director/Portfolio Manager at Ironwood Capital Management and a Tech-Investment Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers Investor @ Bambike, Birchbox, Costa Brazil, Current, Eloquii, Events.com, Glamsquad, High Court, MM. LaFleur, Parachute Home, Perch Interactive, Pixlee, Primary.com, Ringly, Rothy’s, SKU IQ, Sourceeasy, Supergoop!, ThirdLove, Trendalytics, Vengo. Graduated from Yale University with a BA double major in Economics and Anthropology.
Follow William McClelland:
About Elizabeth Street Ventures: We are an early stage investment firm focused on the digital consumer and next generation brands that improve daily life
Donald Kasdon
Founder of T1 Payments
Follow Donald Kasdon:
About T1 Payments: T1 Payments specializes in global high risk payment processing in more than 160 currencies
Ben Turner
CEO and Founder of Verituity
Ben Turner is the CEO and Founder at Verituity.
Follow Ben Turner:
About Verituity: Verituity is a verified digital payments platform that connects banks, businesses, and payees to first-time and on-time digital payouts.
Moncef Abbou
Founder of CurbStand
Follow Moncef Abbou:
About CurbStand: Seamless, cashless valet parking in Los Angeles. Pay & tip right from your phone.
Inigo Rumayor Belausteguigoitia
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Arcus
Inigo Rumayor Belausteguigoitia is Founder at Regalii.
Follow Inigo Rumayor Belausteguigoitia:
About Arcus: Arcus is a payments-as-a-service platform, fueling smarter, faster, integrated, and more accessible financial services.
Edrizio De La Cruz
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Arcus
Edrizio De La Cruz is Founder at Regalii.
Follow Edrizio De La Cruz:
About Arcus: Arcus is a payments-as-a-service platform, fueling smarter, faster, integrated, and more accessible financial services.
Shawn Melamed
Co-Founder and CEO of Spiral
Shawn Melamed is a serial fintech entrepreneur that founded Spiral. He is the former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. He also founded software company Correlix, which was acquired by TSA, and led StrikeNet to its M&A with TMX Group.
Follow Shawn Melamed:
About Spiral: Spiral is a provider of a banking solution for the charitable sector.
Jason Meltzer
Co-Founder & CTO of Papaya
Follow Jason Meltzer:
About LA CTO Forum, Papaya, SightCine: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Patrick Kann
CEO and Co-Founder of Papaya
Follow Patrick Kann:
About Papaya: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Massimo Barone
CEO & Founder of SmartCard Marketing Systems Inc. (SMKG:OTC)
Our management team has over 25 years of development and payment expertise and has worked with Banks, Telecom & Payment Acquirers Globally with success. Our most recent success was launched in the Mobile Payment segment in 2012 as the first PIN Debit over smartphones in multiple OS’s with Bancnet Philippines and in 2013 with Vodafone an APN with Mobile Payments over their global network.. Our current release www.genorocity.com an ecosystem for Coupons & Incentives.
Follow Massimo Barone:
About Axpay, SmartCard Marketing Systems Inc. (SMKG:OTC): SmartCard Marketing Sys Inc. (SMKG:OTC) is a boutique Fintech Payment Co. developing solutions & strategies for EMV & Ecommerce Fintech
Ram Palaniappan
CEO & Founder of Earnin
Ram Palaniappan is the founder and chief executive officer of Earnin. Ram spends his time finding ways to buck the status quo, creating new financial products that are not evil.
Follow Ram Palaniappan:
About Earnin: Earnin gives people access to their pay directly from their smartphones, whenever they need it
David Lighton
Founder & CEO of SendFriend
David Lighton is a CO-Founder of Lithium Finance.
Follow David Lighton:
About Lithium Finance, SendFriend, Yale University: SendFriend leverages the blockchain to make remittance transactions less expensive, faster, and more secure.
Jacob Eiting
CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat
Jacob Eiting is the CEO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
Follow Jacob Eiting:
About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Miguel Carranza
Co-Founder and CTO of RevenueCat
Miguel Carranza is the CTO and Co-Founder of RevenueCat.
Follow Miguel Carranza:
About RevenueCat: RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Benny Nachman
CEO, Founder & President of Jassby
Benny is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record in building a global bank with over 30 licenses all over the world.Managing hundreds of employees, thousands of merchants with over $6bn in volume and $120m in revenues.
Follow Benny Nachman:
About Credorax, Jassby: Jassby is a mobile payment system designed for families, kids, and teens.
Tiffany Hayden
Co-Founder of Casheer
Tiffany Hayden is a co-founder of Casheer, Inc. Casheer is a free mobile payment processing platform for merchants and consumers. Tiffany is a member of Bitcoin GNO -an online community for women involved in Bitcoin, and a member of The Michigan Peace and Liberty Coalition. She’s a homeschooling mother, liberty advocate, and fintech enthusiast.
Follow Tiffany Hayden:
About Casheer: Casheer is a multi-currency, consumer-to-merchant payment platform.
Marc Gardner
Founder, President & CEO of North American Bancard
Marc Gardner is founder, president, and CEO of North American Bancard Holdings, LLC. (NAB), a multi-faceted payment solutions provider dedicated to delivering the latest payments technology with the highest level of customer service. Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, North American Bancard ranks as one of the industry’s top 30 acquirers and was also named 2014 ISO of the Year at the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) Star Awards. From a small office in Michigan in 1992, to an established ISO, NAB processed over $16 billion in 2013. Under Gardner’s leadership, NAB now employs over 900 people at his corporate office and other locations with an additional 3,000 plus independent agents located across the country. Today, North American Bancard continues to expand both organically and through strategic acquisitions. Ernst & Young recognized Gardner as the 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year for the Central Great Lakes region. This award is considered the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs and it is recognized globally. An active philanthropist and avid supporter of the arts, Gardner serves on the Board of Directors at MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) and provides philanthropic support to numerous organizations, including: AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Friendship Circle, Detroit Public Television, Cranbrook and the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Gardner received his economics degree from University of Wisconsin. He is married and lives in Troy, Michigan
Follow Marc Gardner:
About North American Bancard: North American Bancard provides payment processing solutions such as credit, debit, check conversion, guarantee and loyalty card solutions.
Ijaz Anwar
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Payactiv
Ijaz Anwar brings extensive experience with previous tenure at GreenDot / GoBank, Unidos Financial Services, FIS, Certegy, Chex Services, and Hyatt Hotels. From running business units generating over $200 million in annual revenue to working as a bookkeeper at Dixi Cola in Dubai, Ijaz has done it. Payactiv is not just another job; it is a new frontier for Ijaz to create and manage innovative solutions that will empower millions financially worldwide. Ijaz holds a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management. He also has a minor in accounting, and though he passed the CPA exam, his entrepreneurial spirit led him away from the accounting field.
Follow Ijaz Anwar:
About Payactiv: Payactiv helps put financial wellness within reach.
Christopher White
Founder/CEO of Sneakers Apps
Follow Christopher White:
About Forbes New York Business Council, Rad Hires, Sneakers Apps: Sneakers Apps is a full-service digital product development agency focused on helping brands launch and grow their businesses.
Keith Wasserman
Founder of Domuso
Keith Wasserman is Founder at Domuso Inc.
Follow Keith Wasserman:
About Gelt, Inc.: Domuso is a next-gen financial services platform offering comprehensive payment processing solutions for multifamily properties.
Damian Langere
CEO / Co-Founder of Domuso
Damian Langere is Founder at Domuso Inc.
Follow Damian Langere:
About Domuso, Gelt Venture Capital, Gelt, Inc.: Domuso is a next-gen financial services platform offering comprehensive payment processing solutions for multifamily properties.
Nicolas Baum
Co-Founder & CEO of GiftRocket
Follow Nicolas Baum:
About GiftRocket, Tremendous: GiftRocket provides online gift cards for restaurants, bars, spas, shopping, night life and food.
Bob Youakim
Founder & CEO of Passport
Bob has a diverse background in business development, finance and operations. Bob received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois. He is a proud father of four, loves flying planes and watching old episodes of MacGyver.
Follow Bob Youakim:
About Passport: Passport specializes in enterprise business applications and payments for parking and transportation.
Darpan Saini
Co-Founder & CTO of Cloud Lending
Darpan holds a master’s degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He has previously worked with global technology companies such as IBM and Oracle in the application development division for over 4 years.He co-founded Cloud Lending Solutions with Snehal and has been closely involved in every aspect of product strategy since the inception of the company, be it design, development, delivery and customer success. He is focused on creating business value through disruptive technologies such as cloud computing and mobility.He is a passionate programmer and has also worked as a researcher in programming languages at the Carnegie Mellon University.Darpan has been a critical team member in building an agile product line made for forward looking financial institutions incorporating the S.M.A.C (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) technologies.
Follow Darpan Saini:
About Cloud Lending: Cloud Lending is a company that develops software for the financial lending industry.
Rajendra Badadare
Co-Founder & Head of Customer Success Engineering, EVP – Client Services of Cloud Lending
Rajendra Badadare (Raj) holds a master’s degree in software engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, India and a degree in Project Management from UC Berkeley, USA. He has technical leadership experience of 16 years working with Oracle, USA. Prior to Oracle, Raj worked as a professor of computer engineering in India.As Co-founder and Head of Customer Success Engineering division, Raj is responsible for forming a strong and reliable Customer Success Engineering team for Cloud Lending Solutions. He is responsible for customer satisfaction and to improve customer’s overall experience. He believes that a satisfied customer is worth much more than millions of dollars spent in advertising.Raj is an avid lover of the game of cricket and has been a coach of USA’s U-15 national cricket team.
Follow Rajendra Badadare:
About Cloud Lending: Cloud Lending is a company that develops software for the financial lending industry.
Roy Sosa
Chairman & Co-Founder of Rev Worldwide
Roy Sosa is the Chairman and CEO of Rev Worldwide.
Follow Roy Sosa:
About MPOWER Ventures, Rev Worldwide, The World Economic Forum: Fintech company focused on developing payment product innovations around the world leveraging a proprietary processing platform.
Bertrand Sosa
President & Co-Founder of Rev Worldwide
Bertrand Sosa is the Co-Founder and President of Rêv.
Follow Bertrand Sosa:
About Rev Worldwide: Fintech company focused on developing payment product innovations around the world leveraging a proprietary processing platform.
Sean Engelking
Co-Founder and CEO of Starship
Follow Sean Engelking:
About Starship: Starship is mobile health savings account (HSA) with automated investing built for humans.
Yogi Yoganathan
Co-Founder of Remitbee Money Transfer and Currency Exchange
Follow Yogi Yoganathan:
About Founder Institute, Remitbee Money Transfer and Currency Exchange: Remitbee Provides consumer and business money transfer and currency exchange service
Stas Matviyenko
Founder & CEO of Allset
Founder of Allset.
Follow Stas Matviyenko:
About Allset: Marketplace for restaurants and local diners. Online ordering and contactless solutions to serve customers commission-free.
Anna Polishchuk
CDO & Co-Founder of Allset
Anna Polishchuk is COO at Advice Wallet.
Follow Anna Polishchuk:
About Allset: Marketplace for restaurants and local diners. Online ordering and contactless solutions to serve customers commission-free.
Honor Gunday
CEO & Founder of Paymentwall
Honor Gunday is the founder and CEO of Paymentwall. Before launching Paymentwall, Gunday was the CEO of OutCubator, a virtual incubator that launched innovative startups such as Adperk.com (incentivized video advertising platform), MiNeeds (services marketplace), Rofo.com (a search engine), and Zurna.com (a Turkish social network). While working on Zurna, he and his team pioneered virtual currency payments by integrating with various mobile and offline payment methods to monetize the userbase. Honor started his professional career as a program manager at Expedia.com. He worked with 12 cruiselines and unified them on a single platform and launched the initial version of the Cruise product, creating one of the world’s largest cruise agency. Gunday graduated with a B.S in Technology Management from Stanford University and speaks fluentl English, French, Spanish and Turkish.
Follow Honor Gunday:
About FasterPay, Paymentwall, Terminal3: Paymentwall is a global payments platform which provides 150 local payment methods, incl. credit cards and e-wallets, in 200+ countries.
Charles Shrem
Founder of Crypto.IQ
Charles “Charlie” Shrem IV (born November 25, 1989) is an American entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate. He co-founded the now-defunct startup company BitInstant, and the investment company Intellisys Capital. He is a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation, and formerly served as vice chairman. In December 2014 he was sentenced to two years in prison for aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money-transmitting business related to the Silk Road marketplace. He was released from prison around June 2016.
Follow Charles Shrem:
About Bitcoin Foundation, Crypto.IQ: Come join us for the ultimate insider’s guide to investing in cryptocurrencies with confidence, by Charlie Shrem and Randall Oser.
Ben Lyon
Co-Founder & CEO of Hover
Ben Lyon is the Co-Founder & CEO at Hover Developer Services, Inc.
Follow Ben Lyon:
About DFS Lab, Hover: We unlock commerce by making mobile money accessible to developers.
Vishal Agarwal
Founder & CEO of ItsaCheckmate
Vishal Agarwal serves as a Founder & CEO at ItsaCheckmate.
Follow Vishal Agarwal:
About Forbes Technology Council, ItsaCheckmate: ItsaCheckmate is a leading service in integrating 3rd party delivery platforms directly into POS systems.
Christina Apatow
CEO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
Christina is obsessed with building the future and solving complex problems. She speaks on AI, digital transformation, customer experience, and human centered design. Christina is elected to the Airport Council International Steering Group for Marketing and Customer Experience. Prior to FetchyFox, Christina was VP Client Solutions for API.AI/DialogFlow (exit Google 2016) where she helped build the successful AI company. Christina led BD, sales and served as the main technical point of contact for the company from their launch in September 2014. Christina also worked at Lockheed Martin in Ballistic Missile Defense, Satellite Systems and VR. She has a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and is deeply passionate about painting, and Jiu Jitsu.
Follow Christina Apatow:
About Airports Council International – Aci World, FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Cha Li
CTO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
Follow Cha Li:
About FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Cathrine W. Andersen
Co-Founder, CEO of Corpay One
Cathrine Andersen is the co-founder and CEO at Roger.
Follow Cathrine W. Andersen:
About Corpay One: Corpay One is a leading company card and bill pay solution for small-and-medium-sized businesses.
Steve LaBella
CEO and Founder of BILLMO, LLC
Follow Steve LaBella:
About BILLMO, LLC: BillMo is a Latin American Mobile Wallet focused on the receive side of a Money Transfer enabling the recipient to spend money digitally.
Dana Love
Founder, CEO of Radpay
Dana Love is CEO and a founder of Radpay, and the cryptoeconomic advisor to a number of financial and real estate blockchain ICOs. First involved in blockchain work in 2011, Love holds a PhD in economics (The University of Glasgow, highest honors), an MBA in marketing (Harvard Business School, Baker Scholar), and a BS in physics (University of Richmond, Phi Beta Kappa). Notable successes include BrightDawn (4 consecutive years of 125% annual growth), founding VoIP pioneer Metacloud Communications (sold to Intelogistics), Astyra (led during three consecutive years of top 5 growth in the Virginia market), turnaround success at ADC’s Enhanced Services Division (increased revenue to $101 million before sale to SS8 Networks) and Hatch (reversed three years of declining sales). Love started coding as a youth in MORTRAN and ALGOL68G, and has co-founded five businesses with four successful exits, including Cisco Capital-backed Metacloud and Warburg Pincus-backed Radnet, and have led divisions of public companies including GTE (now Verizon), Prosodie Interactive (now CapGemini) and ADC. Significant experience in both public sector and enterprise markets for US and international businesses and notable experience leading sales teams and solutions teams in systems integration, network outsourcing, virtualization, and infrastructure management. Consistently recognized for spearheading innovation and growth, and mentoring high performing teams. Love’s research is in public policy. His dissertation Essays on Liquidity in Financial Markets suggested a policy role for lenient central-bank lending during financial disruptions, and his more recent research studies the impact of blockchain and big data on emerging economies. Some past technology efforts include building the first cloud-based ERP system in the mid-90s, development of the first carrier-grade VoIP and unified communications platforms in the world at GTE, now Verizon, and early work in big data systems, as an Oracle partner. Love’s work in big data, machine learning, blockchain, and VoIP has been written about in Wired, Oracle’s Profit Magazine, the Financial Times, and Telephony Magazine. He has won a variety of awards, including (twice) the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, (twice) inclusion on the INC500 or (six times) INC5000, Top Forty Under 40 (where he was called “a mathematical genius”), the Financial Times Global Telecoms Award for Internet Technology, and the ADC Engineering Excellence Award.
Follow Dana Love:
About Radpay: Radpay is a developer of an online payment platform designed to provide merchant payment services.
Mike Wior
CEO & Co-Founder of Omnivore
Responsible for the overall vision of Omnivore. Expert in cloud solutions, technology and business initiatives, with career successes at Wells Fargo Bank and company-critical consulting projects for clients including Adobe, Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Google, and Intel.
Follow Mike Wior:
About Omnivore: Omnivore offers a point-of-sale integration API allowing uniform access to the POS systems.
Shaker Rawan
Founder, CEO of 4Cube
Shaker is the founder of 4Cube Global providing Mobile Payments for the Underserved. Shaker was previously Vice President – Digital Assets at Strevus Inc. and ran TD Securities’ Global Operations teams for Client Onboarding, AML, Security Data Management and Settlement Instructions. Prior to his role at TD, Shaker was a Management Consultant with Deloitte Consulting and has worked as CEO of Mango, a financial services company operating out of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
Follow Shaker Rawan:
About 4Cube, Strevus: 4Cube provides mobile payments for the unbanked and underbanked consumers
Michael Faye
CEO, Co Founder of Taptap Send
Michael is co-founder of GiveDirectly, Segovia, and Taptap Send. He has worked extensively in enterprise technology as an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company, with international governments at the United Nations Millennium Project, and operating large-scale field projects while earning his PhD in Business Economics from Harvard. Michael also holds a BA from Harvard in Mathematics and Classics (although he didn’t know Segovia is an aqueduct) and was recognized as a top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy.
Follow Michael Faye:
About GiveDirectly, Segovia, Taptap Send: Taptap Send is an app that lets immigrants send money back home.
Junaid Shams
CEO, Co-Founder of Rooam
Junaid is a serial entrepreneur and physician. Currently, Junaid is the CEO and co-founder of Rooam, a mobile payment platform that lets guests open, view, and pay their bar tab or restaurant bill directly from their phone. Junaid has received numerous national recognitions, including Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Top 25 entrepreneurs under 25” and Under30CEO’s “Top 30 Most Influential Entrepreneurs under 30.” His start-ups have also been featured by Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Entrepreneur magazine.
Follow Junaid Shams:
About Rooam: A contactless payment solution for the hospitality, sports, and entertainment industry
Joe Edgar
Founder of TenantCloud
Joe Edgar originally hails from Chiloquin, Oregon and is an experienced entrepreneur and investor who bought his first real estate property at 14 years of age. At age 17 he co-founded Modern Homes Inc., a company in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which he sold in 2001. Joe founded Edgar Investment in 2003 as a property holding company for his investments. In 2004 he founded McLaughlin Company, focused on real estate development of new and renovated residential homes in Eugene, OR. In 2005 he founded Fairent.com, which provided online property management services. In 2007 Joe founded EI Investments, a $10 million venture fund focused on providing debt and equity to early stage companies in OR and TX. In 2008 Joe joined Governor Perry’s office and managed $487 Million in state authority with a focus on early stage and emerging companies. In 2011 Joe joined Commissioner Staples in advising, operating and deploying the J4T Venture Fund, which is a $46.5 million investment fund focused on Texas’ early stage companies. Joe is also a member of the US Treasury SSBCI Venture Capital Working Group, which works to bring best practices for early-stage investment throughout the U.S. In 2014, Joe founded TenantCloud.com, which is a cloud-based marketplace involving tenants, landlords, and servicepros. Joe holds a Bachelors of Science with a focus in Economics from the University of Oregon, with high honors, an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management and is a Kauffman Fellow. Joe is also active in the community as a member of the Central Texas Angel Network and volunteers time with Community Tax Center helping low income families file their tax returns.
Follow Joe Edgar:
About TenantCloud: Rental Accounting and Management Made Easy
Colin Brechbill
Founder/CEO of RentMoji™
Rentmoji™ is Colin Brechbill’s latest platform release, the first institutional level property management platform with absolutely zero door fees. Designed for larger scale operators that take advantage of the entire management vertical. By strategically partnering with merchant service providers Rentmoji™ is able to extend Rentmoji™ Rewards to residents for doing what they already do…pay their rent. This reward program creates incentives for on time payments, resident loyalty and resident retention. Colin Brechbill is the architect and creator of several proprietary technologies created to increase operational efficiency and scale for the single family rental space. Colin has successfully launched several platforms that provide streamlined efficiency in the acquisition, construction rehab, property management and maintenance verticals of the single family rental space
Follow Colin Brechbill:
About RentMoji™: Rentmoji™ is a robust single source property management solution for residential rental properties.
Anbu Gounder
Co-Founder & CEO of MinkasuPay
Anbu Gounder is a Co-Founder of Minkasu, a seed funded mobile payment startup in the Silicon valley. Most recently, Anbu was CFO of Dapper, an online display optimization company, which was acquired by Yahoo for $55 million. Prior to Dapper, Anbu was VP of Finance & Administration at Efficient Frontier. Efficient Frontier was a leading online marketing (search, display and social) optimization company with over $1 billion advertising spend under management and with operations in 7 countries. Efficient Frontier was acquired by Adobe in 2011 for $400 million. Anbu’s prior experience includes management roles at XPFLOW Software, Elance/Upwork and Junglee/Amazon.com. Anbu received a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Madras, India and an MBA from the University of Texas. He is also a Chartered Accountant, Cost & Management Accountant, and Company Secretary.
Follow Anbu Gounder:
About MinkasuPay: MinkasuPay is a mobile payment solution that uses the smartphone as an authentication device to make payments on any device and any channel.
Arcady Lapiro
CEO & Founder of Agora
Arcady CEO & Co-Founder of Agora Services was back in 2000 a founding member and member of the Executive Committee of the successful Group ProCapital – Fortuneo France & Belgium (2000-2008) acting as its Head of Compliance, Legal & Risk and co-responsible of the business development. From its creation to 2008, Fortuneo-ProCapital grew to more than 600,000 retail European clients, and over 40B$ Assets under custody with more than 40 institutional clients as Deutsche Bank Belgium, ING Direct Banque, etc. Arcady was instrumental in the sale of the Group in 2006 to Credit Mutuel Arkea. Arcady moved then to New York where he worked as an independent strategy consultant in the banking and financial sectors for European clients and mostly as a Senior Advisor to Blackfin Capital Partners for their growth funds and as a Venture Partner for Blackfin Fintech Fund.
Follow Arcady Lapiro:
About Agora: Agora Services is a provider of digital platform banking solutions.
John Nagro
Co-Founder and CTO of Dockwa
John Nagro is the Principal Software Engineer at edX.
Follow John Nagro:
About Dockwa: Dockwa is a unified marina reservation platform that connects boaters and marinas for all of their reservation needs.
Yitz Mendlowitz
Co-Founder of PAAY
Yitz Mendlowitz is the Co-Founder of PAAY.
Follow Yitz Mendlowitz:
About PAAY: PAAY provides mobile payment solutions for card processors, merchants and consumers.
Andrey Morozov
Founder & CEO of Payment.Ninja
Founder at Payment.Ninja.
Follow Andrey Morozov:
About CardQL, FinHub Global, Payment.Ninja: Payment.Ninja is an online payment gateway that accepts Visa and MasterCard.
Mike Little
CEO and Founder of BYTE
Follow Mike Little:
About BYTE: BYTE is changing the way restaurants understand and connect with their customers.
Chunbo Huang
CEO, Founder & Chairman of the Board of Citcon
Follow Chunbo Huang:
About Citcon: Citcon is a mobile payment network that enables global merchants to accept payments from consumers.
Gregory Goehner
Co-Founder and Interim CEO and President of HumansFirst
Co-Founder at HumansFirst Technology. Launched HER® powered by ColdSmoke, a patent pending SaaS platform for mapping natural language (voice or text) to web services APIs. M&A, Fundraising and IPO success. Interests include taking products to market, leading early stage business development efforts, international sales, marketing and strategic growth. Specialties: AI monetization, business development, fundraising, strategic planning, sales team leadership, marketing
Follow Gregory Goehner:
About HumansFirst: HumansFirst develops SaaS platform for mapping natural language to web services APIs.
Yada Schneider
Co-Founder and CTO of HumansFirst
Yada Schneider is the co-founder and CTO of HumansFirst Technology.
Follow Yada Schneider:
About HumansFirst: HumansFirst develops SaaS platform for mapping natural language to web services APIs.
Serge Elkiner
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of YellowPepper
Follow Serge Elkiner:
About YellowPepper: YellowPepper provides mobile banking and payment solutions to financial institutions in the Latin American region.
Andrew Jamison
CEO and Co-Founder of Extend
Passionate GM with a bias for action and results operating at the intersection of electronic payments, cloud ecosystems and mobility to identify new business opportunities. Client centric approach to innovation with a track record of building, launching and growing best in class payment and lending platforms that enable small businesses and large corporations to create real savings and drive productivity gains into existing user experiences
Follow Andrew Jamison:
About Extend: Extend is the only digital card platform compatible with every commercial card, designed to modernize the way payments are made and managed.
Rom Krupp
Founder & CEO of onedine
Rom Krupp is the CEO of MarketingVitals.com, a provider of analytics software for the restaurant industry.For over 20 years, he’s worked with hundreds of restaurant groups to design and implement solutions to their most critical business needs. He was recently named BIG’s 2015 Executive of the Year.
Follow Rom Krupp:
About onedine: onedine is pioneering guest-side technology solutions for the restaurant and hospitality industries
Talya Elitzer
Co-Founder, CEO of Bounce (Godmode Music)
Follow Talya Elitzer:
About Bounce (Godmode Music): Bounce (Godmode Music) is a music company that has developed bounce, an app that helps keep track of song demos.
Nick Sylvester
Co-Founder, CCO of Bounce (Godmode Music)
Follow Nick Sylvester:
About Bounce (Godmode Music): Bounce (Godmode Music) is a music company that has developed bounce, an app that helps keep track of song demos.
Florent Breton
CEO & Co-Founder of Acquire App
Florent Breton is the CEO and Co-Founder of Acquire App.
Follow Florent Breton:
About Acquire App: Sell a curated selection of products through stunning checkout pages with embedded checkout.
Maxime Pruvost
Co-Founder and CTO of Acquire App
Maxime Pruvost is the Co-Founder and CTO of Acquire App.
Follow Maxime Pruvost:
About Acquire App: Sell a curated selection of products through stunning checkout pages with embedded checkout.
Cooper Harris
Founder & CEO of Klickly
Cooper Harris is a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Klickly, an A.I. impulse-payments platform. Emerging as a pivotal figure in the Los Angeles tech scene, Cooper has been nominated for Google’s “Young Innovator” award, L’Oreal’s “Digital Woman of the Year,” Cartier’s “Women’s Initiative Award” and named by Adobe as a “Top Thought-Leader” at Cannes Lions. Cooper is a contributor to Forbes and HuffPost and has been featured in Inc., Entrepreneur, Mashable, and Women2.0 and more. Cooper is a favorite speaker at international summits including CES, Cannes Lions, SXSW, ShopTalk, Sundance, Los Angeles TechWeek, London Tech Conference, and more, speaking on MarTech / Retail Tech / FinTech, fostering women in STEM, and disrupting the status quo using technology/innovation.
Follow Cooper Harris:
About Klickly, NextGen Venture Partners: Klickly – a full-stack, data software platform that enables distributed commerce
Scott Orlinsky
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer of Everyware
Scott recognized from the initial conversations that Everyware was a vision larger than ourselves.Scott is high-energy and has a deep passion to inspire people with Everyware vision. Determined to hold ourselves to higher standards Scott remains all purpose driven and always focused on the outcome.
Follow Scott Orlinsky:
About Everyware, Everyware, Walmart: Everyware provides a secure, user-friendly payment collection and two-way messaging platform.
John MacIlwaine
CEO & Co-Founder of Highnote
Follow John MacIlwaine:
About Bay1, Highnote: Highnote is the world’s most modern card platform, purpose-built to grow customer loyalty, engagement, and revenue.
Gaurav Aggarwal
Co-Founder of Sleek
Follow Gaurav Aggarwal:
About Google, Sleek: Priority Lane, with one line of code
Matt Draper
Co-Founder and COO of Noble
Matt Draper is the co-founder and COO of Noble.
Follow Matt Draper:
About Noble: The first consumer-centric mobile ordering solution to make on-premise experiences better.
Eric Rawn
Founder & CEO of Fetch Mobile, LLC
Eric is the Founder & CEO of Fetch Mobile, LLC. Prior to Fetch, Eric has been successful as Founder and CEO for many established companies in various fields of the technology industry, including BCT Consulting, Inc., Xobee Communications, Green Planet, Bulldog Internet. He has also been instrumental in the start-up of other organizations such as Electronic Recyclers & Addicted.com A graduate of California State University, Fresno, Craig School of Business, Eric travels extensively between Northern and Southern California for both business and pleasure.
Follow Eric Rawn:
About BCT Consulting, Inc., Bulldog Internet, Fetch Mobile, LLC, Xobee Networks: Fetch is a mobile app modernizing the valet industry through easy payment exchange and one-click parking/fetching via smartphone.
Anthony Reynolds
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of REFILL
Follow Anthony Reynolds:
About REFILL: REFILL THE SMARTEST WAY TO MANAGE YOUR ORDERS AND DATA
Oliver Convertini
Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer of REFILL
Follow Oliver Convertini:
About REFILL: REFILL THE SMARTEST WAY TO MANAGE YOUR ORDERS AND DATA
Jim Gibbs
Co-Founder, CEO of Meter Feeder
Jim Gibbs is the Founder at Meter Feeder.
Follow Jim Gibbs:
About Meter Feeder: Meter Feeder provides a low cost payment and enforcement solution for small to mid-sized governments.
Daniel Lopretto
Co-Founder, CTO of Meter Feeder
Follow Daniel Lopretto:
About Meter Feeder: Meter Feeder provides a low cost payment and enforcement solution for small to mid-sized governments.
Ken Kruszka
CEO / Founder of SnapCheck
Ken is a FinTech and Mobile Payments pioneer, who holds the distinction of being the first person to send $1 around the world by mobile. In addition to being an accomplished executive, leader, and entrepreneur, Ken also advises early-stage companies looking to establish product-market fit and accelerate growth on a global scale. Ken leads SnapCheck in revolutionizing business-to-business payments: eliminating $50 Billion in costs, removing $20 Billion in fraud. Previously, as co-founder and CEO of m-Via, Ken grew the company into an industry-recognized leader in mobile financial services and brought the company to cash-flow positive before leading m-Via through an acquisition by Boom.
Follow Ken Kruszka:
About Cornell Tech, Founder Institute, SnapCheck, U.S. Faster Payments Council, Village Capital: SnapCheck is the easiest, fastest, safest way to pay anyone anywhere
Andrew Robbins
CEO & Co-Founder of Paytronix Systems
Andrew Robbins is the CEO and Co-Founder of Paytronix Systems.
Follow Andrew Robbins:
About Paytronix Systems: Paytronix helps restaurants and retail drive incremental sales by creating guest loyalty.
Sam Pitroda
Founder & Owner of C-sam
Sam Pitroda is the Owner, C-SAM, Inc.
Follow Sam Pitroda:
About alpha-En, C-sam, Department of Telecommunications ( DOT ): C-SAM creates enterprise-grade mobile wallets for payment and non-payment transactions.
Brandon Cavalier
CEO & Co-Founder of Carpay
Follow Brandon Cavalier:
About Carpay: Lending enablement platform for BHPH
Nick Swezey
CTO, Co-Founder of Carpay
Follow Nick Swezey:
About Carpay: Lending enablement platform for BHPH
