Give Plus

Give Plus is Paypal for social micropayments and givings. By combining popular social actions with micropayments we monetize users emotions.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Internet / Web Services
  • Location Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded April 2012
  • Employees 5
  • Website GiveaHeart.com

Company Summary

Give Plus is symbiosis of Micropayment system and Social integration. We aggregate user's micropayments (1 cent - $5) in order to decrease Visa\Mastercard interchange commission %. It empowers social media economics enabling microgiving\causing of user-generated content and micro-purchasing of digital content online. Our goal is monetization of users emotions and building of social payments graph out of Facebook, Twitter, Google+ social graphs.

Team

  • Igor Khmel
    CEO

    - Stanford MBA ’11
    - Masters in physics and journalism
    - ex-McKinsey, Citadel Investment
    - All-Ukrainian High School CS Olympiad Winner
    - founded newspaper
    - strategy consultant for one of top-30 global banks in alternative payment systems

  • Vladimir Lebedev
    CTO

    - 20 years in IT/15 as CTO
    - ex-CTO of Russian stock exchange, Orange, Lucent
    - BS in math
    - Made first public Internet hub in Russia in 1990 (FidoNet)

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